Life with Kurami

So I just found out this comic ended ended recently. It kinda bummed me out, so let's have a thread about it.

I heard the creator of this strip was a pretty cool guy.

Does that mean well finally get porn of it

We already have that if you know where to look.

You know. This was one of the few strips that most of Sup Forums refused to do porn of. The author was a nice guy.

Yes, but it's over now, so it should be fair game, yeah?

I really don't know. Maybe?

Why are you so hung up on this?

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He is, which is why I was pretty bummed to hear it go. It's rare to have both the creator and the work being so genuinely nice.

On the bright side, he said that he's working on a bunch of other projects and that LWK is getting a book, so I guess it's not too bad. Maybe he can turn it into a book series rather than a daily strip.

>You will never have Jim Davis draw fanart of your OC's

Why live

The fucker gets art from all over. He has a surprising amount of connections.

A comic that came and went without controversy, that shouldn't be rare, but it is.

What was the ending? Did some story thing happen or did it just stop? I know it was mostly gag a day, last I read it.

Because the embargo was bizarre from start to finish. I understand the rationale, I just don't understand why it was followed so damn closely (I'm not even that interested in the porn, I just want the anomaly of good behavior to go away).

Literally who?

Is this the non-furry equivalent of furries that spends a shitload of money for numerous artists to draw their fursonas for attention?

Jim Davis is the creator of Garfield

I know that, I mean the Loud House-bait character.

Actually no, these artists actually give these arts to him because they think he's cool.

Hell, Jim Davis invited him to Paws, Inc. TWICE and drew the characters from both LWK and his new project of pic related.

>The Loud House-bait character

Funny enough he's friends with Savino and even got art from him, too. I wonder how he felt about the recent scandal with him.

are the people who make these threads 30 year old single mothers or do they just have the same taste as milquetoast highschool dropouts

It was a week long arc about Ana feeling down cause she felt that she spends so much time at work that she might miss out on a lot of Kurami's "first" milestones. It also brought back Ana's old friend Bree Kay after a year-long absence from the strip.

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And that's the end.

Kinda interesting that the strip was so simple yet really felt like Ana and Kurami lived right next door.

>draw a fat big tiddy mom with big sexy hair
>but don't draw porn of it you guys

I'm sure the guy's a sweetheart but c'mon.

Cool, thanks for posting the strips, famiglia. The first real word (and it being "mama") seems like a great place to stop actually.

>other projects

Got any ideas on what they are? Would love for Sup Forums to keep tabs on this guy's stuff.

I'm sad to see the comic go, but it'll always be with us in our hearts

and in Google's search results

I know that he's got a couple of OCs outside LWK. Chances are he's probably working on something with Pen and Ink.

He is. He's already making a comic compilation book and is going to try to get it funded through kickstarter.

What amazes me about Pen and Ink is that they've only been around for 5 months and already have generated 10k followers when it took LWK 3 years to get the same amount.

thats kinda sad
i guess he was done with the idea

i will miss them titties and slice of life momventures

>nobody still has explained who this literal who or what their seemingly boring comic is

this makes me want to slit my wrists, i cant even get 20 people to look at my facebook page, why does everyone give a shit about this mediocre art

What's there to not get? It's a newspaper strip about a single mom raising a child.

Because his work is just simple. It doesn't go out of the way to make thought provoking humor or DEEPEST LORE/SJW media that'd bring out a cancerous following. People can go in and read what they want, get a little chuckle and go on about their day. In this day and age, it's kind of a rare trait to have that associated with ones work.

Also with the addition of , people are attracted to positivity, so it's brings the value of the work up more.

Some user posted a story he had with his editor one day about LWK. I wonder if anyone knows what I'm talking about.

I don't suppose any of you fine Sup Forumsmrades might have a complete collection set up for download yet. I hate having to go through facebook.

There's people that can draw way better than him and are most likely way nicer than him and yet they go on starving and devoid of any appreciation

Seems like a literal who that just happen to fall into the right place at the right time for easy success

The fact he's such a Kirby fan is what makes him god tier in my book.

duuuuude I used to be in a facebook groupchat with the creator back in 2014!

Attitude and a good work ethic goes a long way, user. He has the fanbase he has because he's a genuinely kind person that want to make people smile, and is willing to work to achieve to that. No one likes an asshole, despite what people tell you.

was he as nice as these Sup Forumsmrades say he is?

>There's people that can draw way better than him and are most likely way nicer than him and yet they go on starving and devoid of any appreciation

The same could be said about every artist in the industry. But with an attitude like that no one will get where they want to be cause no one wants to associate with egotistical shitheads.

