The Kat Box

Alrighty, I had to do away with the slide show that was on the side bar because it was using up too much bandwidth and our hosting site complained about it. Yuk. Sorry about that guys! I’ll see if the gallery has to go too, it may have to.

For those who are interested, I started a Live Journal community for Miss Grey. You can access it here.It is called the “Grey Gang” becuase that is what I keep refering to the troop of characters associated with Miss Grey within the comic.  You will have to be a member of live journal in order to post there however.

I’ll try to see what I can do as an alternative photostream to show the different galleries. For now you can access my DeviantArt page to see what I’ve put up regarding artwork.

Mike and I will be attending SugoiCon this October here in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky. We won’t have a table however, we’ll just be there at normal attendees. I think our Artist Alley days are over, we’ve moved on to bigger projects. Early next year we’ll be attending Ohayocon 2009, and I hope to be able to go to Anime Boston in May, but we’ll see what happens.

Also I have been tentatively green-lit to do a book for Schiffer Books (not a comic book mind you). I’ll annouce what will happen regarding update schedules in the future about that. It is a paying job that uses a lot of tme interviewing and researching, however I hope to keep working on both Miss Grey and Rayne of Terror.

That’s all for now, ciao

Katsu

I wonder how I get so much spam on this site. Readers don’t get to see it because I go through all the comments made before they actually get posted. Usually when I go check the comments box, it is just full of spam. grr. And naughty spam too! I read some of the titles and it makes me blush.

Miss Grey has been updating for those of you who are interested. New pages started going up last week. Rayne of Terror will be updating this week, I’m working on a page to go up today!

I’ve also updated my DA with a few goodies from Miss Grey. Today I’lll be putting up some sketches. I hope to start putting artwork up here too as soon as Mike makes galleries for them to go in!

That’s all for now, keep on drawing everyone!

Cheers,

Katsu

Miss Grey

Rayne of Terror

DeviantArt

My comic space page!

We’re back from Ikasucon 2008. It was an experience like every convention is. This year it was a  bit tame as conventions go, but the vendors room was awesome.

I was in the vendors room/artist alley again for the second year in a row. Hello to all who are checking out the website after the convention! \(^0^)/

Unlike others who went to the con, the only events I went to were the Japanese street fashion panel hosted by Ketika and Erica on Saturday night, and my own tea party that took place at 11 in the morning on Sunday. Regarding the lolita events, we had a great turn out and thank you for coming! We’ve been invited back to do events in 2009, so let’s make it bigger and better next year!

It was fun meeting new and old friend alike, Ikasucon is one of the conventions where we know a lot of the staff and attendees. I wish I would have had time to meet more of the guests that were floating around the con, but I was mostly rooted to my table on Saturday.

Speaking of the Artist Alley booth, there is one person who got a badge made and never came to pick it up! if you know this girl:

tell her to e-mail me at mangakat@gmail.com so I can mail it to her. The artist alley opened late on Sunday (it was supposed to open at 9 but instead opened at 10), and we never saw her. I have to say that this is a first time for me going home with a badge someone had commissioned.

I have had some requests for commissions at Ikasucon, if you are interested in getting a unique piece of artwork from your favorite show, let me know! I’m also on DeviantArt under the name Katsudesu. (~_^)

So now that Ikasu has pasted my hiatus on Miss Grey and Rayne of Terror will also be over. You’ll be able to read new comics starting next week!

Just for fun, people dancing for Tristan Mcavery:

Ja ne,

Katsu <3

PS: Other photos and a review of Ikasucon can be found at A Fan’s View home page.

Miss Grey has reached page #101, page #102 will be a splash page for chapter 7! Wow, chapter 7 already. I honestly didn’t thing MG would last this long when I started on it. And yet we really haven’t even gotten into teh deeper plot lines, the gang is still having fun. There is so much more to this story than what has happened so far to the Grey Gang. I almost seems like a flash in the pan compared what I have in store. But I shouldn’t be teasing readers with ideas of grandure of the upcoming plot. I just am very excited about it.

With the start of chapter 7 expect some changes to the comic. I’m always looking on ways to improve the comic, but this time I hope it will be more visible.

I’m currently working on page T1-5 for Rayne, it’s penciled in, I just need to ink and edit it.Sometimes I just get so lazy with that story, I like it, it’s goofy and MG’s cheery counterpart, but I just get lazy about putting out pages. I plan on publishing a volume of the comic at Ikasucon however, along with the third volume of MG.

