When I design a character, it’s very important to me that a four-year-old can reasonably draw that character, because I think that the book is only part of the experience. Reading is only part of the experience. I want those characters to become so alive that kids create their own comics and their own books, using my characters — in the same way that I started out drawing Charlie Brown and then developed my own characters. I’m designing this character to be as simple as possible, so that a four-year-old can draw it and at the same time, putting him or her in these crazy positions.
