WORST COMIC-CON EVER!!!

 

 

It began like a day just like any other!
I left my house at 5am to drive to San Diego for Comic Con.
I had been nominated for an Eisner award for a book me and many other artists put out last year in the "Best Anthology" category. The book, "Come Out And Play" is still available here. 

 I'm SURE everyone's been here at least once!

In all seriousness, it was an honour I could not describe.
I've been an underground cartoonist for something like 17 years. I've never been given a nod like this before. Never thought I ever WOULD! in 2026, I am kinda under the radar by design. I think I had aspirations of breaking into the mainstream once upon a time, but ever since the writer's strike, all the stories about the abuse of talent in the industry, big studios fucking over creators specifically AND the Epstein Agenda of demonizing and abusing trans people going mainstream, my desire to "become famous" has waned. I feel MORE successful as an artist who is in control of my own IP than someone who made a deal with Cartoon Network, who made 10 lousy episodes out of their life's work and passion, cancelled it, and then cut them out of the contract for who gets royalties and merchandising rights.

All this aside, being recognized as a potentially Eisner-worthy artist felt GOOD!
Even if it was as a part of a large group of artists.
I've solidified my plan to try to make my next TransCat book JUST as Eisner-worthy as Come Out And Play. Apparently the Eisners do NOT differentiate between indie comics and big studio comes when it considers it's nominees. There were a lotta winners last week that ONLY released on Webtoon, never had a book in a store, or even in an artist alley. Imagine if the Grammys nominated someone's Soundcloud page alongside Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny. That's what the Eisners felt like. Especially for ME and our group of artists, who were competing against DC Pride, Judge Dredd and Noir is the New Black.

It was honestly kind of crazy just BEING in that room at ALL. 
Like, I've BEEN in a room with celebrities before. I go to these things all the time. But this was DIFFERENT because THIS time, I was there WITH them as opposed to there to SEE them. We were all sitting in the same section, being wined and dined by Comic-Con with all this bomb-ass gourmet food and shit. Being a vegan, however, my choices were limited. There was a pretty good kale and broccoli salad that basically saved my life though.
It was crazy being in the same room as George Takei, knowing we could both potentially take that stage that night and make a speech. I had a speech in mind, even! Until I found out that IF we won, it would be our editor taking the stage, not any of the artists :P

I am burying the lead here a little bit, we did not win :(
We wound of losing to DC Pride, which, I guess is a worthy opponent to lose to. Having shit I did being weighed on the same scales and Harely and Poison Ivy is already kind of a mind job.

I'm just glad the award went to some Gays, you know. It still FELT like a victory, even thought it wasn't mine personally. It wold not have been MINE personally anyway, I'd have shared the honour with so many others who helped make that book as badass as it is.
All this to say I'm TRYING to not be bitter, even though I REALLY WANTED THAT TROPHY!!!

...

Okay, calming down now.

So I'm burying the lead again. I didn't title this blog "Worst Comic-Con Ever" because I didn't win the award. I'm not THAT pissy of a piss baby.
No, the REAL bad shit actually happened the day after. I was lucky enough to get a spare ticket from my publisher Tara, so I was GONNA try and spend at least one more day at the con and actually see some stuff that wasn't the awards show. But I never made it there cuz I got into a TERRIBLE car crash on Highway 5.

It was stop and go traffic the whole time. We were going 50, we were going, 15. We were going 60, we were going 10. We were going 75, were going 5. All very stressful, all very dangerous.
I was maybe only about 5 minutes away from the exit to the convention center when suddenly I hear this absolute cacophony of honking and tire screeching. It felt REALLY close, like it was right behind me or right beside me. I nervously look over to see what is happening/about to happen to me.
But I never got the chance cuz in that split second my eyes were off the road, all the cars in front of me just STOPPED. I hit the brakes as hard as I could but it was too late. I tried to SWERVE but it was too late. I clipped the side of the bumper of the car in front of me, and because of the sped I was going and the pressure I'd applied to my brakes, the angle caused my car to FLIP! Right onto the hood!
ALL my windows shattered, I skidded for what felt like 20-30 seconds, and as the road rushed by my face, the only thing I had to protect myself was my arms.
The car screeched to a stop, I had to unbuckle my seatbelt and fall onto my ceiling so I could now crawl through all this glass so I could escape the car before it got hit by ANOTHER car.

