At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?

Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.