The Kat Box

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!