Make His Mouth Bigger, Angrier is inspired by Tony Lewis’s love of Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Lewis uses individual panels from the comics to write poetry—bridging the gap between drawing and writing—by using graphite and corrective tape to obscure the original illustrations and narrative text. The poem Lewis finds in this panel is evocative of his artistic process of revision and amendment—one can imagine a mouth being erased and redrawn.