I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.

When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.