Kazu Kibuishiwas 24 years old and working full-time in the animation industry when he began developing the idea of doingFlight. He began contacting his friends in the animation, comics, and graphic novel world to see if they would want to join the project. He now works from his home studio in Pasadena, California, creating and promotingFlightand his popular young adult comicDaisy Kutter, which was nominated as an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults-the only graphic novel on the list in 2005.