Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

She has given me a way out.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.