John "Roxikat" Barrett went to his first furry convention in October 1995. Anxious to meet his friends from FurryMUCK, he safety-pinned pink pajamas around a pair of balloons and was crazy enough to go out in public like this. Even crazier, he's still doing it after more than a decade.
In the '90s, he published Roxikat comics in Furthest North Crew APAzine, exorcising personal demons and doing a Canadian Star Trek parody. At the same time, he was getting work in the Gold Digger Annual from Antarctic Press and drew huge boob comics for Magnificent Milkmaid #1 from White Lightning Productions. Shortly after, he got the okay to do a furry spinoff graphic novel called Gold Digger: Edge Guard from Radio Comix. He later did the art for Radio's Unusual U miniseries before disappearing from the manga scene. In Radio's annual Genus Male, John published homoerotic comics in issues #2-5 where he introduced his Game Boys characters. At FurPlanet, John published the Game Boys Summer Special 2005 where he invented the jackal/horse hybrid Hossifer. Kind of burnt out of the state of the independent comics industry in recent years, art is more a hobby lately.
With the help of his best friend Kamber of One Day Studios, he built his own Hossifer fursuit, and is getting used to fursuiting as a guy for a change.
John's outdated website is at Roxikat.com and his new stuff can be found on Furaffinity.
He's also on Livejournal and Twitter as Roxikat.
He's looking forward to seeing Canada again, haven't not been over there since being GoH at Camp Feral in 2003.
