Fun Home was a HUGE influence. I’d seen a lot of graphic novels but I’d seen nothing up until then that said to me, “You could do something like this.” The size and the intimacy of it made the perfect template. Once i got in a groove with it, though, I tried to keep my head down. I admire a lot of graphic novels but I find a lot of them oblique in their storytelling. Like there is some kind of rule that you can only use so many words. I think there is such a thing as being too wordy, but I love words! A great turn of a phrase can be as entertaining as a picture. You have to balance them off each other.