I just always knew I wanted her to be kind of bird-like and perch on stuff. I wanted to have a short character and a tall character, because relative height is something I had trouble conveying, or remembering to convey, in Scott Pilgrim. Hazel's inspiration is just a "fashion blogger type". Katie's look was first inspired by a character in a Tezuka book - Phoenix: Nostalgia. I didn't even do a drawing of Katie or Hazel until maybe two years after I wrote down the first story ideas. So those three, Katie, Hazel and Lis, were always at the core. Then I needed a character who could be knowledgeable about the house spirit.
With Seconds, the idea of the restaurant came first- the restaurant and the chef and the house spirit. O'Malley: I don't really have a set method for character design or development. Do you have sketches of character designs that are just like "I want to hang out with this person"? And then you develop the story based on the character design? Or does the story come first, then the character, and then the design? Hazel's grandmother appears for only a couple pages in Seconds, but I liked her straightaway. Shaw: A character will appear in one of your stories and something about the way that they're drawn, or highlighted, or dressed, makes the reader immediately like them. Thanks for reading, and thanks, O'Malley, for participating. I had to ask him a few quick questions about it. I read it that day, taking naps between chapters, and I think Seconds' magic helped heal me. I got a copy of it in the mail on a day when I was sick. His cartooning is more mature in this book, and, for me, more charming. Seconds takes a chef opening a new restaurant and places her inside of a world of house spirits and magic mushrooms.
Scott Pilgrim dramatized twenty-something dating using the language of videogames. Like Scott Pilgrim, it marries real world troubles with fun, supernatural elements. Seconds is Bryan Lee O'Malley's first book since finishing his Scott Pilgrim series. Features A Second with Bryan Lee O’Malley
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