Kat Klockow

I’m sorry to announce that I am putting all comics and projects I am working on aside to help my family during a difficult time. My father’s health is failing, and helping my folks is first and foremost.

Thank you for all your support, I hope that in the future I can come back to comic making.

-Kat

Hiya all,

For those of you who live in the Cincinnati, OH/ Tri-state area I have established a new Live Journal community for both experienced and novice comic illustrators. You can check it out here: http://community.livejournal.com/cincicomics/

BTW, I made a date oopsie today. Momiji started updating today with new pages, but I accidently said December 9th (it’s really the 7th). My bad, I don’t know what calendar I was looking at before. (o_O);;

Cheers!

-Kat

First vlog! If you have any questions about the comics I’m involved with don’t hesitate to e-mail me at mangakat@gmail.com

Hello everyone!

Gosh, it has been a while since I last updated this site. I’m so sorry! In the past couple of months I have been seemingly everywhere attending conventions, interviewing the final groups of people for the book, and just editing and coding the manuscript for the Indiana University ghosts and legends book (which still doesn’t have an official title). If you are interested in any of my paranormal adventures you can find them over here: http://urbanlegendsdetective.com/

The month of November is a big one for me this year, I am participating in the NaNoMangO: drawing up and posting a comic page a day for the entire month. It’s a huge task but I have a handy “secret” weapon- Manga Studio. I am proud to say that I have been able to keep up for an entire week now, and I hope to keep the pages going.

If you want to check out the full comic, it is going up on Drunk Duck or my DeviantArt page daily. Hopefully if there is enough interest with the story, I’ll keep it going and broaden it into a full fledged webcomic!

Last weekend on the spur of the moment Mike and I went to SugoiCon 2009 in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky! It was a blast! I had the opertunity to meet a couple of awesome webcomic artists, some new and others I was already familar with:

From left to right: Jamie Hatton (In his likeness), Dan Hess (Venis Productions/ Weesh/ Angel Moxie), Richard and Shannon Townsend (Otaku-no-yen). I have previously met Hess and the Townsends at Ohayocon, but I hadn’t met Hatton before. All these guys (and Shannon) were awesome and I encourage anyone who attends conventions where they are guests at to attend their panel. (^_^)v OH, and since it was Halloween, they are all in costume (except Hatton).

Finally, my 2009 Halloween costume was this:

W007, ghostbuster. Seems fitting doesn’t it?

Anyway, that’s all for now. I’ll stick up the new pages of Momiji in a while.

Cheers,

Kat

Hello, and hoping everyone is having a good April so far! 

If you were hanging around the Barnes and Nobles up in Mason last weekend, you may have seen Mike and I shuffling around the cafe hanging colorful, framed, paintings. These are in fact my sumi-e paintings that will be displayed during the month of April. This is the first time I have had anything of mine painting-related publicly since elementary school! Another note, if you do visit this display; DO NOT TOUCH THE PAINTINGS! It isn’t that I care about finger prints on the glass, it is for the simple fact that they will fall down on you if they fall off their hangers. I’ve warned you! 

Now for pictures! 

While patrons mix their mugs of coffee with cream or sugar, they can gaze at my geraniums. 

Me with some of the paintings next to the cafe cake case. 

All these paintings are for sale, if you are interested in any of them contact me at katklockow@gmail.com

Other News: 

Earlier this week I was contacted by my editor over at Schiffer Publishing about the status of my book. The book about IU Ghosts and Urban Legends was originally slated to arrive in stores in spring of 2010 (a year from now basically) but has been moved to fall of 2010 (hopefully before October). Because of this, my deadline has been extended by a little bit. In a way I am kinda happy about this turn of events, mostly because it means more adventures of ghost hunting can be included into the book.

Well, thanks for reading this week! I’ll try to keep posting updates every week. I will be with IGT-Indy this weekend (actually tomorrow) investigating the Crump Theatre in Columbus, Indiana. Yay all night lock-in!

Cheers!

Kat 

Yes it is general updates time! There are quite a few this time around, mostly having to do with my webcomics.  

Comics:

Both of my webcomics Red Orchid Soceity and Miss Grey new pages have been put on temporary hold while I work on my Sumi-e and book projects. New pages are expected to go up on their respective sites starting Monday April 6^th for R.O.S and Tuesday April 7^th for MG-R. ROS will be updating Monday/Wednesdays while MG-R will update Tuesdays/Thursdays until further notice. Thanks for everyone who has been so patient waiting for new pages this year. My book’s deadline is July 1^st, so expect some hectic webcomic scheduling while that gets finished. I also will not be attending any anime conventions until the book is turned into the editors! Sorry! I’ll really miss them! 

Sumi-e:

Starting March 28^th-late April some of my sumi-e (chinese ink) paintings will be on display at the Fields Ertel Barnes and Nobles. All the paintings up for display are for sale, in addition commissions are available. Some of the paintings will be available on my deviantart site to look at. 

Book:

I’ve been writing like mad for this book. It has been very fun to put together however, and I have enjoyed meeting the ghost hunting groups and individuals interviewed for the book. I recently have become a member of Indiana Ghost Trackers Bloomington, which I has been great so far! I hope to gain some more stories and have some adventures along the way! 

Life:

My poor car Frankenstein has been having some electrial issues and thus has been in the shop all weekend. I should be picking him up today! Hope he works well now! It has been very frustrating having him die on my all the time….

Well that’s it, thanks for reading the updates everyone!

-Katsu

There are some new updates for my comics and social network information: 

I have an account on Twitter now! If interested, I’m at http://twitter.com/mangakat

On Twitter (and any other social site such as my myspace (http://www.myspace.com/bourei), please tell me who you are and how you found me (for example, I’m John Smith and I’m a Miss Grey fan!) or I will not add you as a contact. 

On another note, I have put up the first six pages of The Red Orchid Society- my new webcomic on Drunk Duck! New pages can be found here: http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Red_Orchid_Society/index.php

Short Description: 

The Red Orchid Society (or ROS for short) is a new shojo manga that updates Monday/Wednesday/Friday. The protagonist Ran Yoshida is a daughter of the head Shinto Priest at Asahi Inari Jinya outside to Kyoto, and hopes to one day marry a guy who loves her family run shrine as much as she does and continue the tradition of caring for the shrine. One day the kami answer her prayers by sending her not just one, but two suitors to the shrine grounds. The only catch is that one sports a pair of fangs and a lust of blood while the other has a tail. How is Ran going to function normally in society with freaks for fiances?

Please vote for The Red Orchid Society or Miss Grey over at http://topwebcomics.com/. The search box is on the bottom of the front page. If there is enough interest in either of the comics, I’ll start making wallpapers for each month for voting up there. :D 

I hope readers will enjoy reading this fantasy shojo as much as I love putting it together! 

Cheers! 

Katsu