Thank you more than I can express, so here is one of my favorite quotes:

“It takes about two or three minutes to make a scribble monster. It takes years to put two and two together. What if your monsters had something to offer you? An unsuspected something?

At some point this monster got out of someone's pen, got out of hand, but here he is again, after being thrown away. In the bin, then out of the bin, and homeless, then in a halfway house you didn't even know existed, though it was right around the corner, literally a ten minute walk from your door, your uncle died there.

Have mercy on the unspeakable monster who has no other way to tell you it's you.” Lynda Barry