And so, I acquired all of this knowledge, and I didn’t have anywhere to put it just yet. And I started working in New York City as a magazine writer and editor, I worked for Country Living magazine for eight years actually. And, and I became a very proficient writer, and proofreader, and copy editor, and all that sort of thing, and I still wanted to cartoon on the side. So, I did a web comic early on, back in like 1997 when there really weren’t web comics practically.
And that started, that led me to my technique that I used for Babymouse and Squish where I do all of my final art digitally using a special stylus that lets me draw straight into the computer. And I did that at the time in the late 90s because I couldn’t afford a scanner because scanners for computers were so expensive that I couldn’t afford to draw it out, and ink it on paper, and scan it in to get it online, so instead I just had a little tablet that was small and cost like 99 dollars, and I drew on that, and that’s how I got things digitally.
But I got used to that process, and being able to easily erase, or undo things, and move things around digitally, and recompose your image. And so I got proficient at that. And then when we finally got to Babymouse, and had the opportunity when, when Jenny was publishing her own children’s books, and could get us into meetings to sell Babymouse then I’m like, this is how I’ll actually do it.
