"So Larry [Dragon Magazine's art director at the time] says something like, 'Only faces, no backgrounds . . . whatever you want.' To me, that was like saying, 'Pick the icing off the cake, child.' The face is such a fun and engrossing thing to draw. It's there that a character can be given the illusion of life. That 's my kind of magic."

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