My memory is kinda hazy at this point but I tried to grab anything and everything I could get out of my front seat, which wasn't much. My glasses had flown off my face and my phone was nowhere to be found. I had my wallet, my CD booklet (which had been almost totally destroyed), and the program from the Eisners from the night before, which had my seat ticket AND my con ticket folded up into it.

This part I remember very clearly though. As I crawled out, there was a lady trying to help me. I don't think she was involved in the accident. I think she was just a kind bystander who wanted to help. When she saw how bloody I was, she shouted "SOMEBODY CALL HER AN AMBULANCE!"
Gendered correctly, even when I'm at my worst. Still got it, baby!
Paramedics showed up almost immediately. I was shocked at how quickly they came. THEY saw how much I was bleeding and said "Let get you to the hospital!" They cleaned out as much of the glass and gravel out of my arm as they could. Disinfected it, which stung like the dickens, and got me to the nearest hospitals for X-rays. When they dropped me off, one of them handed my my belongings in a bag and she showed me the Eisner program, absolutely smeared in my blood, and she said "THAT'S badass. Get that framed."

I was panicking because I STILL didn't have my phone and had no way of contacting anyone to let them know what happened. I was now stranded in San Diego. There was NO way my car was gonna be good to drive again, which was making my panic more cuz I NEED my car for my JOB. NOW what am I gonna do. Between cleanings of my arm, I asked a nurse if she could get me a phone. I have two phone numbers memorized. My Mom and my Dad. But I was calling from a weird hospital phone number way outta town, of COURSE they're gonna think it's a spam call! So I left them messages instead, and said "I cannot receive calls from this number, it just connects to the hospital's phone tree. So I'm gonna try calling you over and over again every 5 minutes until I can CRY with you."

I did finally get ahold of my mom, who is the REAL MVP of this weekend.
she flew out and helped me with everything. The hospital, getting in touch with my friends and my job, getting the rest of my shit outta my car, replacing my glasses and my blood soaked clothes. Then we flew home. I am finally safe back in SF. Hallelujah.
I STILL have a lotta glass and gravel and burns and road rash on my arm.
I'm still in some pain, and have a ways to go for recovery.
I won't be able to draw for awhile, because it's my DRAWING arm! they TOOK my DRAWING ARM!!!

But you know what? I... can rebuild.

       

The words of one of the paramedics still haunts me.
He said "It's not very often we see someone walk away from a crash that bad."
I am still alive, and it's crazy cuz its only just in this past couple years that I felt like my life was important enough to be worth preserving. If this had happened to me before 2023, I'd be like "fuck it dude, don't save me at all, i'll just stay in the wreck. Crush me into a cube, who gives a fuck?"
But my life is BETTER now and I have shit I wanna live to DO and SEE and EXPERIENCE! The closest I ever got to death was when I most tenaciously clung to life. Ain't that always the way?
I got a home in wonderful city, so many amazing friends and family members who love me, and I got a special someone these days who's REALLY making life worth living <3

ALL of this to say...
PLEASE support my PATREON!
The after math of all of this is going to be EXPENSIVE and the best way you can support me is be interested in my comic book.
Have I mentioned that I'm Eisner Nominated?
I promise I'll make it worth your while. I have a lot of new pages of TransCat issue #13 as well as some other related projects that I cannot wait to show you. and as soon as my arm is better, I'll draw EVEN more!

But yeah, please tell your friends.
I need/want more readers <3

When I get my next Eisner nomination, I don't want people saying "wtf is TransCat?"

See you... OUT THERE!!!

TransCat at Q-Con in West Hollywood 2026

 

As "He Is Legend" once proudly proclaimed, "I Am Hollywood!"

No, that is not even remotely true. I am very much not Hollywood at all. I am FAR too Bay Area to be Hollywood. I would have thought that after living in San Fransisco for the past 9 and a half months wold have acclimated me to a city as dense and seedy as Hollywood, but it remains a wholly different beast.

