378: Gary Barker from Pet Force 2014 Kurt Sasso Comics, Podcast, Shows, TGT Media, Topic A Comic Artist and now College Professor. The “co-developer” of Pet Force with Garfield staff writer, Mark Acey. The books originally published by Scholastic were written by Michael Teitelbaum. We talk with Artist Gary Barker about comics, webcomics, his students, successes and failure in the industry and his creativity after all these years.