Kris ★ 1998 ★ Non-Binary★ They/Them
Heya!
I'm Kris and I'm a cartoonist and comic artist from the west US! I've been drawing consistently since I was about 5 or so, and I started taking art seriously when I was around 18! I've been active online since 2009. I'm also really, really enthusiastic about space, aliens, and worldbuilding!
I'm currently working on my long form webcomic, Star Quest! I also have many other story projects, big and small, that I'm working on as well!
My largest project, the Cinnaverse, is at the heart of what I do! It's a worldbuilding project I started between 2009 and 2011 and acts as an extended hub for all of my stories.
SONA
This silly billy you see around the site is my sona! Their name is Nebby!
ABOUT THE SITE
Cinnamuff's Galaxy launched on November 13, 2020, however I didn't get around to fleshing out the site until about a year later, in October 2021. It's currently hosted on Teacake and has mirrors on Neocities and Nekoweb.
It was created around the time I was beginning to leave deviantART, after being frustrated with the site's decisions around the time and wanting to put all of my art in storage. Initally I built this site as an art archive gallery, but it became so much more with the amount of ideas I had flooding in!
It's currently on v3, previous versions and all of their changes can be found in the Layout Archive!
Why a Personal Site?
I've always liked the idea of having your own little space online! It's something that was entertained to me back in 2007 with Suta-Raito along with many others. I even remember having dreams about it as a kid, but I didn't learn how to code and didn't know where to start. Some of the only coding experience I had prior to creating The Galaxy was playing around with the HTML on deviantART's custom boxes, back when you could code on the site if you were a premium member.
When I was introduced to Neocities sometime in early 2020, I wanted to try creating a personal site again and I was determined to do so! I initially wanted this site to be an archival site for my past and recent art as I was moving away from deviantART as my main gallery and wanted to start moving away from social media altogether. While working on it I realized it could be so much more, so I was even MORE determined to get it off the ground!
I think it's important for people online to have a apersonal site of their own. As an artist who remembers the days of customizable deviantART, YouTube, and Twitter pages, seeing the slow removal of these features really!! Rubbed me the wrong way! Limitations were added and none of them were fun to use as they were back in the day. Neocities offers what the most used sites doesn't, and I love that about Neocities. It's freeing!
