![]() ![]() The rest of the story really evolved from the process of making the comic with Jillian. I thought, “There’s a book in that somewhere.” I’m fascinated by the mythologies of where babies come from, the stories we come up with as a way of addressing taboo subjects like sex and pregnancy. How, I’m not sure, but that’s what I heard. In terms of the plot, the spark for what happens in “This One Summer” was a story I heard about a Burger King in Niagara Falls that made girls pregnant. ![]() So that’s where the setting inspiration came from. My most potent childhood memories involve my summers at the cottage, and it feels like it happened in an instant, like one summer I was making sand castles, the next I was crimping my hair and watching my friends hit on the local boys at the corner store. In an interview with Hero Complex,Mariko Tamaki explained how her summer vacations during her childhood influenced the story. ![]()
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