Hello! I'm not exactly a new poster - I signed up here and posted a few time a while back, but it had been so long that I couldn't even remember the login name I was using, so I made a new one.
Anyway, something I've been wondering about for a while now: I've noticed that all of the main female characters have "short" hair, i.e. not one of them has hair that reaches her shoulders (though some of the side characters, like Penelope and the morgue chick have longer hair, but even Penelope always has her hair "up" in a ponytail).
I know plenty of young women in the same general age group as the strip's characters, and among them long (past the shoulders) hair is certainly common enough, even in the majority.
So I've got to wonder, is this simply artistic preference on Jeph's part, or is the "short" hair a characteristic of "indie chicks" (a group I'm not all that familiar with, probably because I'm too old)?