The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

I had difficulty being friends with women who hadn't worked in either the sex or beauty industries. I felt like other women sometimes overvalued beauty and sexuality, when in actuality, they're just parts of a job.

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.

Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen was to really watch her, in the way that only drawing someone lets me do.

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.