Yeah, young people can definitely express themselves through drawing, through strips, through all that. I know that for a fact because when I do the book tours, I always ask how many of you like to draw and I also ask how many of you like to write. Usually I ask the writing question first. I would say a third to a half of the hands go up on the writing question. The drawing, it’s the whole room.
What’s really weird though, something happens. I saw this with my own kids. They do this art when they’re six, seven, eight, nine, 10, before puberty. It’s brilliant stuff. Like all of my kids’ stuff line our hallways. And I don’t just do it because they’re my kids. I really like looking at them. The colors of the — they don’t fear judgment in any way.
And then they hit puberty and it all falls apart. They think people are judging them, looking at them. It becomes much more conscious. So yeah, I always encourage kids to do what they’re doing and to keep doing it and to be unafraid because they’re naturally that way. We change them. So I really try to encourage them. If anyone shows me their drawings at the things, I encourage them. Yeah, drawing expresses a ton of stuff.