I am reading an interview with Cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Right away he gets to the essence of comic art:

In my line of work, one is always hunting for that essentialization. Comics do that especially well. They permit you to boil down an image and a thought to its essence, with the two circuits mixing the words and images.

He talks about Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.

What I admired about her was that she had taken so long to gestate her first book—she was nearly fifty, I think—and that she had to relearn how to draw after West Nile virus left her unable to hold a pencil.

Wow, a first book at fifty? I will need to look into this book and it’s author. And put Spiegleman’s Maus book on my wish list.