Drake Ullingsworth and his Dog were invented in 1983. They're my most problematic characters and I never know what to do with them. It's taken me years to find a way to draw them satisfactorily. The early work made excessive and very clumsy use of Letratone, to add to the vague film-noir elements of the story (Drake's job is as some sort of undefined private detective, who later in his life discovers he has very unreliable psychic powers). Still, Phil Elliott and David Vodicka seemed to like the characters enough to run them regularly in Fast Fiction and Fox Comics respectively. One or two readers suggested that the Dog (who always talked out loud to Drake) represented some form of repressed sexuality, or a manifest Id. I liked this idea well enough to concoct the much later and unpublished Drake Meets Fantomas story, which is so outrageous and obscene that it's far better that it never sees print.