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May14

Miss Grey page #58 is here!

by Kat on May 14, 2013 at 8:48 pm
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Hi guise!

Holy crap! It has been a few weeks since I have been able to update a comic page on the site. I am terribly sorry about that! I’ve decided that since this weekend in Anime Central in Rosemont, IL- that I would take the week to work on manga! Fun times to be had by all!

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Anime Central 2013

I love Anime Central, affectionately called Acen by con-goers. This year marks the convention’s “Sweet 16,” it also marks the 10 year anniversary of Sporkrat and I meeting each other! We’ll also be meeting our friends Lulu and GarDan there, and hopefully a few of you!

☆彡Vegapunk

 

 

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May13

Oklahoma City!

by Kat on May 13, 2013 at 2:48 pm
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Hiya guise~ °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

Sporkrat and I are back from a weekend trip to Oklahoma City and the University of Oklahoma. Sporkrat’s sister just graduated from her PhD program at the University, and we wanted to celebrate with her!

Congratulations to all of the 2013 graduates, wherever you are!

☆*･゜ﾟ･*\(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆

 

This upcoming weekend Sporkrat and I will be at Anime Central in Rosemont, IL! We don’t have an artist alley table, but will be going as attendees. Hope to see you there!

☆彡Vegapunk

 

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May05

Sunday News

by Kat on May 5, 2013 at 3:39 pm
Posted In: Blog, Events, Haunted locations, Opinion, Uncategorized

Happy Sunday everyone! Mammoth photo posts will resume soon, but first I wanted to keep you guys up to date with news from the ghost cave (yeah, I’m calling my studio that now).

Kat’s Health:

After 11 days of antibiotics and pain relievers, I’m finally feeling back to my old self. Really, sleeping 20 hours a day was getting old (I don’t remember last weekend too well). I do have a follow-up appointment with my doctor this week to make sure everything is working properly now.

Miss Grey

Due to work on Haunted Ohio Crime, my second book, I can’t continue the three day a week updates that we saw before the Japan Trip. However, I am not letting the comic go into another hiatus (the last one was three years long!) So, Miss Grey will update with one new page every week until the book’s manuscript is turned in, which is likely going to be in October to mid-November. The deadline is November 15th, just so you know.

I am planning on the comic to update on Mondays.

Haunted Ohio Crime

With the announcement about Miss Grey said, I will be be busy traveling for fieldwork for H.O.C. My style of book writing is immersive, I would say, I go out to the locations to take photos and interview people connected to the sites- whether it be property owners, paranormal groups who have investigated the location, or history buffs. I also look for as much information, for or against, hauntings happening at the property. It is intense, and takes a while to do.

Once the book’s manuscript is done, Miss Grey will resume the three update a week schedule and I’ll really be able to focus on the story.  2014 shall be an awesome year!

Again, I’m sorry to the Miss Grey readers who were really expecting a lot of updates. I’m just a one-man show here, sometimes it is too difficult to juggle everything. ・゜・(ノД`)

☆彡Vegapunk (aka Kat)

 

May03

Mammoth Japan photo post part 2

by Kat on May 3, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Posted In: Blog, Events, Uncategorized

Oh yes, it is time for the second MAMMOTH JAPAN PHOTO POST!

These are photos from April 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2013.

On April 13th we attended the Tokyo wedding reception of my long time friend, Junko. She was married in Okinawa and we weren’t able to attend the formal ceremony (which looked awesome) but she and her husband Junya had a casual wedding reception for friends in Tokyo. This party was the entire reason why we visited Japan this year! Twelve years ago Junko was an exchange student at my house,  a decade ago I visited her house in Tokyo and visited her high school. Many of those high school friends were at this party, and were very excited to meet me again! Kinda surreal actually. We also met a bunch of new friends at the reception too.

The next day we visited the new Tokyo Sky Tree! Unfortunately we couldn’t go up and take in the view from the top of the Sky Tree because the winds were just too dang strong. We did get some lovely photos of the Sky Tree and then got to go shopping at the mall that is in the basement of the Sky Tree (that’s where the Hello Kitty Store is!)

