"It was very stressful at the very beginning (becoming a syndicated comic strip artist). That's a lot on someone's sho…"

"Pretty much everything in my life culminates into these characters. Brent, one of my favorite characters, is that ann…"

"When I first got the gig, Bianca Xunise was the only person to ever ask me what it’s like writing a main character th…"

"white people just don't think about being white."

"It's all about visibility for me. It took me visually seeing another Black female doing the work for me to have my en…"

"I try to put as much of their personality into the kind of clothes that they wear and how they wear their hair or the…"

"I do like the idea that not only white people have to have adventures. So when you’re designing characters, who they …"

"when someone’s like, “Design a black character,” well, what does that mean? That could mean literally anything."

"you don’t want your stories to all be people who just have their shit together all the time. They need to be flawed b…"

"anxiety and depression can also change how you see what people are doing and what they’re saying and what [they’re] a…"