I headed down to the Toronto comic arts festival today and sat through an amazing lecture/show by Charles Vess. For those who aren't familiar with him, he did the artwork for Stardust and has collaborated with Neil Gaiman on a bunch of stuff. Fantasy based mostly.
The best part of the presentation was seeing the work he does for the community he lives in, set design, props, public sculptures, mural designs etc. He also has an obsession with putting the Miyazaki figure, Totoro, in a lot of his illustrations, which he explained was partly because of his connection to nature.
It's like looking for Waldo..
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He was my earliest inspiration for illustration!
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