The name that I gave to the studio lot in Funky was Hollywoodland Studios. It’s not widely known, but the famous Hollywood sign in the hills actually started out as Hollywoodland. It was the name of and an advertisement for a development that was being built at the time. When I learned about that while I was in LA doing my research, I decided to bring it back for the studio when Lisa’s Story would be filmed.

With the teen pregnancy story arc, Funky started on its path to becoming an outlier on the comics page. I was ...