Curious: Kim Parkhurst?

[furtech]

I was telling someone about a neat online comic about a greyhound drawn by Kim Parkhurst. The name of the comic (and site) was, "Turbospud". The site is long-gone. When I Googled her names, I found nothing after about 2003. Does anyone have any idea what happened to her? Or is she just another great artist who just went *poof* and disappeared off the face of the earth?

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[lyosha.livejournal.com]

Was that the one about the greyhound?

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's her. Here's one of her old link-labels:

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember seeing a blurb at Turbospud a few years ago giving the usual excuses of time constraints for the lack of the comic's progress. It quickly seemed to completely lose its steam. Later, I read that she wanted to get more into "real art" and was going to focus into that direction, whatever direction that was.

Short story.. her life and career went into a less public direction.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Yeah...she did maintain an art account at Epilogue for a while (not updated since 2003):
http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/list.pl?gallery=4844

And she has an Ebay site that is apparently currently active:
http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=redslurpee

According to the info on the Ebay site (which I just found), she's moved to the wilds of Massachusetts and is still doing art. I just find it weird that she seems to have -no- online presence other than this Ebay site. The toadbriar.com site is a single page with no real content. Even the Greyhound Rescue orgs that she used to do work for have not been able to contact her.

I guess I'm partially disappointed that she gave up on the greyhound strip and very curious as to why she did the "falling off the face of the internet" thing.

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

I tried turbospud.com in the Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org/) [archive.org] and got some hits, but it looks like recent ones got taken over by some gambling link or something. Oh well.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Cool link! I'll have to put "Wayback Machine" in my bookmark file! I was able to get all of the Turbospud strips except for "Grey vs. Grey #7" (*grrr*). If anyone has that one archived I'd love to get a copy!

[dustmeat.livejournal.com]

I chatted with her in IM 2 years ago. Her real name is not Kim Parkhurst, it turns out. She is doing art professionally now and living in New England, and still rolls her eyes at Furrydom. I am not sure what happened to TurboSpud. Her IM name was monkeycarcass I do believe.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Most people (even a lot of furry fans) roll their eyes at furry fandom. Her Ebay account is still current: at this point I'm just curious as to why she stopped doing Turbospud. I guess I should just email her at her Ebay addy, but it feels awkward asking about things like that. Her current stuff is technically spiffy, but seems (to me) to lack the life that her comic work had. There are a lot of equally good artists doing the type of formal fantasy art she's now doing; no one had come close to the fun her greyhound strips achieved.