"Obsession with The Hobbit turns into career as fantasy illustrator"

“A true graphic novel can be very satisfying and it really is a form of story telling that is not a book and not a movie.”

“You can stump yourself if you try too hard or something, but everybody has a gift for something, and, people who do what I do, they can envision things so it’s not difficult. Once you get to a point as an artist — the type of artist I am — where you can envision it and then you can draw what you see in your mind, then you’re pretty much unleashed.”