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

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

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.

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.

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.

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood