The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

[Paper Girls] needed to have a certain kind of almost neon style to it, but at the same time we wanted also to show the modern perspective that we had.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

I don't think I've ever worked on a project [Paper Girls] that is this personal. We draw so much on our memories of growing and we're putting so much of our present day into it as well.

Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.

What I like about Paper Girls in particular is that because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more, and think more of their interiority.

Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].