Wanted to let this just hang out there for a minute, but genuinely-

Mitch and Tom and I talk everyday. Not always about the book but at this point I think if you counted it all up I end up talking to them almost as much as I do my family.

For the most part Mitch and I get the script, we’ll talk about it briefly and then we’ll go off and do our own things. We’ll share what we’re doing but usually once it’s finished. I’ve asked on occasion to see what he’s doing on the pages that we share to make sure that the shots we’re picking don’t clash, or sometimes I find an opportunity to make our layouts work in concert better (reading this back makes it sound like I’m saying the same thing twice but I swear there’s a difference). And that’s purely on the drawing side of it, I don’t think we’ve ever really talked about the process when it comes to colors.

Which is to say there’s a ton of collaboration but it’s not quite as direct as you might think. And also Tom gets what he gets and if he doesn’t like it well whatever, man, get over it.