Quotes from Bryan Lee O'Malley

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.