What began as a little story written to make a friend happy has grown into a multi-part adventure with an astonishing fan-base. Now, by popular demand, Nekobe, the gentle leonine from Kenya, has been given his own page where his stories can be told, his picture can be seen, and more people can get to know him as I do.

Nekobe

Written for Rogue's friend Lyon, and considered by some to be his best work. How would you react if you found out that the same fantastic, furry anthropoid you had dreamed about for years was not only real, but working in the same building as you?

Nekobe's Birthday

The response to Nekobe was incredible. This little bit, more of a day-in-the-life study than an actual story, was put together for all the folks who wanted to see more of Nekobe.

Nekobe: At the Gym

As promised, the stories continue. Here, Nekobe decides he wants to get a membership at the local gym, despite Shawn's misgivings.

March Comes In Like a Lion

All good things must come to an end. There is a time when to even our most precious loved ones, we must say goodbye for the last time.

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Without Lyon, there would be no Nekobe. He was lamenting to me one day that there were no stories on the net that really touched on his innermost fantasies. I said to him, "Tell me your dreams. I'll write you a story."

Nekobe was the result. According to Lyon, I managed to capture his dreams pretty well...and those of a lot of other people in the process, judging from the very nice mail I get.

Lyon, it just so happens, is himself an artist of some renown in the furry community, as well as a noted expert on great cats. With his permission, I am including here some of the drawings he created shortly after I sent him the story. Each is as faithful an image of Nekobe as you are going to find.

Note that these pictures are older, dating back to a time when the main character of this story spelled his name a bit differently. That old spelling, now, is reserved for an honest-to-goodness African lion that Lyon may tell you about sometime if you are nice to him.

Jax (JamesPokmn@aol.com) did this drawing to go along with Nekobe's Birthday. He sent it to a friend who sent it to me along with some nice fan mail. I rather adore the picture, particularly because it is easy for me to imagine the subject being about 100 feet tall. That's how my mind works, though. Here's to Jax for granting me leave to share it.

Lionus Goldenmane sent me these drawings of Nekobe -- all right, I asked him to. I am fond of his art, since he manages to convey a certain warmth and feeling in the faces of his characters. I think the first picture captures Nekobe's personality quite well, while the second effectively captures his other attributes.

I bumped into Nakira (known to many as Wookiee) at a convention and proceeded to slobber very shamefully over him. He is one of the best artists I have ever encountered. I asked him if he cared to read my story and perhaps draw some inspiration from it for a picture. He agreed, and I sent it to him. I understand that he enjoyed it immensely and did indeed find the inspiration for an illustration or two.

First he sent along a few rough sketches he'd done (and which are provided here by his kind permission). He asked, "Which do you like best?" Naturally, all I could say was, "All of them!" He finally settled on his own pose, inspired by the scene in the first story where Nekobe models for Shawn for the first time. What Wookie has created is precisely what I imagine Shawn would have drawn that day.