![]() ![]() And I showed about five pages to Allyn and she agreed-she said that it wasn’t as funny as she thought it would be. I showed the first draft to my editor, Allyn Johnston, and she loved it enough to say, “Let’s write up a contract.” But then when I actually started to draw, I began to worry that maybe the book wouldn’t work.Īs I did a series of dummies, I realized that the book was getting further and further away from being funny. ![]() The story had a bigger cast than the final version, which only has the baby and parents in it. Initially I had the baby’s relatives and family friends as part-time employees, and I had the baby fire the dog. One night, right around Christmas 2008, I started to write what became the first draft of this book and I began cracking myself up. When did it strike you that there was indeed a book in the doodle? That doodle hung on my studio wall for years, and occasionally I’d look at it and wonder if there was something there. But I’ve heard plenty of people complain about bosses, and during one of those conversations, I began doodling pictures of a baby with a diaper on saying, “Waaah,” and the idea of a baby as the boss came to me. ![]() First of all, I haven’t had a lot of experience with bosses, since I’ve never had a real job, with the exception of a six-week stint right out of art school working in the story department of Disney Studios. Did your own role as the mother of three inspire this tale of a take-charge baby?Īctually the idea came from several places. ![]()
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