Pepper&Carrot


Pepper&Carrot is an open source webcomic series by French artist. The series consists of small episodes about teenage witch Pepper and her cat Carrot. With its translations into 28 different languages and violence free stories it aims to be accessible for everyone.
Revoy creates the series entirely with free software, such as Krita and Inkscape, making the Krita source files for each image available for download.

License and derivations

All artwork is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Revoy explicitly encourages fanart and other derivative works.
In 2016 French publisher Glénat added a bundle with episodes 1 through 11 to their catalog, to print and distribute the comic in France. Revoy was consulted to ensure the colours and quality of the print are as he envisioned it. The publication has no effect on the license of the webcomic. In April 2017 the second volume of the book, including the episodes 12 to 21, was published by Glénat. There is also a printed version of the Bretonic version of the first ten episodes by publisher Ar Gripi, as well as a German printed version by publisher Popcom.
In 2016, the Morevna team started a crowdfunding campaign for a motion comic version of episode 6. The animation was done based on the original source files with free software like Krita, Blender, Papagayo-NG and RenderChan. The film was released in June 2017 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Revoy was not associated with the production, but appreciated the project.
There are at least four different video games based on Pepper&Carrot in development.

List of episodes

Revoy aimed to release a new episode approximately once every month, but has not been able to do so.

Funding

Revoy aims to change the comic book industry by eliminating intermediate steps in the production process. Though Pepper&Carrot is free, he encourages people to support him on the Patreon crowdfunding platform, in the form a small amount of money per episode that is released. Patreon takes a commission of 5%, in addition to any credit card fees. This is significantly less than a traditional chain where the publisher, distributors and retailers each claim a part of the profit. People donating monthly some amount on Patreon to Pepper&Carrot – are named on the bottom of the comics. As of May 2019, 816 people donate a total of per month, allowing David Revoy to work full time on Pepper&Carrot.

Origin & Production

David Revoy explain origin of Pepper & Carrot and world of Hereva in 2014:
He uses the iteration method to create new epsiodes:

Board game

created a board game based on episode 6 of the comic. Just like the webcomic the game is available under a free license, and its rulebook has instructions in English, Dutch, French and Spanish.