![]() McNeil: Well, it's a pretty fluid process. How much was that something Sara asked for in the script and how much was you going, "What if we did."? There are a lot of entertaining little touches in the book - the way some of the historical and expository parts are depicted for example. ![]() How much research into this subject did you do? I can't really imagine another artist getting them right. Something I didn't expect: Carla's drawings of the characters have become precisely how I see them all in my head. Ryan: The comics I wrote before "Bad Houses" definitely helped develop my sense of visual storytelling, and writing prose novels gave me a certain amount of confidence that I could manage a longer, more complex narrative in the format. ![]() How much did writing those short stories help before tackling something longer like "Bad Houses," and what did you not expect about working on a comic of this length? Ryan: Because the book is so concerned with people's relationships to objects and the impact of objects in their environments, I really wanted readers to be able tosee the objects, not just visualize them from prose descriptions. You've worked on a few short comics previously such as "Me and Edith Head," but I think it's fair to say that people know you from your novels. ![]()
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