Do I love visiting? Oh, hell yeah, without question.
Could I live there? Not unless i got REAL cool with some shit REAL fast. I'm still getting used to SF as my home.

The show went very well, I think. Aside from some fuckery with the hotel room, the visit went well too! I got some good food, caught up with some old friends, picked up some new books, and even sold a few!

If anything the show was too dang short.
I've seen this lil show balloon in size over the past 4 years. I feel like the next step is extending it to a two day event. Saturday and Sunday. That would rule! I love the drive, don't get me wrong, but it's kinda anticlimactic to arrive Friday and leave Saturday. Give me an excuse to stay one more day! I suppose I COULD just stay one more day on my own? But I feel like I need the excuse. I think I'd be MORE likely to wanna go out, see the town, go clubbin', etc, if that was the schedule I was expecting.
Like Fanime, there's a certain point where the con "closes" and we're all expected to go to our hotel rooms and sleep, but instead we get together and dance and smooch and shit. Even at the end of the day on Saturday, I didn't hear no one even talking about an after party!
It's like, come on, were all gays here, and we're in Hollywood! Our ancestral homeland!
I really think that if it was an overnight stay, people would WANNA party! That's what Q-Con is missing!

One thing Q-Con is NOT missing is friggin' COSPLAYERS! They came out in force that day. I hate to say it, but the cosplay contest kind of DOES take over the space while we (the artists) are trying hard to schmooze and sell our books. And after it's over, it kinda sucks the momentum outta the rest of the con. This is further argument in favour of lengthening the duration of this con. The Cosplay Contest is kind of the crescendo of the whole event. I think it would be a good mid-con event, something to cap off the end of the first day. Then we return the next day and have a more solemn end of ceremonies event on Sunday.

OR! Another idea. The cosplay contest can be the end of the whole thing. I think it wold feel less disruptive if it was the actual endcap of the convention. We wouldn't have to worry about the sudden momentum drop of the convention having an hour left after the biggest event of the day wraps up.

There was generally a very disdainful attitude towards the cosplayers among the artists, which I do not want. We're not in competition. We're just there together. One artist I will not name said they actually hated the cosplayers. Not only because the event is disruptive, but also because they never BUY anything. I dunno man, sounds like a skill issue to me. I got cosplayers buying from me all the time. But I also got this winning personality that seems to sell most of my books FOR me. Hopefully they get them home and read them actually like them, but usually I am just very charming and flirty and it makes people all the more interested in what I make, whether they're in costume or not.

But alas, Q-Con remains only a one day event, and who knows if it can ever expand???
Maybe someday, someone will ask me to lend a hand in the planning and plotting and I can see for myself all the reason two days would never work. OR! I can be the one just crazy enough to pull it off! I got high hopes, ya know?

The drive back was murder but I made it!
I LOVED being back in my own bed again, and having my own toilet and shower.
From now on I will VERY thoroughly research ANY place I book to stay, especially if it's in SoCal.
I am a pretty pretty princess and I deserve ONLY the best! (but I shouldn't have to pay for it).

Stay tuned for more!

TransCat B-Sides Release Event, Fanime, ComicCon, and Other Drama!

 

Good Afternoon TransCat Fans!

SO! The first official TransCat B-sides event has come and gone!
How did it go? And what's coming up next???

First, let us simply address all the elephants that somehow got shoved into this impossibly small room and say this event was DIFFICULT to plan. I don't want to get too into it for the sake of not spreading drama, but I will say simply that I had to seek out a different venue VERY last minute, and I am SO LUCKY that 7 Stars Bar and Grill in Campell was so incredibly willing to step up and take me in when it looked like I was gonna have to cancel entirely.

7 Stars is by far not an environment I am used to for promotional events. I'm used to comic conventions, comic shops, book stores, LGBTQ community centers or events, etc. This is a bar and grill, which is a little out of my element. The angle, however, is that it is a STAR WARS themed bar and grill, so this is definitely a nerd positive environment. 

