So, you've been working on the Dinklemeyer strip for "years," have you? Were they just doodles that took on a life of their own, or have you always had cartoonist aspirations?
They were doodles that took lives of their own. I started drawing them when I was 17, in my last year of High School (5 years ago). I remember just being miserable in school, so I started doodling in class and it just sort of grew and grew and grew.
The last one I drew was actually on the last day of school, and that's sort of the "shocking ending," but we're still a long way from that.