The very first time I drew Gideon he was all black, and then the next number of times he’s gray. Which is weird, because he actually is all black. I suppose I was influenced by Bryan Lee O’Malley’s style (the cat’s name, after all, comes from his comics) and didn’t want the lines of his body to get lost in all the black. Later I came to realize that hiding those lines on purpose makes my drawing job a heck of a lot easier; just draw a black blob, some points for ears and white dots for eyes and then hey presto! The cat is curled up. No worries. [October 2, 2013]