I am worried that events I do in the future will somewhat fail to measure up to this, because the one thing 7 Stars has that will be very difficult to guarantee anywhere else I go is a nice lil menu of vegan food. They actually have ALL kindsa food, AND drinks, in fact. If you are in the Campbell, CA area any time soon and you're looking for some badass vegan nachos, or banh mi, or meatball subs, THIS is the place!

Plus, the whole place is lined up and down with Star Wars memorabilia of all kinds. Action figures, comics, statues, art prints, as well as some cool props which I can only assume are hand-made. They got a life sized Han in Carbonite sculpture out front with the face cut out, so you can get behind it and get your picture taken. They also got a not QUITE life sized Jabba the Hutt all the way in the back towards the end of the bar. It looks mostly paper mache. 
 

it's pretty skillfully done.

Unfortunately, along with the venue change came a time change as well. The comic shop had a tighter schedule that I was allowed to be there in. 12pm to 4pm. Not sure why it had to be so tight for the but I work with what they give me.
Weirdly enough, this odd timing actually seemed to work out for a lot of my friends and fans, who I guess were free in the early part of the day, but had shit to do in the evening. 7 Stars, however, opened at 4pm, so that was our start time. The good news was we had a LOT more time to schmooze and promote, cuz the bar owners were happy to have us there until closing. Sadly, it meant that a lotta folk who had shit to do in the evening just plain couldn't make it. 
It's okay though, because there WILL be more events! And also, the people who COULD make it had a GREAT time and I'm SO grateful for that. I was surrounded by family and loved ones and comic fans and even strangers who had no idea who I was, but were interested in what I was doing anyway.

At the end of the day it was a wonderful event. I sold a LOTTA the new book, plus some of my old books as well! I actually wound up selling out of my original graphic novel, as well as, really randomly, Issue #8. I guess I just ain't re-ordered that one in awhile.

And at the end of the time, we got karaoke!
Seriously, that's ALL my favourite shit right there.
Comics, vegan food, Star Wars and karaoke!
Could there possibly be an event MORE tailor made towards my specific interests? In the immortal words of Marge Simpsons, I guess we're just going to have to wait and see!

So that was my weekend LAST weekend.

The weekend BEFORE! Hooboy! THAT'S Fanime!

So this was not my first Fanime OUT as a trans woman. It wasn't even my first Fanime outwardly and specifically presenting as a trans woman. But I WILL say the Fanimes prior, I have gone with predominantly straight men. THIS year I went with girls, gay girls, trans girls and non-binary peeps. Before, Fanime was always a 10/10 experience. No complaints. Loved it every year. This year? Hard 11/10. Best ever! More of this, please! 

I have not been to Fanime as an artist in awhile. I do miss it, though, cuz I always did so well every year, but the Artist Alley has gotten harder and harder to get into as the focus of the alley itself has shifted hard into fan art of existing properties and away from original, anime inspired art or stories.
I never understood the selling of fanart, myself. Very seldom have i desired to have a print of someone else's rendition of Goku on my wall. I get why it appeals to people in general, but for me, that's just not WHY I go to the Artist Alley, and it's not the kinda thing I want to have to make to get INTO Artist Alley. I will however say that I DID see more original art than usual this year. I even found a book that seems to be VERY much in the vein of TransCat called Scarlet Star by Da Vin Kim.

https://kimjdav-shop.fourthwall.com/products/scarlet-star-vol-1

The way the author pitched it to me was "A delinquent boy transforms into a magical girl". And you know me, it does NOT take much to sell me with ANY kinda queer content, but this is VERY laser focused at ME and MY interests, so it was an INSTANT buy. It was a LITTLE pricey, not gonna lie, he charged me $45 at the con. LOOKS like I could bought it for $30 on the website, but whatever, I am happy to help this artist pay for their table a lil' faster than usual. Plus, this is 172 pages of content so you're getting your money' worth on this one.
Feels like maybe I should be raising MY prices a lil bit! My first TransCat graphic novel is 192 pages, and B-Sides is 218, and I sell those for $25 each.

