John "Roxikat" Barrett went to his first furry convention in October 1995. Anxious to meet his friends from FurryMUCK, he safety-pinned pink pajamas around a pair of balloons and was crazy enough to go out in public like this. Even crazier, he's still doing it after more than a decade.

In the '90s, he published Roxikat comics in Furthest North Crew APAzine, exorcising personal demons and doing a Canadian Star Trek parody. At the same time, he was getting work in the Gold Digger Annual from Antarctic Press and drew huge boob comics for Magnificent Milkmaid #1 from White Lightning Productions. Shortly after, he got the okay to do a furry spinoff graphic novel called Gold Digger: Edge Guard from Radio Comix. He later did the art for Radio's Unusual U miniseries before disappearing from the manga scene. In Radio's annual Genus Male, John published homoerotic comics in issues #2-5 where he introduced his Game Boys characters. At FurPlanet, John published the Game Boys Summer Special 2005 where he invented the jackal/ horse hybrid Hossifer. Kind of burnt out of the state of the independent comics industry in recent years, art is more a hobby lately.

With the help of his best friend Kamber of onedaystudios.com, he built his own Hossifer fursuit, and is getting used to fursuiting as a guy for a change.
John's outdated website is at www.roxikat.com which presently links to his FurAffinity account.