About the Site

The idea for Necrogenesis must have popped into my mind sometime in 2006 while I was listening to a conversation about how nice it would be to go back and do everything all over again with the same knowledge you have now. This concept churned around in my head for a while as I slowly began to put together a plot... I still have some of the older drafts for the series. The very beginning has only changed slightly from version to version, but after that they start to become pretty different. It actually hurts a bit to look at the old versions, though I may bring myself to post them somewhere one day.

By the spring of 2008, I had gone through at least two or three of these proto-versions, none of which were longer than ten pages. I then saw in my course book for the next year an "Independent Study" course, which basically allowed you to make up your own art course. I decided that making a comic as schoolwork would be a good way to get me to actually keep working on it!

So far it probably doesn't look like much, as only one whole page has actually been completed. It is storyboarded up to the second chapter though, which I think will guide me through the at least next twenty pages. Other than that, Julianna has been diligently working on the site itself, changing the colours and adding new links to the sidebar at my request. I couldn't have made a site that looked this nice by myself, in fact, and it would have looked like something straight out of the web 1.0 era completely written in basic HTML with no more than four solid colours throughout the whole site.

At this point, I must also credit Emily Scherer and Killian Hawk. Scherer refreshes the pages constantly while it's being tweaked for hours, telling us that the comic page is five pixels too far to the left, or that the shade of brown in the sidebar is different than all the other browns on the site. And Killian has helped provide site advice too, getting us to change the background colour from grey to yellow and to put a border around the comic.

It's been a lot of work, but we still try very hard to make the comic as wonderful as we can.

Leigh Koszarsky

I'm the creator of the comic; I do all the drawing, inking, colouring, lettering and writing. I've been drawing for basically my entire life, but I only started working with Copic markers in 2006. I like ball-jointed dolls and listening to NPR's live program stream.

Julianna Rinaldo

I'm the programmer-of-sorts that made the site. I'm the one who keeps an eye on our bandwidth limit and uploads the images and pages every month. I love coding the site (writing CSS makes me particularly happy), but I also enjoy reading comics and playing World of Warcraft in my spare time. I have an ever-growing collection of Transformers and various other anime-related figures and statues in my room, much to the dismay of my parents who want me to save my money.