The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

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

I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.

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

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.