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Kota

on April 22, 2007

On this day seven years ago I decide to do something I'd never done before. I started a web comic called Kota's World. I thought it would be good practice for when I "made it big" in the comic book world. It was also an experiment in a lot of ways to see if I could do a comic by my lonesome.
Five years later Kota's World ended in a somewhat coherent fashion and I took a small break before lunging into three other series. Only one is still going right now. I'm happy to say that on the seventh anniversary of the beginning of my "career" in webtoons that I'm still going, I'm updating, and I'm happier now than I've ever been.
Thank you to everyone on Drunk Duck and the readers of Sweatshop Stuidos for your continued support and attention. It really means the world to me. I'd like to once again take a moment and thank some people who have helped me over the years and that continue to help me keep this thing going. They are, in no particular order:
Tim Shea, Scott Gallatin, Scott and Aimee Cole, Paul "Geebo" Hamblin, Barry "Lewis" Jackson, Mike "NLN" Rutherford (for early coloring work), Warren "Encrypt" Hogue, Steve "Voyager" Davis, David Davis, Dylan Squires (for keeping the Duck alive), Toughy (for sticking with me all these years as a reader), Catamount, Blu, Inkmonkey, God, Ted Hayman, Cindi Hayman, Byron Galloway, Kenneth Quinn and Mr. Hugh Leggette. If I've left anyone out, you know who you are and I'm sorry. Seriously though, a big thank you to EVERYONE that's been reading and I hope you'll stick with me. Things get even better from here on in!
I'd also like to rededicate these works to two people who influenced my life more than I would have imagined and who passed on during the run of Kota's World. My mother Robbie Joyce Hayman and Douglas Noel Adams.