Over at THE LONG AND SHORTBOX OF IT!, I talked to English comicsmith Rachael Smith about her new comic&amp;#8221;I AM FIRE,&amp;#8221; which you can preorder here:&nbsp;

JK: I forgot about take your son/daughter to work day! But I don&amp;#8217;t think that it&amp;#8217;s about work experience for the children so much as it is a chance for the parents to goof off for a day while showing off their kids to other people. It&amp;#8217;s also something that parents only really do until their children stop being cute, probably around 10 years old. Sort of along the same lines, it seems like &amp;#8220;I Am Fire&amp;#8221; is really, about youth and age, or maybe about growing up. Did you set out to write a comic like that? Do you have anything in particular that you were trying to say?
RS: I don&amp;#8217;t think I set out trying to say anything grand or put across a certain feeling&amp;#8230;I wanted to create Jenny as a character and built everything around her really. Other inspiration came from a story I heard from a friend about how he had quite an elaborate fire drill at his office. Apparently once the fire alarm started going off he was leading a whole bunch of people down the fire exit stairs and, unexpectedly, there was a member of the building management staff with a sign that said &amp;#8216;Fire.&amp;#8217; Realising that this was a test from the management on how they would deal with a real fire, my friend turned and explained to the person behind him. Unfortunately other people who couldn&amp;#8217;t see the situation overheard him say the word &amp;#8216;fire.&amp;#8217; Panic ensued. I don&amp;#8217;t think they passed the fire drill.
