The Rabbits Next Door

Trying out single panel Honeybuns comics.

In exploring more ways to tell the stories of Baxter and the Honeybuns, I'm trying to imagine what it would be like if the rabbit family lived in the human world.

I wrote the first issue of a script for a long-form comic version in which the rabbit family moves in next door to a Black family, and Baxter becomes friends with the neighbor's kid, Gordon. It worked fine, but it started feeling like too much explanation for a simple concept.

The idea was straightforward and a bit absurd, so if I called it The Rabbits Next Door, people would get the idea from the title, even if it doesn't make sense until you read the comic.

What if I made them into single-panel comics instead of a long, drawn-out story? There's plenty you won't understand (like how come rabbits live like humans?), but you can see I'm pointing at what it's like to look and be different in a place you might not immediately belong.

In the comic book/graphic novel script, Baxter is the only rabbit in his classes and helps design cool gadgets to try and help out the school and impress other students, but they don't work well, and everyone gets upset with him. He'd try and fail to fit in for each chapter/story.

This single-panel idea is more about how crazy it would be to have extremely different neighbors than you. It comments on how we all get frustrated with our neighbors and how weird they seem to us at home and school.

What do you think? Should I do more of The Rabbits Next Door comics? 

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Concept Art And Sketches

Here are some sketches and a full-color illustration of the characters for my paying subscribers.