About Nine Stitches

Back in 1994, Greg Sepelak came up to me and said, "Hey. I want you to draw a comic."

So I did. And thus was born Transient, which has nothing to do with this story.

A few years later, though, I was in school and wanted to draw a comic for the school paper. Transient wouldn't work in a weekly format, and besides... I wanted a new story. Taking hints and motifs from various anime series which had nothing to do with Transient, thus was born Nine Stitches. The comic ran for three semesters in The East Carolinian, but the chance for an exchange program in Japan put a premature end to the series.

But now, thanks to the magic of the 'net and Keenspace -- able to survive even a dot-com bust -- Nine Stitches is back! The plan is for a new strip to be up every Thursday in an attempt to improve my meager art skills. Despite a stint in art school, I feel that the steepest increase in my drawing ability came with work on Transient and the first incarnation of Nine Stitches, so I hope to continue the trend.

-- Andre, 2002.04.07

Credits:
Special thanks to the following people, in no particular order:
Greg Sepelak, Jenn Thompson, Russ (from Capital Comics), Mom, Dad, Robbie Proseus, Terry Johnson, Todd Harper, Lilly Hadley, Robert Jenner, and all you other people who read the comics back then and gave me encouragement.