On these streams with Deb Lee, we dove into the world of sequential art and each created a short-form comic! We also talked a lot about each other's origin stories as illustrators: Deb emailed me when she was a senior at CMU, we met up and got boba, and then she worked with me as an assistant during her senior year (thoughtful cold outreach does pay off — do your research, be respectful, and go for it!). She's completely come into her own as an illustrator and graphic novelist.