Xanni: neither do ours. Midwesterners mock me regularly. I know it's jealousy.

Medical reasons.

It is indeed digital. Done entirely using the various "pencil" tools in Manga Studio. I use Manga Studio to generate all my comics, these days; anything you've seen from me since the end of Ozy and Millie, at least, has been made at least partly using it. One thing I love about making comics digitally is, it's as easy to erase a pixel as to make it. Or alternately, white is no more complicated to achieve than black. Almost any time I draw Girl, unless it's on paper in my sketchbook, her hair involves white strokes laid atop black ones. It makes an effect that previously was painstaking and imperfect, suddenly blindingly easy.

Some similarity is inevitable, though, of course. I'm the same person, if a little older and wiser, as when I dreamed Millie up, and Millie and Girl are both in large part self-portraits.

Thanks, Captain Kirk. :)