How this comic came about, and why you're reading this now, years after it was done.

Apparently, Paul Kidd got the idea while working on the ShadowRun video game.

Cyberkitties had already been drawn by several artists as several short stories, some of which are available in comic book format via the now-defunct MU Press comic book label. The series ran 3 issues. My issue was never realized in print, and in fact the entire project was dead when I took over. Paul asked me to do art for another issue for what I believe were promotional purposes or at least to try reviving the thing via another publisher. In February 1997, Paul sent me a script of a "full-issue" story, not short stories as previously published. I drew up most of the comics pages which are now being issued on this web site (about 22-23 of the pages out of 27) in a few months. I also drew a bunch of concept drawings.

A few months after that, Paul went to Japan to sell some story concepts. He'd brought along a bunch of my concept art and somehow got some kind of deal going with Japanese publishing giant Kodansha to publish Cyberkitties as an original manga to be published in Japan. They said they'd get either Ippongi Bang or Masaomi Kanzaki to take over the art and base the manga on my design. Needless to say, that deal went through the roof several months later. At the time, I was living in California, I had just graduated from art school and was looking for a job. I had no access to the internet and was spiralling into depression because I was alone and had no prospects for a career.

Sometime the next year, Paul got an Australian animation company interested in Cyberkitties, but that also fell through. At this time, I was undergoing therapy for depression and trying to get my life back in order.

In 2001, I finally got off my keister and finished the original script I got back in 1997 and posted it onto geocities. Aside from finishing it (aside from page 20), I decided to redesign Alex. I went through all the pages and replaced her in all of them. Actually, her face is the same from the 1997 version, but I replaced her hair and some parts of her body directly on the original art. I also redid a few of the backgrounds and replaced some panels entirely because they just looked awful.

The comic stagnated again, though, because I actually got a life. My depression was gone, but I had wasted my life doing nothing but drawing and watching cartoons and playing video games. I never went out on a date, never travelled, never did anything, and I was a few years out of college already. I decided instead to spend the next few years partying. I had a good time.

So there it was on the internet and Paul Kidd's webmaster linked to it from his website. I never did anything with it since. In 2004, Paul ended up in legal troubles for something related to his kids in Australia and I had just survived a flood from one of the hurricanes but all of my art was underwater... and frankly I thought all of this was over with.

It's now many years later. I live with my girlfriend, been all over the US, and have had all sorts of crazy encounters with strange women, conventions, and parties up and down the east coast. I'm now in my 30s and settling down. Over all of the years I have received probably 3 emails about if I will ever finish this. The truth is it has been done for years. I just never got around to putting all the pages up on the website. Also, since page 20 wasn't done, I never put up the finished pages past that page for years. Since no one ever said anything, I never finished. Recently, I got a longer email from a fan from Sweden saying he really enjoyed it, as opposed to the other two "hey, are you finishing this? signed, fan" emails I got.

I decided to go ahead and throw the whole thing up after that. Unfortunately, since the flood happened I wasn't able to find all the art for it. Finally, in August 2007 I found in the depths of my attic all of the missing artwork and posted it all up here, complete and finished.