Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.

I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.