You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.

I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue.

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

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.

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

Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.