Tiffany Babb, Publishers Weekly:
“Why animals?
I think I first started to create some separation between myself and the avatar I was writing jokes with. I will often break the boundaries of reality, and it feels easier since they’re all cartoon animal people. If I was drawing pictures of myself and my friends and family and people I know, it just feels too close to home. I just finished this graphic novel about my family, losing my dad and grief. In that context, them being animal people adds a sense of levity. It’s easy to talk about dead dads and grief when the dad’s an owl and my brother’s a bear.”
Read the full interview on Publishers Weekly’s website here!
