Creator, Writer, Artist
Roland 'Jim' Lowery
I was born in Hollandale, Mississippi, USA, on August 15, 1979 - making me 28 years old right now - and was raised there (or thereabouts, anyway) for the first thirteen years of my life. Fortunately, my family decided to rectify this horrible choice of living arrangements and we moved to the much nicer state of Arkansas. There I met my first real friends, who soon introduced me to the wild and exciting world of role-playing games.
Having proven fairly adept at the challenges of your standard RPG early into the venture, I quickly moved from being a simple player to being the GameMaster, controlling every aspect of my friends' imaginary lives and generally trying my best to torture them mercilessly until they begged for mercy . . . which I wouldn't give 'cause . . . y'know . . . that's what "merciless" means. I forget whether or not this was in response to the treatment they'd given my own characters when they were GMing. In fact, I believe they were pretty nice to my guys on the whole. Oh, well.
After taking care of the important business of graduating high school (or whatever), I spent a year at college. Unfortunately I had to drop out (long story) and ended up jumping from job to job for a while. Though this kept me in the poor house a great deal, it also afforded me quite a bit of leisure time to continue the pursuit of playing RPGs. Eventually, though, I found fairly steady employment for a number of years and ended up moving to Branson, Missouri with my then-girlfriend/now-estranged-wife, which cut my gaming time down to nearly nothing. I've been able to find a little time now and then to squeeze in the occasional game, however, and I also manage to take at least a little time to convey my love for RPGs in the sorta-epic saga of Role of the Die.
I still live in Branson, which is nice enough if you don't mind being surrounded by a bunch of junky live theater shows. Fortunately for me, I happen to currently work for a movie theater, which is a much nicer arrangement. When I'm not doing that (or, well, often when I am doing that, actually), I try to get some work done on my other webcomic, G for Genesis.
Cheers!
esn1g(at)yahoo(dot)com
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Former Artist
Susan Douglas
Canadian, Christian, like Cats. :)
I've also been a gamer for over 15 years. I have been LARPing for over 10. I am a computer programmer working in a call centre (more technically, I'm a web application developer). I've been officially Christian for about three years, which is about as long as I have been doing my christian comic Tracy and Tristan. The original project was called "Tarot Angels" and was about four girls you gain powers based on the four suits of Tarot.
susan(at)thecatsweb(dot)com
Former Artist
Kat Lowery
On my own comics website I had people give me some interview questions so that I wouldn't have to write one of these things...but Jim's being mean and making me write one for this site anyway. So here goes: I was raised in the middle of the woods, in a place called Dogpatch, Arkansas. No, really...remember the old Al Capp comic strip "Dogpatch USA?" Well, the place was named after that, and we actually had a little amusement park there for awhile, based off the comic strip...so I guess you can say I've been around comics in one form or another all my life.
I met Jim in college, sort of. I was actually still in high school at the time, but had decided to take some college classes on the side. After a few months and several failed tries, he finally convinced me that we should start dating, and after a few years, sometime after we'd moved here to Branson, he actually got me to (OMG) join in on an RPG session. To my surprise, I actually liked it, so still play when I can.
I drew RotD for awhile last year mainly because I wanted RotD to keep updating. I knew that other people wanted it to keep updating. And I knew that if I just left it up to Jim, he wouldn't update it. And my drawing it actually worked for awhile, until he ran out of prewritten scripts to give me. But by the time that happened, my own storybased comic was well under way, and taking longer and longer to complete...So between that and the fact that I was at the time working at one of those "junky live theatres" that Jim mentioned, I probably wouldn'tve had time to keep it up much longer anyway.
At the moment I'm still working on Distant Eras, updating twice a week and trying (without much luck) to get a buffer built back up, and starting work at a new theatre here in town.
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