At 32, Rebecca Roher is probably used to being the youngest person in the room by at least 60 years.

Roher's a Toronto artist, and in 2017 she won top honours at the Doug Wright Awards for her graphic novel Bird in a Cage, a tender memoir from her grandmother's final years. But for the last eight months she's been travelling Europe, interviewing senior citizens (aged 90 and up) for her latest comics project: One Hundred Year-Old Wisdom.

Anyone who's ever covered a 100-year-old's birthday — from the intern at your local cable access station to Ellen DeGeneres — is curious about the same biggie of a question: what's the secret to an unusually long life? Though if you've sat through any of those stories, the advice never seems to check out. Around the time she was developing Bird in a Cage, Roher was YouTube-ing loads of those videos."The secret to long life is often really funny, like 'I eat oatmeal every day!' or 'I stayed away from men!'"

It's an absurd question to ask, she says, but it's undeniably intriguing. To be mortal is to desperately want the secret. "What ARE the secrets to long life? I want to know what their answers are!"

"The history of what they've lived through — that's fascinating to me."

So since 2017, she's been seeking out the formula for herself, interviewing nonagenarians for a project that she ultimately plans to compile as a book. In the meantime, she regularly publishes short comics of the conversations. Painted in gouache and featuring Roher herself as an ever-observant reporter (for the make-believe TV station WCH TV), they've appeared in a variety of publications so far, including Taddle Creek and comics site The Nib. (Read them all via her website.)

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