Laura Hudson sits down with Bookhunter author Jason Shiga:
PWCW: Your newspaper strip Fleep, among other works, is a mixture of math and mystery. How much does mathematics influence your creative process?
JS: I get pegged as the math cartoonist, but to be honest, I don’t think there’s anything in Fleep that someone who’s passed all their math courses in high school couldn’t figure out. Certainly nothing past freshman calculus anyway. Maybe a little group theory and combinatorial analysis. But mostly my comics are just extremely rigorous and analytical. Also, there’s a little graph theory in my last two comics.
Shiga also says he’s working on a massive sci-fi epic that will “consume the next 10 years of my life.” Cool.
