I try and make sure that each book is different because it takes a long time for me to do a book. It takes a minimum a year and I’m living in that book for that whole entire year. I feel it would not be interesting to me to repeat myself, and I don’t think it would be interesting for anybody else for me to repeat myself. I do try and keep myself challenged.
When I look for a manuscript that maybe I’m going to illustrate that I didn’t write I usually recognize it as something that is so exciting and something I don’t understand and it’s almost a puzzle that I want to be confronted with for that year. That is what pulls me in. If I’m reading something and I know what it’s gonna look like a year later that’s not that compelling to me.