![]() ![]() I struggled a lot with it, and realized that there are things other people can do with images that I can’t, and that my fluency is in writing. ![]() It’s been a while since I’ve drawn! I took a comic book making class in grad school in 2016 because I thought I wanted to make a What Big Teeth comic book. How often is drawing/doodling a part of your writing process? In an interview with Publisher’s Weekly you talk about the idea for What Big Teeth beginning when you drew a family tree of monsters. We had a family friend who had a Lurch-like groan, and my godmother was this kind of witchy character who lived in a cottage right down the road from my parents’ house, and so it was a really easy comparison to make. As a child, the family made a lot of sense to me–they had a large extended family that wasn’t entirely blood relatives, which was a lot like mine. The Addams Family was key to this book! I grew up watching the original TV show on VHS, and my mom collected the old cartoons. What Big Teeth often gets compared to The Addams Family (though I would say it’s much darker!) Is the Addams Family a notion you had when you were first writing the book? ![]() The original (1964) Addams Family was inspiration for Szabo’s YA debut novel, What Big Teeth. ![]()
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