What I'm Listening to:Kyattou Ninden Teyandee OST
What I'm Watching:Burn Notice Season 2,
He-man and the Masters of the Universe Season 1 Vol. 1
What I'm Reading:Bulfinch's Mythology
What I'm Playing
PS2:Devil May Cry 3
GameCube:Nothing right now (My poor little antique :p)
DS/GBA:Draglade, M3 DS Simply Media Reader

A Little Lost

8/27/2008

Hi all,
Got a new comic up, it's just a random thought that popped into head a few days ago that I thought was funny. No real back story to it, but on retrospect it works as my going to PAX comic, check this story from Gabe on the Penny-Arcade news page to see what I mean.

Well I'll be at PAX all weekend, so till next update.

Later
Greg

Kat-Nap at PAX, sort of!!!

8/25/2008

Hi all,
Well I'm going to the Penny Arcade Expo this year. I don't have a booth or any thing, I going to have fun, play some games, meet people, and getting as much swag as I can carry. Speaking of swag I'll be giving out promotional bookmarks for the site there, so if any of you are going to PAX this year look for me and get a free kat-nap bookmark.

Later
Greg

Serious Update

7/26/08

Hi all!

Now don't freak out, but there is a new comic up, that's two this month alone. To all those new to kat nap this is a big deal. What has spurred this boost in current content creation you might ask? Well that would be the World Alliance of Geeks Online Network (W.A.G.O.N.) Webcomic Battle Collectible Cardgame or more to the point the possible inclusion of Kat-Nap to future expansions of the game. I love card games so this is awesome, but what's the catch? After contacting them over at W.A.G.O.N I was given some nice feedback and told I would be definitely be considered I just need to update more often. So I look at it as win win for my readers, more comics for you all to read and trading cards of my characters for you to buy. Who knows if I get enough traffic to my site maybe Kat-Nap could get a theme deck. Check out there site here

More big news I got the games page back up with Escape from the House of the Zombie Monkeys. The Java game that inspired this comic.

Lastly I finally saw The Dark Knight a few days ago, and holy hairballs was it fantastic. At about 2 hours and 45 minuets it was almost like two movies but it didn't feel long. Also Heath Ledger's performance as the joker was amazing, it makes me sad that this is Ledger's last movie.

Oh I also saw Wall-E a few weeks ago, it was a great movie which is not surprising from Pixar.

And thats the news

Later
Greg

Speed Ketty

07/02/2008

Hi all,
Well 3.0 is not finished yet, but I uploaded a new comic and reorganized the archives. I'll upload a new background later in the week. I added an RSS feed to the site, actually for the firefox users the RSS feed was up since the last update, I just added a link to the main page now for everyone else.

Later for Now
Greg

Go No Comic Go!!

5/17/2008

Just thought I would update you all to whats going on at kat-nap.

So I'm currently up to my elbows in code again, working on kat-nap 3.0 web site after learning that I was coding at a 1995 level. Kat-Nap 1.0 was basically held together with chewing gum, string, various chunks of code from various sites, and enough nesting tables to make even a Ikea salesman shudder. With the current 2.0, I still have the tables but they're more under control, but it isn't future proof, heck it's skirting the line of html 4.0 at this moment. So the Internet is evolving to one standard, XHTML, XML, CSS, and because I'm on a small budget, I too must evolve with it. Or at least thats what I'm telling myself.

In the end this is my long worded way of saying there's no new comic yet, but I can confirm to you all that I am more than half way through the inking in flash. (skipped long learning flash story)

Also taking up my time recently, Movies. The two most current, Iron Man and Speed Racer. Iron Man was awesome, one of, if not the best Comic Book based movies. With the good reviews all across the board, complementing this movie any more is like beating a dead horse after every one else has.

On the other end of the review spectrum, was last weekends Speed Racer. The critics came down hard on this kids movie, but I have to say. I loved it. I was never a big fan of Speed Racer, I saw a few episodes on MTV and some of Speed Racer X which re-envisioned the original, so I came into the theater not knowing much. I was a little worried when I saw, while entering the theater, that it's a PG movie and I thought, from the trailer, that I would get annoyed that the CG is bright and that it didn't seem mesh with the live actors. But I ate it up, I felt emotional at the emotional parts, I loved the racing, and I left the theater feeling really good and surprised how much I liked it. I was also surprised by John Goodman's role of Pops. With Pops the Wachowski brothers wrote a character that is everything, that as a child, you believe that your father is, caring, strong, supporting, and come on he used a term “nonjas” from ask a ninja how cool is that. So please just give Speed Racer a chance, and judge for yourself. I just hope that I can get a chance to see both of these great movies again before they leave the theaters and that Indy 4 doesn't suck.

Well thats my time.

Later
Greg

That Time Again

2/16/2008

Happy (late) Support Greeting Card Companies Day!!!

Well the next comic story line is taking a little longer so here is a little holiday filler for the newest comic. It's based on a year old magazine gimmick. Enjoy.

Later
Greg

Newly Newness

1/11/2008

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year Everybody!!!