On April 15th we met up with my former host-sister in-law Tsuda-san in Tokyo. She is a big Akira Toriyama fan, and took us out to see an exhibit at the Nihonbashi Takashimaya for Dragon Ball. At the exhibit they had a massive time line display of events in the manga, plus dozens and dozens of original manga boards that Toriyama drew! That was the most awesome thing about the exhibit. I explained to Sporkrat and Tsuda-san different details of the boards that they initially didn’t catch; like white out to correct small errors, the bleed lines and how Toriyama sometimes just drew on the entire page regardless of them, the editors stamp of approval, stuff like that. Tsuda was amazed, and said it was neat going through a manga exhibit with a mangaka to explain what we were looking at. That made me feel great.

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I took over 2000 photos during the trip, so there are more to come!

 

 

 

 

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Apr30

Mammoth Japan photo post part 1

by Kat on April 30, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Posted In: Blog, Events, Opinion

It’s here! It’s here! The day that Vegapunk uploads the highlight photos from her two weeks in JAPAAAAAAAAAAN!

Yep, I am now awake long enough to write down what Sporkrat and I were up to for two weeks (April 10-24th) in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Nara, Ise, and Chiryuu cities. This was very much a “hey, let’s go visit all our Japanese friends in the Kanto and Chubu Regions and do some sightseeing on the side” kind of trips. For me, this was my FIFTH time visiting, for Sporkrat it was his third and longest stay in Japan.

Thankfully while we were there North Korea didn’t decide to wage war on the Earth, there were no major earthquakes to starttle us Midwesterners (haha actually Sporkrat and I have both experienced a 6.0+ earthquake before….) and Godzilla didn’t rise out of the deep ocean to eat anyone.

We had a travel companion with us on the trip, Walter the pervy rabbit. It’s…it’s just that grin he has is so creepy for a child’s toy. Oh, and I do want to apologize for the lack of Tweeting and Facebook posts, there’s no free wifi over there which is a topic for later….

Anyway, onto spreading the photo goodness of the land known as Japan!

April 12th: Chukagai (China Town) Yokohama, Japan

We spent our first full day Japan, not in Tokyo, but neighboring Yokohama, Japan (the second largest city in the country). Yokohama is a huge international trading port, and was where  Commodore M. Perry landed his American ships in 1853 to open Japan to trade with the United States. Chukagai, or China Town, in Yokohama is a huge tourist attraction since it is the largest China Town in the country. There were a lot of Chinese and Korean visitors in Chukagai when we visited. Including a group of Korean Tourists who looked as if they had just strutted off the covers of Vogue Korea.

A note on tourists: because Sporkrat hadn’t seen a lot of “touristy” Japan, we did a lot of tourist stuff. There were a great deal of Chinese (maybe from Taiwan) tourists and South Korean tourists. But OMG there were tons from France. I suppose it was spring break and entire families would come to Japan during this time? Dunno.

I need to take a picture of it, but we did pick up a golden pig stuffed animal while in Yokohama. I’m a year of the boar, so I thought it was funny and cute. Besides wearing blisters on my feet from all the walking, visiting Yokohama was pretty fun!

 

 

 

 

 

Apr27

End of Japan Trip 2013 & Pyelonephritis

by Kat on April 27, 2013 at 8:09 am
Posted In: Blog, Opinion, Uncategorized

Sporkrat and I are back in Cincinnati from our trip to Japan! We arrived on Wednesday night from our 20 (total) hour flight from Tokyo to Los Angles to Cincinnati, then on Thursday morning I was taken to the local Emergency Room since a dull pain in my abdomen which I have had for a week was still there. After five ours in the ER, it was determined that I have Pyelonephritis, an infected kidney (my left one) and the track that connects it to the bladder. Apparently I passed a few kidney stones while in Japan (thus the pain) and that everything had become infected due to that.

Fun time everyone, fun times.

To explain it in the best way possible, Pyelonephritis is like walking around feeling as if all your internal organs are slowly being crushed by a heavy weight. I lived with this pain for a week before getting back to the States and going to the ER. Another description is that it is like being in labor, since I’ve never had a kid I have no clue to that comparison.

Photos of our trip will be going up soon! I had a good week in Japan before the crushing pain slowed things down. By the way I want to mention that it wasn’t the Japanese food that caused this, my family is prone to Kidney Stones and the infections thereafter. It was just poor timing on the count of my genetics.

☆彡Vegapunk

 

 

 

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