Hi! I'm Steve Hanov, the creator of Square Wave.
Square Wave started at the University of Waterloo in 2001. I was trying to procrastinate while studying for exams, so instead of studying I drew comic strips. I made ten initial strips, which I submitted to Imprint a few months later. The student newspaper printed them, and all was good. The comic strip ran under the name "Number's Game" because it was about math students trying to get girlfriends -- which was my situation at the time.
Later on, I graduated and began to work at Research in Motion. I work as a programmer, and every day I have to deal with expensive radio test equipment and sheilded rooms and all of the things that you see in the comic today.