I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and it's been wonderful to see what's going on in contemporary comics.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

My dad is a workaholic so I take after him in this respect.

I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

Truth can hurt so very much.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.