I dunno times are tough and maybe raising prices is a natural reaction to that.
but on the other hand, I kinda ALSO want people to hear a number lower than they were expecting, and feel like giving ME that money is not even an action they gotta think too hard about.

These books cost a lil over 10 bucks each to print, so a $15 profit ain't that bad, tbh.
Makes me wonder where Da is getting his books done. They're damn fine quality!

Anyway, long story short, Fanime was rad.

what ELSE is going on in the world of Knave?

Oh!
Remember that come Out And Play anthology I was part of last year?
We've been nominated for an Eisner award!

Outrageous! I know! I have been in this biz for like, 18 years. I've been doing TransCat for 12 of those years! I never in my life imaged I'd be up for such a prestigious award. Granted, it is not SPECIFICALLY TransCat that is nominated, it's TransCat and like, 50 other amazing talented artists as well. Or, if you choose to read it as such, I am riding 50 other artists' FAR more talented coat tails with my silly little cat girl comic. Whatever! This is AMERICA! Benefiting from the hard work of others is practically baked into our culture.

SPEAKING of which!
When I first got the news, it was somewhat bittersweet, cuz while it is an honour to be nominated alongside the likes of DC Comics and Judge Dredd, there was... well... ANOTHER book on that list that really really sank my spirits. You mighta heard of this. "Stardust the Super Wizard". The first book the Eisners have EVER nominated made with AI.

Like I said, I been scrapin' by and payin my dues in this biz for nearly two decades, and there was a part of me that was very hurt to know that I'd finally made it HERE... alongside a fucking BOT!
I had plans to bum rush the stage Kanye West style if the robut won, snatch the mic and make shit REAL WEIRD for EVERYONE in attendance. Yes I more than likely would have been kicked out, MAYBE arrested. But if people are gonna be clappin' for a clanker, their boo's mean nothing at all to me.
But there is good news as well, which you'll notice by observing that Stardust is NOT on the list I just provided. Looks like the backlash against allowing an AI book to even be nominated was enough to make the judges rescind their decision. See? Bullying WORKS! we are safe from AI for at least another year.

So! I'll find out at the end of July if we won or not.
And you know, even if we don't bring it home, I'm STILL throwing a great big party when I get home, because as much of a cliche as it is, it IS an IMMENSE honour to be nominated! That's a badge I can wear with pride for the rest of my days. And even if we DO win, the goal of being nominated for a standalone TransCat book is still on my bucket list. and since AI seems to not being going anywhere no matter WHAT we do, I gotta long road ahead, as an artist who creates using their actual hands.

I'll be keeping you updated, of course.
In the mean time, I still have Q-Con in Hollywood coming up this month.
THAT'S gonna be a big to-do for sure!

Thanks for wading through this wall of text with me!

Just as a reminder, i STILL update my Patreon every week with new WIP art from the upcomming TtansCat issue #13.

https://www.patreon.com/c/TransCat

I've hemorrhaged a lotta patrons this past couple years since the books been on hiatus.
But I am back, the book is back, and I want YOU back!

$1 per month gets you access to ALL of the WIP pages I upload every week.
$5 per month gets you that, plus .PDF's of all of my past issues, PLUS... new issues when they are finished :D

I've also been tinkering with a new free comic I wanna start drawing and uploading every week.
Stay tuned for that too! :3

TRANSCAT AT ILLUSIVE COMICS AND GAMES

We got ANOTHER TransCat event coming up!
If you are in the Bay Area and want a chance to meet the REAL TransCat, come on down to Illusive Comics and Games in Santa Clara May 31st between 12pm and 4pm.

I'll be selling the new graphic novel, plus every other book I've released. I'll be signing autographs and maybe, if I'm lucky, will be doing a reading from the new book.

Come on by, brings you friends, bring your family, but most importantly, BRING MONEY!

The good folk at Illusive Comics have been TransCat supporters since the early days and I cannot thank them enough for hosting me again.

If you CAN'T make it and still wanna support the TransCat Cause, don't forget to support the Patreon.

