Our second interview comes from Charlie James, creator of The Moose Riders .

1)What is the basis of your webcomic and what insired it?

My current webcomic, The Moose Riders, is about two kids lost in the
Alaskan wilderness during a zombie outbreak.  They befriend a moose who
acts as their guardian during the ordeal.

It was inspired by my own kids and the rocking moose (think rocking horse
with antlers) my son got for Christmas when he was little.  When he was 9
and my daughter was 2 or 3, she got on the moose and he played with her.
She loved it, shrieking with laughter, and the look on his face was just
so wistful that I couldn’t help but wish they could ride on the moose
together.  That led me to drawing what would eventually become page one of
the comic.

2)Who is your favorite artist or arists?

I always liked scuplture–Bernini, Rodin, Calder.  In comics, I grew
up loving Berkeley Breathed and Bill Watterson.  Eric Powell and Tony
Moore are currently my favorite comic guys.

3)Why do you do what you do?

Well, in college I wrote a story and started turning it into a comic
with Dave Sim’s Cerebus as my model for self-publishing, but never
finished it and had no idea how I’d scrape together the money to print it
anyway.  Once I discovered webcomics, I thought that might be a good way
to get it out there.  Didn’t take long for me to lose interest in it,
though.  Then the Moose Riders idea hit me so I dusted off the comic-blog
and set to work.  So I guess the answer to the question might be “to tell
a story.”  Or maybe “to finally finish what I start?”  ”To make my kids
proud?”  I don’t know.

4)What tools do you use in your process to create your webcomic?

Non-photo blue pencil, 3H pencil, 6B pencil, and sometimes ink on
bristol board.  Then I scan it and color it in Adobe Photoshop CS3 with a
Wacom Intuos 2, and letter it in Illustrator with Blambot fonts.

5)What are your 5 favorite webcomics(other than your own and anything local)?

5) Dead Winter, Atland, The Abominable Charles Christopher, Penny Arcade,
and Oglaf (don’t tell my mom).