In 1998, I created the comic strip her! as a replacement for Convenience Store, a cartoon I was drawing for the now defunct react magazine (circulation 4.5 million). React wanted me to start doing my cartoons in color and I wanted to shop Convenience Store around to the cartoon syndicates, so I used the opportunity to show them a brand-new, full-color cartoon called her! about a girl and a pig... and they agreed! One of the first iterations of the strip involved the pig and a waiter living on a deserted island. Terrible!
The girl and pig had a good run until June 5, 2000 when the heavily-in-debt react shut down for good.
In June 2001, I started drawing her! again...this time as a web-only comic strip!
