Transcription: I didn't decide to have the characters age. They more or less took on a life of their own and they started to grow up in spite of me. When I began drawing Michael Patterson, he was a little round-headed kid and looked, I suppose, a little bit like my own son. And because the characters are aging and changing, his face especially and his quality of life, he's a very, very course his body type has altered appreciably through the years. He now sports a beard and a rather unruly hairdo and so he's growing and changing. I think the drawing of all the characters has matured and become much more soph ...