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This Q&A has been combined and condensed for clarity.
It was really cool, they took the time to work with me.
It was one of those things where they really wanted me and I really wanted them.
Hannah Templer and Rebecca Nalty are making an amazing book.
I just get to write cute funny wrestling girls and they do all the magic.
Totally a dream gig for me.
I like the tone of [GLOW].
Its got a comedic edge that is really refreshing.
It takes its issues very seriously but its really thought out and well done.
It doesnt dwell too much on these womens pain.
So much is their victories.
The showrunners are women.
Youre looking for the best creators for the book and women are really connected to these characters.
Its a story where women dont have to be good and perfect.
Someone said that aboutMad Max: Fury Road, which I love.
Thats the benefit of not tokenizing people.
Just personality-wise casting aside the really great cast diversity, body diversity the women are different people.
Its not a team of girls who are all the same but they look different for points.
Theyre genuinely different women.
Different backgrounds, different bodies, different lives, different ambitions.
And its fun to make other female wrestling fans.
I like wrestling for the same reason I like drag queens and superheroes.
Hannah, are you also into wrestling at all?Hannah Templer:I mean, now I am!
I was not at all untilGLOW.
Watching the show, I then watched the documentary and started to understand that whole world a little more.
And womens wrestling is a lot more appealing to me in general.
One of the cool things about writing wrestling is how visually distinct it is.
Because its a comic, I can take my time and every move can mean something.
I feel like that is tonally closer to the comic.
Its a little more hammy and it has more of that 80s Saturday-morning cartoon vibe.
Thats closer to making the comic actually a comic.
The miniseries has the characters going up against more legitimate professional wrestlers.
For me, that was about making them encounter serious wrestlers.
In the solicit we used the term real wrestlers and a couple people bristled at that.
They were like, Arent they real wrestlers?
And of course they are, but theyre not viewed that way by the people there.
Thats what the story is about.
Its not uncommon from other convention experiences [Laughs].
Was there anything you did to get into the characters distinct voices?
That is the kind of genius cartooning that blows my mind, and Hannah is that cartoonist.
I do a lot ofRick & Mortyand work for Marvel.
The voices are the first thing I hear, thats the easy part, making them sound like them.
The hard part is giving them good challenges.
Theres no real trick beyond practicing.
It takes an eye to figure out peoples features and face shapes and how to boil those down simply.
Were there any particularly challenging likenesses?Hannah Templer:Not specifically.
Its funny drawing essentially just one man.
I want to ensure Sam still looks like Sam and he isnt just Sam because hes the one dude.
Who is your favoriteGLOW character?Tini Howard: I love writing Melrose and Britannica.
Carmen is one of the big hearts of the series.
She gets to be like, Damn these wrestlers are cute, why are we fighting them?
Hannah Templer:I love Sheila!
And I love Yo-Yo, too.
Having queer representation, thats a character I really connect with.
Sheilas really fun to draw because she has such a distinct look and I do appreciate her character.
