Would people confuse my stories as kid’s comics because of my simplistic style?

[abigaillmartin]

So my style is pretty simplified but it does have an amount of detail and depth that goes into it in its own right.

My comics are in fact pretty family friendly, but it doesn’t make it kid friendly either. I’d say the rest of my comics are pretty clean, Elsie, Rye and Jon. But with the simplicity of the characters would that confuse people of it being for kids?

Cracking Eggs is a comedy yes but it’s far from child friendly. It deals with some mature and dark themes and has some stuff that people may consider to be inappropriate.

(ie Eric and Winston in a gay relationship.)

I’d say Cracking Eggs would be between PG or PG-13 it’s kind of in a strange position now. I’m worried that the style will have people mistaken it for a kids comic it is definitely not.

An example here of it not being kid friendly at all

I mean my stories as a whole I’m fine with it’s just Cracking Eggs I’m worried about the most being confused with.

Would people confuse my stories for kids comics?

[Flios]

To be completely honest, just judging from your art style here, it totally gives "kid friendly vibes"
It's to be expected though, with the vibrant colors and simple rendering and style.
I respect what you draw a lot though. Keep it up!

[abigaillmartin]

Thank you so much! That’s exactly what I’m afraid of.

[abigaillmartin]

Although I do have an example of a cartoon that’s not really a kids cartoon but it looks like one. Adventure Time! It’s got jokes and humor in that show that aren’t necessarily for kids and more for adults but the vibrant colors gives off kids show vibes. It is however marketed and presented as leaning towards the older kids and adult demographic but I’m not worried about marketing my comic yet as it may never happen at this point.

[Kelheor]

Yes, this could be so. People rely on the visual information, so if the style doesn't align with what they expect of the story in their mind, they might have problem with that. As a personal example, my characters are 9-14 year old kids in the first season (the time skips every season), my style is colorful and something that a lot of people call "cute", so I got a couple of comments like "if this is a horror story what's up with kid friendly art". A quick panel with no empty talk

Welp... nothing to do here. You can still change the whole visual mood of the story to suit the heavier plot ( deeper colors, cooler angles, etc). If you like your style, there's nothing too bad about people not getting its appeal within the genre. If you think you better advance your style into something more mature, you can do that too. But it's up for you to decide, there will always be people who will have some problems with what you draw and how you draw it, so try to not lean on these opinions too much. You do you.
If you're afraid some parent on this site could think your story is a great kids comic and then will be angry at you - the probability of this is incredibly low, so don't worry

[abigaillmartin]

For Cracking Eggs: Indeed. I tend to just use dark neutrals to indicate oh this is not a fun place to be. Most of my scenes also take place at night and London is depicted as dingy and rainy. I’ll just use lightness and darkness to set the mood. Batman the animated series is a great example of giving off this vibe. Batman could be considered for kids yes but it’s more targeted to boys and it’s dark for a superhero show. Dark literally as on the colors and dark in tone. When my setting is supposed to be darker I make it darker if it’s lighter in tone I’ll give it more brighter colors.

You can read my comic to show you what I mean by this:

Read Cracking Eggs by Cila-17 | Tapas Web Comics

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