When I Was WORKING At The GAME Company, I Wasn't Just Doing Graphic DESIGN, I Was Doing The Entire Product MANAGEMENT, So I Would Do The Graphic Design, I Would Create The Advertisements, Even The Catch Copies. I Would Figure Out What Kind Of Packaging And Design Of The Packaging, So I Was BASICALLY Doing Total Product Management At That Time.

Like 'Metro' And 'Motor,' 'Troublemaker' Is Written In First PERSON. The Only Narration That Happens Is Barney Speaking To The Reader/thinking In Her HEAD. First Person Was A BIG Challenge In The Graphic Novel Because We WANT Both Men And Women Of All Ages To Enjoy 'Troublemaker.'

Writing A Graphic NOVEL Is HARD. It FEELS Closer To A SCREEN Play Than To A Novel.

For 'American Born CHINESE,' My First Graphic Novel With First SECOND Books, I Did Mostly 'memory' RESEARCH. It's FICTION, But I PULLED Heavily From My Own Childhood.

I've Read Comics All My LIFE And Have WANTED To Write A Comic For As Long As I Can REMEMBER. Alex Barnaby And SAM Hooker Seemed Like The Perfect Team To Make The Move Into The GRAPHIC Medium.

My Platform Has Been To Reach Reluctant Readers. And One Of The BEST Ways I Found To MOTIVATE Them Is To Connect Them With READING That Interests Them, To Expand The Definition Of Reading To Include Humor, SCIENCE Fiction/fantasy, Nonfiction, Graphic Novels, Wordless Books, Audio Books And Comic Books.

I WEAR The Same Thing Every Day. I Always Pack TWO BLACK Jackets, Loads Of Black T-shirts, Loads Of White JEANS. I Feel A Little Fresh And Glamorous And Graphic.

I Wanted To Create Rouje To BRING TOGETHER My Talented Friends - Photographers, Stylists, Graphic DESIGNERS - In A Project To Create My UNIVERSE And Perfect DRESSING. I Did Not Want To Call The Brand My Name, Because I Have Other Projects, And This Brand Is The Result Of The Work Of Several People And Not Just Me.

I REALLY LIKE Books That You Can Kind Of Hear As MUCH As THINK About, That Are So Graphic And VISUAL.

My REAL Background Was In Art Studies. At The Beginning I Was A Painter, Then I Was This Graphic Designer, Then I Became An Illustrator, Then I Was A Comic ARTIST. But For Me It's A Different WAY Of EXPRESSION, A Different Field Of Art. They're Not Separated; EVERYTHING For Me Is Related.