His situation reminds me of the Best Friends Play channel; they built up their fan base slowly, and even now they don't have nearly as many subscribers as a lot of other channels, but all of their videos get consistent views and they have guaranteed support on whatever new project they're working on.

In Dee's case, LWK built a solid foundation that will help with his other works.

be nice to who??? if no one likes or comments on your art and its barren, its because you're an asshole? ok

Welp, now I know why Davis employs ghostwriters to draw Garfield....

That may be because you don't expose yourself enough for others to notice your work. You can't expect success if no one knows who you are.

Is this the first time Davis drew canon black characters?

It makes me wonder if he's ever going to do anything with these OC's. Apparently they're some of his earlier characters.

Embargo-user is making it seem like it was this huge deal. It wasn't. It was just very loud shitposters going off on a very small thread, with a very obscure subject. I mean, when you got people like Tentaclebot going off like that, why would you take it seriously?

Anyways, very few people, small even for Sup Forums, knew about the character, so that coupled with the shitposting, made it seem like nobody was drawing because of an "embargo" or whatever.

>Because his work is just simple. It doesn't go out of the way to make thought provoking humor or DEEPEST LORE/SJW media that'd bring out a cancerous following. People can go in and read what they want, get a little chuckle and go on about their day. In this day and age, it's kind of a rare trait to have that associated with ones work.

Not only this, but the medium the strip was in is also a major factor to this. The comic was a newspaper strip. A basically dead industry. Only cartoonists above 30-40 have made it in and have been doing it for decades. The guy's 22 And can say his work was in physical print next to Garfield. It was obscure, yes, but that's how it was able to generate a bigger audience, because I'm sure if it was just a webcomic it wouldn't have generated a bigger audience nor attract attention from big time artists.

The rare factor that a nobody pushed out a big time comic like non sequitor out of its paper is a big deal in the industry.

>be nice to who??

If you have to ask that question, you won't get anywhere.

What a bunch of pussies

I just wanna know why the comic feels so comfy and how Ana was presented as a genuine character.

Most massively busty/fat female characters have flat personalities whose bodies are the joke of them. Yet Ana somehow managed to be more than that.

>page is a void
>its your fault because you didnt respond to comments
THERE ARE NO COMMENTS
where did i lose you

I think it has something to do with being raised by a single mom himself.

>Most massively busty/fat female characters have flat personalities whose bodies are the joke of them.

It's even more baffling when it's written by a woman, like Cathy.

I believe with a lot of Sup Forums women/moms, they usually always want more than what they have, or always dream of bigger and better things, whereas Ana was always satisfied with what she currently had, and never really wanted to amount to anything more than to just make the ones she loves happy.

She also never minded how she looked. There were probably a few strips that had her massive chest as the primary gag, but they were usually downplayed and very scarce. She comes off as a woman that has a huge rack and not a huge rack that's on a woman.

Ana is a simple woman with simple pleasures that doesn't go out of her way to be anything special, and I think it's what makes her that more endearing as a character.

>where did i lose you

By expecting people to come to you, when that's not how it works. Get out there, meet new people, be nice to everyone, and people will notice. Go to cons and shit. But simply shitposting here is not going to do you much good.

His art got a lot more confident in the end. I haven't seen this for a bit, but the linework seems significantly more clean.

He's been working on this comic for a while. It's nice to see how it evolved over the years.

To be fair regarding Cathy, that strip is from an older time when most all media aimed at women in general wasnt where it is today. And it still has a way to go.

The simple fact that it was by a woman and kept female audiences in mind was groundbreaking.

In a post Gravity Falls-era I can definitely see this concept working out. Just these three solving mysteries could be fun.

that attitude doesn't help

Why is it this exact question gets asked in every LWK thread?

Seriously, is this the guy that introduced this comic to Sup Forums in the first place? Is he mad because his attempt to start a hate mob backfired?

It wasn't really followed all that closely. Most stopped out of respect, yes, but there's still quite a few pieces floating around.

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Because positivity is important to people, especially in an age of rampant cynicalism.

Ana is too pure for this board

>Why is it this exact question gets asked in every LWK thread?

>Is he mad because his attempt to start a hate mob backfired?

Jesus, what's the backstory to this comic's association to Sup Forums?

It just randomly popped up one day and people were charmed by how wholesome the series was

People started drawing lewds of Ana and when it got to the point that the lewds were on the first page of "Life with Kurami's" Google Search, the majority of Sup Forums decided to respectfully show restraint when it comes to drawing her.