Pepper&Carrot
Pepper&Carrot is an open source webcomic series. Its author is the French artist David Revoy.[1][2] The series consists of small episodes about teenage witch Pepper and her cat Carrot.[1] The comic is translated into more than 28 different languages. The stories do not contain violence. That's because Revoy wants Pepper&Carrot to be accessible for everyone.[1][2][3]
| Pepper&Carrot | |
|---|---|
| Pepper and Carrot logo since October 2015.png | |
| Author(s) | David Revoy |
| Website | www |
| Current status / schedule | Every month |
| Launch date | 10 May 2014 |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy |
Revoy says he makes the series only with free software, such as Krita and Inkscape.[4] You can download Krita source files for every image.
License
Anyone can use the images. They are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Revoy says he likes fanart and other works based on Pepper&Carrot.
List of episodes
Revoy aims to draw one episode every month.[5]
| No. | Title | Original title | Release date | Number of patrons[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Potion of Flight | 2014-05-10 | 0 | |
| 2 | Rainbow Potions | 2014-07-25 | 21 | |
| 3 | The Secret Ingredients | 2014-10-03 | 93 | |
| 4 | Stroke of Genius | 2014-11-21 | 156 | |
| 5 | Special holiday episode | 2014-12-19 | 170 | |
| 6 | The Potion Contest | Le concours de potion | 2015-03-28 | 245 |
| 7 | The Wish | Le souhait | 2015-04-30 | 245 |
| 8 | Pepper's Birthday Party | L'anniversaire de Pepper | 2015-06-28 | 354 |
| 9 | The Remedy | Le remède | 2015-07-31 | 406 |
| 10 | Summer Special | Spécial été | 2015-08-29 | 422 |
| 11 | The Witches of Chaosah | Les sorcières de Chaosah | 2015-09-30 | 502 |
| 12 | Autumn Clearout | Rangement d'Automne | 2015-10-31 | 575 |
| 13 | The Pyjama Party | La Soirée Pyjama | 2015-12-08 | 602 |
| 14 | The Dragon's Tooth | La Dent de Dragon | 2016-01-29 | 671 |
| 15 | The Crystal Ball | La Boule de Cristal | 2016-03-25 | 686 |
| 16 | The Sage of the Mountain | Le Sage de la Montagne | 2016-04-30 | 671 |
| 17 | A Fresh Start | Un Nouveau Départ | 2016-06-30 | 719 |
| 18 | The Encounter | La Rencontre | 2016-08-05 | 720 |
| 19 | Pollution | Pollution | 2016-10-26 | 755 |
| 20 | The Picnic | Le Pique-nique | 2016-12-17 | 825 |
| 21 | The Magic Contest | Le Concours de Magie | 2017-02-23 | 816 |
| 22 | The Voting System | Le système de vote | 2017-05-30 | 864 |
| 23 | Take a Chance | Saisir la chance | 2017-08-10 | 879 |
| 24 | The Unity Tree | L'Arbre de l'unité | 2017-12-15 | 810 |
| 25 | There Are No Shortcuts | 2018-05-17 | 909 | |
| 26 | Books Are Great | 2018-07-28 | 1,098 | |
| 27 | Coriander's Invention | 2018-10-31 | 1,060 | |
| 28 | The Festivities | 2019-01-24 | 960 | |
| 29 | Destroyer of Worlds | 2019-04-25 | 960 | |
| 30 | Need a Hug | 2019-09-03 | 973 | |
| 31 | The Fight | 2019-12-20 | 971 | |
| 32 | The Battlefield | 2020-03-31 | 1121 | |
| 33 | Spell of War | 2020-06-29 | 1190 | |
| 34 | The Knighting of Shichimi | 2021-03-31 | 1096 | |
Funding
Revoy wants to change the comic book industry by removing intermediate steps in the production process. Pepper&Carrot is free, but Revoy lets people support him on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You can sign up to give a small amount of money per episode that he makes. Patreon takes 5% of the money. The credit card companies take another part.[7] This is still less than a traditional comic production, where the publisher, distributors and retailers want money.
Pepper&Carrot Media
A page from the first episode, with a different design of the main character Pepper than in later episodes.
Episode 36 page 2 of Pepper&Carrot
The character Carrot in an illustration of content behind paywalls. Revoy said that "Pepper&Carrot will never ask you to pay anything or to get a subscription to get access to new content."
The character Carrot in an illustration of derivative works being created from a source work. Revoy said that "I'll never regret making Pepper&Carrot so open." and that he is happy to see other people making money from it.
Revoy in front of Glénat publications of Pepper&Carrot in September 2017. Revoy considers the Glénat publications one of many derivative works of the webcomic.
The permissive license of the webcomic Pepper&Carrot has allowed several episodes of it to be remixed into animated short films by the Morevna Project, here "The Potion Contest".
Revoy provided a map of Pepper's house to help other projects create derivative work.
Cayenne, Cumin, Pepper, Thyme and Carrot.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Revoy, David. "Philosophy - Pepper&Carrot". Archived from the original on 10 October 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Pepper & Carrot - red tabula". red tabula. Archived from the original on 10 October 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ Revoy, David. "How to add a translation or a correction - Pepper&Carrot". Archived from the original on 10 October 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ Revoy, David. "Episode 11: The Witches of Chaosah - Pepper&Carrot". Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ Moeller, Eric (17 July 2015). "The case of the witch and her cat: crowdfunding free culture - Creative". Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ The respective comic pages on www.peppercarrot.com
- ↑ "Patreon Help Center". Patreon. Retrieved 19 August 2015.