Mark O'Hare, creator of the popular newspaper comic strip 'Citizen Dog', is presently a freelance storyboard artist and writer for various animated television series. From 1987 to 1990, he published an award-winning daily comic feature for the Purdue Exponent student newspaper before transferring to the California Institute of the Arts to study animation. He also made comics about the popular cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants by Stephen Hillenburg, a show he also animated and wrote for.