I thought this would be something a little darker and x rated than it turned out to be. It’s very clearly a way to draw fantasy and talk about imagination, but frankly this was done in promethea and in Scott McLeod’s stuff. I wanted to see what cartoonists don’t talk about: the power and idealization of comics and how much makes it in there that they don’t admit, and the different viewpoints there. I feel like simply pointing to a harem or hentai and saying “oh noes” isn’t even scratching the surface.


I felt like Alice and Miki were far more interesting than Sam here, because they are literally living in male fantasy and have to subvert or reject their assigned roles and we never really see a from scratch point of view of what they want.