By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

In some ways I'm very structured.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

It's really daunting when you have just spent a lot of time on something to think about tossing it out. But once you've started something better that's working right, then it's pretty easy to let the first one go.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.