During my initial period of obsession (I like to call it research) I looked at as much information on pandas as I could find. My local library had a copy of an old National Geographic video called Secrets of the Wild Panda.  I thought, “oh boy! gossip and innuendo!”  But it turned out to be fairly factual (read: boring,- as if anything about pandas could be boring!)  So I thought I should make my own version of Secrets of Pandas:

I also began to think about various news items I would hear about on the radio and think, “How would this relate to pandas?”

Personally, I don’t think I was so far off.

Tomorrow (and I swear I’m working on new cartoons…) The 2008 earthquake in China.

Be the Bear!