Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence.

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.

You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.

Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.