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.
This Sunday A&J originally ran in April of 2005. For the next century, comic-strip artists would stand on the shoulders of Little Nemo, and we know how perilous that could be.