![]() ![]() And to be a have-not province in the country. ![]() For the ground to like be pulled out from under your feet. Because nobody chooses to lose everything. But for Atlantic Canada as a whole, the sort of rapid de-industrialization that has been happening here for a long time has led to a sense of loss, I think, that is deeply felt among people since a long time. Their cultural memory goes back a long way. But settler populations have been here for a few hundred years. And even though I really wanted to tell it, I also had to sort of be very removed and cold about it, because otherwise I would never be able to get it right, I think.īecause it’s, well, it’s home. And then I think maybe in some ways the courage and everything to make it. It took a long time to get, maybe, the skills as a storyteller, as a comic artist. I had to be very far away from those events in order to make the book in the first place. I had to refer to her as a different person, as Katie, to remove myself as the author so I could look at it as its own story. I really had to separate myself from that person. ![]() My cartoon self hasn’t changed that much. Well, I have been drawing myself since I was that age. What was it like writing about and drawing your younger self? Slate: There’s a gag early in the book where you introduce yourself in 2005, and then you say, “Well, I’m older now and also I’m three-dimensional.” ![]()
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