Ijus. You conjured up these characters. They wost popped out of your yoan consciousness. I was just trying to come up with something that was somehow human or meaningful. And so i was leading almost sort of a double life of making things for my art classes and then doing comics at the same time. So im, you know, i can't even answer that question. It's painful to talk about cause it's all so bad.
In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Chris Ware discusses his influences – including sending a Valentine to Charlie Brown – and explains why empathy figures so heavily into his work.