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

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

I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.

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

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

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.