I am doing my best to revive this long forgotten page with new weekly content.
I know we're in a recession and no one can afford nothin' no more, but I did my best to not only make all my tiers cheap, but include a vast array of free shit too!
Seriously, any engagement helps at this point T^T

Anyway! Hopefully I'll be hopefully making more announcements for events soon! I'm trying like crazy to book more. Maybe I'll come to YOUR area!!!???

Knave at Q-Con 2026

 

There is a city by the sea
A gentle company
I don't suppose you want to
And as it tells its sorry tale
In harrowing detail
Its hollowness will haunt you

Its streets and boulevards
Orphans and oligarchs are here
A plaintive melody
Truncated symphony
An ocean's garbled vomit on the shore
Los Angeles, I'm yours

- The Decemberists

So I'm going back to Q-Con this summer! Hopefully this will be just one of many shows I'm able to schedule this year, but I'll do my best to keep you all in the loop.

If you're in the West Hollywood area, come and see us!
It's a free show and it's wall to wall talented artists.

Hell, If I'm studious, I might be able to finish TransCat #13 by this time ;-)
Pray for me, mortals!

TransCat Comics: Celebrating Twelve Years of (not) Blogging

 

Click the picture to check out the Patreon Post! :)

Happy Saturday Morning, everyone!
Just call me the Queen of Cartoons cuz I got some COMICS for ya!
I'm gonna start making new site updates every time I post on Patreon, see if that helps!

I talk about this a lil' in my blog on the Patreon post but it's behind a paywall so I'll summarize it briefly here.

$1.00/month gets you access to all my WIP's. I'm gonna upload a new one every week.
$5.00/month gets you access to all that, PLUS all my finished work!

As of now, I'll be uploading my brand new draft of TransCat #13, a book that I've been starting and stopping, starting and stopping for over 5 years now.
This WILL be the draft I finish! And YOU can watch it all happen for a dollar a month! That doesn't seem so BAD, DOES it???

The "TransCat's LiveJournal" project is still coming together. Hopefully very soon I'll have a plethora of new, free content to sweeten the deal, and make $1 or $5 a month feel more worth it. More on that as it comes.

Look forward to a more consistent upload schedule. Gonna try and keep it to one a week, every Saturday morning.
Enjoy, consider subscribing, and hopefully I'll be seeing you at the cons soon!

TRANSCAT'S BACK, ALRIGHT!

 

Click HERE to order TransCat B-Sides TODAY!

Gosh, it's been a lil over two years since my last update, ain't it?
I do apologize for the long absence, there's been SO much going on, all of which I will GLADLY tell you about now!

So the part you may know already is that the collaboration I forged to work on TransCat Issue #13 fell apart. I started focusing on TransCat B-Sides while I regrouped and concocted a way to re-write Issue #13 which utilized as much of my already finished art as possible.

THEN, The Come Out and Play compilation came along! 

Once in awhile, I got an opportunity from the fine people at Stacked Deck Press to take part in one of their amazing comics compilations. It had been awhile for me, since many of their recent compilations were themed around subjects and identities that didn't truly include me, so I took a back seat for a lil bit. but this opportunity came along in early 2024 and I wanted to jump on it.
The theme is queer people in sports, and I figured, athlete or not, as a trans woman, I got a lot to say on this topic.
I'd had this joke in my mind for a long time about TransCat playing volleyball, and accidentally colliding with one of her teammates as they both rushed for the ball, and as they both recovered on the gym floor, TransCat asks, in a daze "So does this mean we're like, going now? Or what?" So, a story about Volleyball became my focus.
The story went through many drafts, and eventually became a story about TransCat joining her community college's volleyball team in search of a much needed PE credit for her GenEd requirements.
She is at first accepted onto the team since they're just desperate for another teammate, but when it comes out she is trans, people begin demanding she be kicked off the team for having an unfair advantage, even though she clearly sucks at the game.
At pitched that draft to the editors and they really liked it, but THEN the Olympics happened and everyone started accusing Imane Khelif of being trans and I really REALLY wanted to change my story from a volleyball one into a boxing one. I wrote a new treatment and sent it to Stacked Deck and was like "Hey listen, i know I'm already deep into my first draft, but check THIS out!"
I wished I hadn't spent so much time on that second treatment, cuz they rejected it almost outright. Dunno why exactly, they were just like "No, please stick with your current pitch."
Maybe they were trying to court a little less controversy, maybe they just thought I was too far along to change course, but either way I'm was disappointed but eventually glad that they stood firm cuz the story I eventually finished ended up bringing down the house.
I wound up NOT using that "So does this mean we're like, going now? Or what?"
There was just no good place to put it in the story, so I'mma hafta hang onto that one for later. I have a feeling this won't be the last time TransCat plays volleyball.

