It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

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

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.