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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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