You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade. I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.