What prompted the idea to retell the Greek myths?
It’s something I should have thought of on my own, but it wasn’t until I met with Neal Porter, [my editor,] and he commented that an acquaintance of ours was like Cerberus [the three-headed dog of Hades] that the topic came up. I made some geeky retort; he then took a book off his shelf and said, “What if you did a book this size about Greek myths?” It was a “eureka” moment. I went home and drew, mapped the story out, and came back to him and said, “Here’s the plan: 12 books—one for each Olympian.” Why do you think these stories lend themselves so well to the graphic format? Comics can do so much more than just focus on superheroes, but I still think that when people hear the word “comics” they think superheroes, and the superheroes owe so much to the Greek myths. Was it challenging to decide how to begin? One doesn’t often see a representation of the creation of the gods through Gaea and Ouranos. I’ve always been a fan of the Greek myths. For fun, I’ll read the ancient versions in tra
