 Having peaked at around 344 pounds (156 kg) by then, he subsequently lost nearly 99 pounds (45 kg) by June 2007.From 1998 until 2017, Evanier was in a relationship with Carolyn Kelly, daughter of the famed cartoonist Walt Kelly, creator of the award-winning comic strip, Pogo.Together, they arranged with Fantagraphics Books to reprint for the first time, the entirety of Pogo's run as a newspaper strip, fully restored and issued in a series of 12 hardcover volumes.