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I spent many years doing freelance cartooning for General Mills and other manufacturers (my cartoons appeared on most of Big G’s kid’s cereal boxes at one time or another). As I recall, Steve stumbled across some cartoons I’d uploaded to MNArtist.org, a website run by the Walker Art Center here in Minnesota to feature local artists, and he felt my style might be appropriate for his feature (Craig was leaving to focus on other things at the time). Steve very generously offered me half the strip and we went from there, with me spending much of the first year or two struggling to match the legendary quality of his work. ....