I am an artist living in Athens, Georgia. Somewhere around 2005 (or was it 2006?) I took a three-year hiatus from collage-making to create my graphic novel, Rosewater. It nearly killed me. But now, years later, despite painful memories of slogging through an impossible project with minimal outside help and a budget of zero, I look back on this book with fondness. It is, without a doubt, one of my greatest artistic achievements.