2003
When I first started working on Space Pops, I often wrote randomly off the top of my head. Although this method yielded some fairly entertaining material, I would often go off on a tangent, and end up with stacks of disjointed and confusing comics.
My other approach was to portray personal experiences using characters that were based on myself and people I knew. But I wasn’t interested in creating a cartoon about my life, especially since I had already done an autobiographical comic strip while in college.
After many years of mental excavation, I finally invented a world that represents aspects of my life experience, but whose characters and premise are completely different from any real people or places I may have known or visited. So now I feel free to express myself completely, while at the same time maintaining my privacy.
This comic strip is very personal to me, but since it isn’t about me, a wide variety of people can see themselves in it. And when others are entertained by it, and tell me that they relate to it, it’s the greatest feeling in the world as an artist.
