I never thought too much about animals in general until I met Alma.  She really gets a kick out of them, so we take any opportunity we can to go to zoos, or natural history museums.  She inspired the first series, an now she has suggested I do this new series based on a conversation we had recently.  

      So the way I remember it was that I brought up the fact that someday in the future people will likely be asking God: “So what’s up with the Platypus? What were you thinking there?”  and then I imagined he would just say: “It is what it is.”

     We got a good laugh over that and I said: “You know, that would make a good series for me to do, all the weird, but fascinating creatures.”  She loved the idea and the more we talked about it, the more it sounded like a legitimately good idea. The bigger difference with this series is that like the animals themselves, there won’t be any style or medium tying them together.  It will be whatever strikes my fancy.  So here is the first one:

We just saw these at the L.A. Zoo a couple weeks ago.  The are like a cross between a giraffe and a deer.

I dig it.