Donna Barstow, a professional cartoonist, always thought it would be "neat" to have her own world. She's been creating that idiosyncratic world for more than a decade, with her cartoons appearing in The New Yorker, Sunday Parade, Los Angeles Times, and numerous other periodicals, as well as online at Slate.com. When we discussed her creative process, she told me, "It helps when I have a narrow focus. The narrower, the better. Otherwise the world is too big!" That's one way she enters flow...  Read More