Kate Worley (March 16, 1958 - June 6, 2004) was an American comic book writer best known for her work on Omaha the Cat Dancer. She was also a writer and performer for the science fiction comedy radio program Shockwave Radio Theater.[1]
Biography[]
Early life and career[]
After moving in the 1970s from her native Illinois to Minneapolis, Minnesota, Worley became one of the early contributors the Shockwave Radio Theater there.[1] Through fellow contributors, she met cartoonist and musician Reed Waller, with whom she became a romantic and professional relationship.[2] Moving in together, they wrote songs and performed as a duet and with local bands, as well as being popular figures at Minicon and other science fiction conventions.[1]
Omaha the Cat Dancer[]
Created by Waller, Omaha the Cat Dancer, the story of an anthropomorphic female cat who worked as a stripper, originated as an "adult comic strip" in an "obscure local publication"[1] before evolving into a nationally distributing comic-book series. Four pages into issue #2, Waller suffered writer's block, and after some months, Worley offered "a few tentative suggestions about directions for the storyline, new characters, anything she could think of that might help...."[1] At Waller's invitation, Worley became the series' scripter.[1]
Omaha went on hiatus when Worley and Waller were both injured in a car accident; this hiatus was greatly extended when they had an acrimonious parting, after which they refused to work together.
Worley also wrote for the publisher Tekno Comix.
Personal[]
Worley later married comic book writer Jim Vance.[1] In 2002, Worley was diagnosed with cancer; she and Waller reconciled enough to produce several more issues of Omaha before she succumbed in 2004.[1]
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