| Taiki : The Webcomic It is about a girl named Taiki and her life in her second half of high school and what it's like to discover her sexuality and all the crazy stuff that comes with that. Originally it was supposed to be a 50/50 autobiography of my life, but it has started evolving into something of it's own. There are some situations based on things that really happened while other parts are going to be there just for fun and to make it more interesting. Which means that a few of the characters in this are based off of real people that I know and that's what makes it fun to draw. =D Oh and if you're offended by homosexuality, then please, click the little X at the top righthand corner of your browser. = ) |
| Q . Why a webcomic? A. Well I started designing the characters in 2003/04 and after a while they just started coming together. In the summer of 2006 when I started college I had a lot of free time and my friends kept telling me that they wanted to read the story I was always drawing the characters for. So I started the comic at first for just me and my friends to read and after a while other people started finding it and liking it, so then I decided to make it for everyone. Q. Why Taiki? A. When I was in middle school, I moved to a new school and got a new group of friends who were anime junkies like I was. The entire group had Sailor Moon nicknames for which every Sailor Scout they were most like. After I came into their group they decided that I was most like Taiki (Sailor Star Maker) because I at the time had long brown hair and glasses. haha The name just stuck so I went with it as my online username for everything. Q. Why do you suck with your update schedule? A. I'm sorry about that, I really am. When I first started the comic, I had a strict M/W/F update schedule, but after I started my new college, that wasn't possible anymore. I work full time in a retail store and I also work for a avatar community website as an item designer. Plus I do other non-Taiki artwork on the side. So even when I don't have time to update, don't think that I forget about it. It's quite the oppisite. I usually start freaking out and telling myself "oh my god.. I haven't updated in __ days! My readers are going to hate me!" Q. Why is Taiki's hair white in the comic even though her hair is brown? Shouldn't it be darker since Alex's is also white and she's blonde? Taiki, Nikki, and Haruka are the main characters in the comic and originally I wanted them each to have a different shades of hair in the actual comic. Nikki's was obviously black and Haruka's is light grey so I made Taiki's white. I wanted them to have contrasting hair colors to each other. Also later in the comic they will eventually change their hair/hair colors so I wanted to leave room to make it more noticible since I already have it planned out. Q. What is that triangle thing that Taiki always wears on her shirt? A. Well since this is kinda based off of my life and Taiki represents me, I wanted her to have a symbol to represent my obsession with the brand Volcom. I love Volcom and since I can't use that actual logo, Taiki has the broken triangle symbol. Besides the fact that it's also like the logo for this comic now. haha Q. What's with the band? They don't even have a name. A. Originally the only 2 band members that were ever going to be shown was Kai and his best friend. I didn't have a design for a best friend for Kai that I liked so I held the Design a Character Contest and Marco was the one that won first place. I liked the 2nd place and 3rd place winners so much that I wanted to put them in the comic as well, so I gave them minor roles as the other 2 band members that weren't originally going to be shown. The reason there isn't a name for the band is because it wasn't supposed to have such a big role in the comic and I never named it. Though I do like the direction it went and if anyone has any suggestions for a name, let me know. =) The reason I put a band in the comic in the first place was because at my high school there was a popular group of kids that did start a band and it was pretty popular among the students so I wanted to show that. Q. Why is there no link back to the webcomic on the forums? A. I can't put one on because it's a free forum account. I have to upgrade my account to put one on. And I would but I can't find how to upgrade or how much it is. Q. What do you do with the donation money? A. I put it towards advertising on other sites and to help pay for the domain that I own. None of it goes to personal use. Also, if I get more donations, I plan on investing in new unique products for the webcomic. Q. Are you gay? A. If you really want to know, I am a lesbian. Q. Are you single? A. I don't know why people keep asking me this. haha Does it really matter? :P That's all I can think of right now so yeah... I hope I answered what you wanted to know. |
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| Taiki : The author/artist Name : Laura Knatt Nickname : Taiki Age : 22 Birthday : February 3rd Location : Arizona, USA Hobbies : Drawing, writing comic stories, reading webcomics/manga, playing video games, and visiting art galleries. Favorites! Artists : Tessa Stone & Tyson Hesse Shows : South of Nowhere, The L Word, Project Runway Movies : D.E.B.S., V For Vendetta, Zombieland, Jennifer's Body Anime : Mai-HiME, Burst Angel Manga : NANA, Yozakura Quartet, Stray Little Devil Games : Kingdom Hearts, Pokemon, Metal Gear Solid Series ( Contact me! ) Other places you can find me : DeviantArt GaiaOnline Art Blog Smackjeeves |
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