I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager. I like being around teenagers. It's good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They're mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

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.

Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.