“I just found Edmonton a very intriguing place haha. I was kind of like exploring it and getting to know it. I think it’s obvious from my comics that I’m very interested in the specificity of location.” press which was “Wow I’m in this new place and life is so exciting!” I just found Edmonton a very intriguing place haha. Its probably because I was living alone and I didn’t really know anybody there. I was kind of like exploring it and getting to know it. I think it’s obvious from my comics that I’m very interested in the specificity of location. So that was like my first comics. It was just about this city that I found really intriguing. Comics were a way of “Okay, I don’t really know how to write yet. But I’m interested in comics and I can draw.” So this seemed like the easiest and cheapest and most direct way of doing it. So that’s when I started making comics. Then my cousin got an opportunity from a friend to publish a the first version of Skim. so that was like an outside thing where someone was like “Hey! Do you want to make a comic?” and I was
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like “Yeah totally! I don’t know what I’m doing. Sure, lets make a comic!” That’s amazing that you had like these three separate art identities right out of school! What was giving you the energy to make so much different work? Were a lot of the jobs coming from opportunities you got in college? It all happened at once. So this was all 2004 I would say. It was really actually shocking to me how fast the editorial stuff started coming about. It was weird. I was working at Bioware, I was working making comics sometimes at night, and I would be getting calls from the local altweekly and calls from the New York Times or the New