What’d you think of Miyazaki’s latest, Ponyo?
I really liked it. I loved Ponyo. I think he’s the greatest artist working in film. I was reading something where the director of Millennium Actress [Satoshi Kon] said that Ponyo isn’t even a movie, it’s a series of hallucinations. And I loved that. It is! You just go with it. What was it like working on the Body World, which was published in serial form on the internet? I loved how immediate it was. I could just draw something and press a button, and it would be done. I started Body World before Bottomless Belly Button came out, so no one was really interested in what I was doing. I liked that I didn’t have to sucker someone into printing it, and then losing a lot of money. Printed comics work like this: The person does the work. They talk to some publisher. The publisher likes it, but they don’t know if people are going to like it. And then they publish it, and they usually find out that people don’t like it. By the time it comes out, the cartoonist doesn’t like it either, because it
