“Often when I want to work but have nothing specific in mind, I’ll start with a familiar object, begin to draw it, and see what emerges.  I just drew a banana that became a boat (maybe you saw?).  It strikes me as a good diversion to start making a children’s story.  I don’t know the first thing about children, so my story is going to be the one I wanted to see and hear as a child but never did.”

— From “The Golden Mean,” by Nick Bantock