 in books before&#151;shows that rather intriguingly.<br><br><b>Can you talk a little about how you developed the looks for the main characters? What were some of the inspirations in terms of the art of the <i>Bloom County</i> universe&#151;not just for the characters but also for the settings?<br>
</b>As many have read and few have doubted, <i>Doonesbury</i> was the stylistic key that all of us turned to in those days&#151;college cartoonists, I mean. Jules Feiffer played a similar role for Garry Trudeau. 