Hot Air Popcorn is a collaboration I did with my brother, Aaron. When I started thinking about doing collaborations for Drawn & Eaten, I knew from the get-go that I wanted to make a comic with him. Not only is he a voracious reader and lover of comics, but he possesses some of the most beautiful handwriting I've ever seen. He is a man of routine in every regard, and ritualistically makes a huge bowl of popcorn every night. It is consistent in its perfection: hot, fluffy, buttery, salty. I knew he was the one to consult about popcorn making. Per my request, he hand wrote, on a sheet of copy paper, his step-by-step instructions. I scanned them into my computer, colored and arranged them, and paired them with the corresponding images, which I drew in ink and watercolor.