I will definitely be in the artist alley at Ikasucon this year, I finally received word that I’m a confirmed artist there. This makes me very happy, but come on Ikasu staff, get your bums in gear! Waiting for months on confirmation is a bad thing. Confirm as you go along, that way you don’t have stacks to do when you get around to looking at our forms. I just home my pre-reg confirmation comes fairly soon, I live in Cincy for crying out loud, their home base!

Not to forget Ikasu’s lack of guests this year, I’m actually concerned about that. So far there are four confirmed guests, last year I think there were a few more. Guests are important b/c that is how attendees determine if the con is decent enough to go to. Every con has an artist alley and vendors room, anime screenings and video games, but it is the live events and the guests that really bring in the new blood. Ikasucon needs new blood.

Perhaps that is why Ikasu is taking place during the Four Rivers festival in Fort Wayne. With the festival going on we may get a few new people floating in out of curiousity.

Anyway, I just got the new Hamasaki Ayumi single and I’m going to go listen to it. Have I ever mentioned I’m a huge Ayu fan? I am!

Ja ne,

Katsu

Hi Everyone,

Finally the hiatus is over for MG, I started updating new pages this past Monday over at Drunk Duck. Miss Grey is rapidly approching #100, page #093 is up and I’m currently inking page #094. I’ve started using a different pen to ink everything, a Japanese brush pen that I dug out of a box while packing up my old Japan memorbilia from my stay in 2005.  Wow, it’s already been three years since I was there last, sometime I’ll have to take a quick holiday there again. I already feel my Japanese slipping out of my head! T_T

Some good news, I’m confirmed to be at Ikasucon 2008 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Ikasucon is a cozy convention that is from July 18-20th this year. I’m excited since I’m also hosting the Lolita Tea Party again! Please come visit me there at my Artist Alley table, I may have a few surprises there for you all! Also, just drop by Ikasucon period, we love to have new people there!

Mike and I have successfully moved to Cincinnati, Ohio (it was the reason for the hiatus). I’m actually from Cleveland, but I haven’t really set foot back in the state since I was six months old. Because I have some down time here, I’ve been able to draw out and edit multiple pages a day.

Which brings me to this, there will be new Rayne of Terror comics starting next Tuesday. I’m hoping to sell the new volume of ROT this year at Ikasucon, but let’s see how far I get first on it.

That’s all for now,

Cheers,

Katsu

Mike and I plan on attending Anime Central 2008 for tomorrow only. We’ll be wondering around the con with free bookmarks if you are interested! I’ll be in a Shiro-Loli outfit while Mike won’t be dressed up. You can find me at some of the Lolita panels too as an attendee.

—Later Edit—-

Line-Con ‘08 was fantastic, really, no. I drew a comic about Line-con ‘08 which you can find on my DA site, click here to read it.

Hello and welcome to my new website! If you don’t know who I am, my name is Kat (aka “Katsu”) and I write and illustrate the webcomic Miss Grey. I also write and illustrate the new web comic Rayne of Terror with my husband Mike.

I have been publishing webcomics since 2003, however Miss Grey  (MG for short) is my first real work that has lasted. I started MG in January of 2006 on this site, but in March of this year we moved it to Drunk Duck. Currently MG updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We don’t plan on changing that pattern anytime soon, however I tend to run late sometimes because the real world happens.

Our new project is Rayne of Terror (aka R.o.T) and is also hosted off of Drunk Duck. Unlike MG which has a more serious tone to the overall story, R.o.T is goofy and light hearted. Also the two comics has different methods of illustration. MG is heavily done by hand, with little extra toning or coloring and lots of traditional manga techniques. R.o.T on the other hand has more toning, is heavily edited in Photoshop (line art is scanned in and then I take it from there).

Mike and I really enjoy going to conventions, in fact we met at one! We met at Anime Central 2003, and really got to know each other while waiting in line for Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo to sign our copies of his comic. Two hours in line has lead to a happy five years together (we have only been married for less than a year). We have taken MG to Ikasucon 2007 and Ohayocon 2008, and we plan on participating in Ikasucon 2008. I had to take a two year break from comics and conventions between 2004 to 2005 because I studied abroad at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. While I lived in Japan I received my pen name “Katsu”.

Ironically, drawing webcomics was not what I thought I would be doing so seriously directly out of college. I’m a 2007 graduate of Indiana University with a double major in (takes in a breath) East Asian Language and Culture studies focusing on Japan AND Cultural Anthropology. *pants*  I’ve drawn comics as a hobby since seventh grade (so for over 11 years now).

Thank you for reading!

-Kat

The Miss Grey comic is now hosted over at Drunk Duck.  Follow this link to catch up!