Hello, and welcome to Brawl in the Family!
What…the heck…IS this?
I’m glad you asked. Brawl in the Family is a comic strip centering on Kirby and by extension, many famous Nintendo characters that have appeared in the Smash Bros games. There are also cameos from other titles as well.
How did this horrific monstrosity ever come into existence?
Great question! The strip began as a series of doodles during one of my many art history classes in college. Eventually, they sort of merged with my notes in my disorganization. To this day, I still think King Dedede built the Baldacchino.
Yick. So why’d you have to slap it on the internet and subject the rest of the world to it?
I was bored one night and doodled up six comics, then put them online on a message board on IGN. From there, people seemed to enjoy them, so I put them up at a few other locations, such as GameFAQs. It was there that I found a host, and Chris was able to design the site for me, so here it is.
So there are several people to blame for this ordeal.
It began as a comic about the Kirby characters, but once I added the Smash Bros cast (and Kirby’s interaction with them), the scope of the strip could expand significantly.
How did you manage to mangle these classic designs to such an intense degree?
Brawl in the Family is drawn in Adobe Photoshop (99% of the time) on a Wacom Graphire drawing tablet.
Have you no shame? These aren’t even your characters!
That’s a good point. Here is the needed legal mumbo-jumbo for this strip:
All Kirby and video game characters included in this comic are based on characters that are the property of their respective copyright owners (mostly Nintendo Co. Ltd. and Masahiro Sakurai–keep up the good work, guys!). This is a parody strip. I did not create the original characters, merely these bizarre interpretations of them.
OK, enough. Â Please bore me with some technical stuff.
Brawl in the Family is best viewed on a computer, specifically one that can display 1024×768 resolution or higher.  You can use pretty much any browser you want and that should work just fine. This site was made using Wordpress and Comicpress.
Brawl in the Family is:
Matthew Taranto (TriforceBun) – Comic Artist/Writer, Site Graphics
Chris Seward (fiftyeighthens) – Web Design/Maintenance/Updates, Creative Consultant
Feel free to contact us regarding just about anything at the following email address:
staff (at) brawlinthefamily (dot) com. (It’s just written like that to avoid spam robots.)
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Our Advertisement Philosophy
For a while now, we’ve been using Project Wonderful to provide our site ads. Project Wonderful is a big improvement in many ways over our old ad-provider, and we’d like to take this opportunity to share these ways with you.
Project Wonderful gives us the ability to personally approve of each ad, and the ads come from quality sites. We’ve taken serious advantage of this approval feature. We will be mainly following the below criteria when deciding whether to approve an ad:
1. Is the site worth your time?
2. Is the site generally appropriate for a wide audience? (Nothing that couldn’t be considered PG-13.)
We will not be approving ads for sites that we don’t think are worth your time. We will also not be approving ads for sites that have a substantial amount of inappropriate content. We’ve had to turn down plenty of ads so far for these reasons. With these policies in mind, you can expect that the quality of our advertisers will be high, so give ‘em a look!
We are confident that Project Wonderful will enable the ads on our site to be a point of interest, something that our readers can benefit from. We hate bad ads – that’s why we won’t be running them.
- Chris and Matthew