This strip came out of a passing joke I made to Izak – I didn’t really think twice about it, but he instantly saw it as a comic. It took a little while to figure out how work it visually – the ideal scenario would be if we made one of those ultra-long, skinny portrait strips but to keep in the Izak Smells format a little bit of creative thinking was required. Once you land on the final solution, it almost always seems obvious but it’s rarely as straightforward as it seems.