Kixie in The Cartoonist’s Nightmare by Terry Moore

Terry Moore had an interesting path to becoming the well-known and successful writer/arist of comic books like Strangers in Paradise, Rachel Rising, and many others. He was a musician and a video editor before taking his talents into self-published stories.

Along the way, he created several unsold comic strips because like most cartoonists, he wanted to be in the paper. His books Paradise, too and the recent, as of this writing, The Really Complete Paradise, Too printed some of those strips.

One of the strip concepts was an impish fairy named Kixie. She is a fairy with an attitude.

One of the perks from the Kickstarter campaign mentioned above was one of the strips. In my strip which dates to 2002, Kixie haunts the dreams of her cartoonist who strongly resembles Terry Moore. It made me laugh and I'm glad I got it as my perk.