Creator of the comic strip 'Arlo & Janis,' Mr. Johnson first encountered an armadillo when he was 7 years old and visiting cousins in Mobile, Alabama. He has never forgotten the experience and considers it a turning point in his life. He is uncommonly well suited to be a professional cartoonist.
When I was a boy, my father brought home a live raccoon from a turkey shoot. Now, from that, you probably think I lived some bizarre kind of childhood, but I didn’t. It really was very normal. I think.