"The reason why I came up with characters is because I was always interested in narrative work. I actually wanted to study film or screenwriting, but my talent was in painting. Always since I was a kid, I’ve been drawing and painting. I took a bunch of screenplay classes, at art school. I was also taking a graphic novel class—which was a writing class, basically a 10-page graphic novel class. I realized that this makes a lot of sense, this format of having repeating characters, because there’s a sense of kind of familiarity that everybody relates to."