So anyway, that took up a lot of my time.

I'm sure you're wondering "Knave, why am I not hearing about ANY of this until now?"

Well.

In 2024, my life ALSO changed in a HUGE way.

I'm sure many of you reading have heard of the recent film "I Saw the TV Glow".
If you've seen the film, you can probably see where this is going, but to put it bluntly, the ending of that movie really made me question all of my life choices.
I'd been "in transition" for the past 8 years, and in that moment, I felt like I was being lazy, sitting on my laurels, not making the moves I REALLY wanted to make, due to either anxiety associated with surgery recovery, or the social stigma that comes with VISIBLY transitioning. I'd already been doing that for awhile, as I've had pronounced breasts for at least 7 of the past 8 years. But I'd been wanting to mess with not just my junk, but my face as well. Biting the bullet and facing the pain of surgery, the awkwardness of recovery and the endless, endless possibilities that I wouldn't like what I've chosen.
This anxiety wreaked havoc not only on my private life, but my social life as well. I'd ceased any kind of romantic pursuits almost entirely, and went out only with friends I knew well and felt comfortable with, making no effort to meet new people or try new things. I gained a lot of weight, and my health went downhill.
But seeing the ending of "I Saw The TV Glow" really awakened in me this feeling that I'd been letting fear ruin my life, and that maybe I was running out of time to have the life I wanted and be happy. It was 2024 and I was gonna be 40 years old that autumn. And what had I done with that time?
I was devastated. I sobbed in the theater. I sobbed so hard, my nose bled. I dunno if those two things were necessarily related, but i had to apologize to the theater staff for bloodying up my seat. It was that bad.

I walked away from that theater experience feeling lost and extremely down on myself, unsure of what I was going to do with these new feelings.
All I knew was I had to make a change in my life.

What happens next is complicated and not all parts of this story are for public consumption, but long story short, while in this new mindset, I met someone who wound up changing my life. Someone who was free in all the ways I wished to be. Someone who, through spending time with and observing, I feel like I learned a lot about how to love myself, and be who I wished to be.
If you asked her now, she would not want to take credit for this. she would say I did all the hard work, and she'd be right, but I think having her in my life made that hard work feel not so hard.

So here we are, a year and a half later.
I've gotten my FFS, I'm in the middle of scheduling my GRS.
I am dating again.
I am going out regularly.
I am going to the gym, getting in better shape.
I'm attempting to make some moves in my career and education.
AND I've moved out on my own, finally.
I am now a proud resident of the great city of San Fransisco.

And through all this, i have not REALLY been working on TransCat :/

BUT! Were back! We are SO BACK! I am a proud San Fransiscan artist and by golly it's about time I've made a name for myself. I've got a new book that you can buy RIGHT NOW, and I've already booked my first new show at Pride in Panels NEXT WEEK and the SF Public Library. 

Keep an eye out for MORE show announcements, because I have no intention of stopping here.
Also, Issue #13 is being worked on again, along with Issues #14, #15 and #16.

When I get good pencil drafts of all these issues down on paper, I'll start showing them off.
Keep an eye on my long forgotten Patreon for further updates.

I've also been toying with another concept called "TransCat's Livejournal" which will be  a collection of either one off jokes, random musings, short stories, or even very pointed references that I feel like putting TransCat in.
That one's still in the cooking phase. Stay tuned on that one.

I'm hoping I'll have more to say, and more time to say it in coming months.
My new work schedule is a little unpredictable and very demanding.
But PLEASE trust there WILL be more to say!

In the mean time, get your copies of TransCat B-Sides, and come see me at the shows! ^~^