I know that I've been M.I.A. For a while now, but all is well now. I'm back up in Washington, it wasn't the best of moving experience but to paraphrase Steven King the past is eaten by little fuzzy monsters so ya can't go back to it. It took a little longer than I thought it would to get set up again, but kat-nap stretches and rolls over into the new year.

Well moving on. (pun intended)

There is a new comic up, My first completely paper free using a tablet. I started it on the 24th of December and had it up on the site by 2:10 A.M. On December 25th. As a present to my observant fans.

As for the guest comics request, the turn out was lack luster, ok it was nonexistent. I would still love to put some guest comics up but this time no due date. If any one is interested please submit guest comics:

to: greg at kat-nap dot com
subject: guest comic

Well I hope you enjoy the new comic in this new year.

Later
Greg

Change Places!!

6/24/2007

Greetings All.

Well I'm moving, and I don't mean the site. I'm going back up to Washington state from New Mexico where I have been living since late 2002. I'm a little nervous but I'm looking forward to it. prepping for the move has been taking up my time hence the long time in between updates, and after I get there because of the smaller house I'll have to use my tablet which I am not proficient with yet, so comic updates might be slow for a while.

I would like to put some guest comic up in the meantime and if you reading this and have a comic or are interested in making a comic for this site then please contact me at:

greg@kat-nap.com with the subject "Guest Comic"

by the 6th of July. The comics submitted will start showing up the end of July you can still submit comics up till the 30th. Thanks in advanced to all participants.

Onto the site news:

First I have a new comic, it's a quick joke not connected with the new “shopping spree” story line.

There are two new backgrounds, there both the same image but one is animated check then out in the Download section.

Lastly The S.O.T.O Faq is done for now, I'll add more to it if there are more questions about S.O.T.O.

Well there's the news.

Later
Greg

The Number 24

2/24/2007

Well it took longer than I thought it would but Kat-Nap.com Is Back in 2.0 form!!! It's Leaner, Meaner, and missing half it's stuff (Wait that last one's bad, explain later).

First off the number 24, No I don't mean the number 23. While working on the newest comic some strange coincidences around the number 24 happened. First off there are some jokes in the comic that are inspired by the show 24 that is not so strange. Next after I finished the comic and was putting it into the site I found out that it is my 24'th comic that made me laugh. I am 24 Years old and the site goes online on the 24'th. Strange but nice that I can may be get some hits because of the timing.

Presonal Blog Rant (you can skip this) :)
So I would guess some of you (the ones who have been to my site before now) might be wondering why did Kat-Nap come to a screeching halt back in early 2005 (and for all of you that are new check the comic archives when there up to see what I mean). Well a lot of not so pleasant things happened in 2004 so after one final thing (which I will not go into) I unknowing went into a little bit of a depression. Now it wasn't any thing like dropping out all together I still did some Kat-Nap stuff like make some new comics for the anime story line (which will be in the first Kat-Nap Comic Book) I just kinda went into dark and negative haze inside. Some time later a Nickelodeon cartoon came out and I freaked out since it seemed very similar to my comic which I hoped to turn in to a cartoon. So I thought that I can not compete with Nickelodeon they have staff, they have money, they have contacts in all media and I am just one disabled artist who will now be looked at like a copy cat (unintentional pun) creator of a comic that I have been working on since middle school. So I really thought that Kat-Nap was dead, which given where my mind was it was not good and I hit absolute rock bottom. Well after some soul searching and the help of my friends and family I woke up and realized that there is room for two heck look at Heathcliff and Garfield. I also realized how bad the other show was and I vowed then and there if I can't be the first than I will be the best of the two. I also realized that I only need to impress myself. So my New Comic reflects this change which is why it is called Death and Rebirth granted it is a flash back but it uses all that I have learned in photoshop (thanks Pixel Perfect) and my drawing skills to set up what will most likely be my largest story yet. Ok enough of my blogging whining, It's all is better now.

The Site News.
I rebuild the site from the code up, so no more redundant tables and sloppy code which means it will now longer take me so long to update my pages. Aside from some wonky tables every thing is great. Now to the missing bit, well I was unable to finish some of the pages on time but they will be up soon.

What's New:
Ok there are some new buttons to the site first is the New Comic button next to the logo, basically it's just as it says, it lets you know what is the newest comic along with it's number and title which are new to my comics. Next are things like animation and games. Yes there will be flash animated cartoons and games in the future, In fact I have an animation I am working on. Also I now I have a Blogg like section at the top of the news that explains what I am doing when I am not working on Kat-Nap. It also includes how I am feeling using my S.O.T.O. Technology. What Is S.O.T.O.? Well you may notice a strange little onion on my site, Well that is my S.O.T.O.. S.O.T.O. stands for State Of The Onion basically it is my emoticon, it shows how I'm feeling at the update. So Why an onion? Where did the idea come from? And aren't you just riping off the onion? I will answer these questions and more in my next update.

Well that is all for now, the order in my personal universe is restored. SoWelcome to the New and Improved Kat-Nap and enjoy the first of many new comics to come. Viva Los Gatos!

Later

Greg