Are you reading any manga these days? I remember reading the first comic of yours i saw and thinking you were manga influenced, but maybe I just imagined it.

 Yes! I’ve read a bunch of manga lately.

  • Reread all my Yokoyama books. Travel is the best but they’re all so good.
  • Pink by Kyoko Okazaki. I like how fast and loose it’s drawn; it’s interesting how that sometimes works really well but some panels are off the mark completely.
  • Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa (not done yet). I’m very into shoujo generally of late, especially because I read almost exclusively shonen stuff growing up.
  • I got two Leiji Matsumoto books in Japanese for my birthday, excited to dig into those.

The way I draw is definitely less overtly manga-ish than it once was. In some ways I think I’d like my stuff to be more manga influenced?