"As a CO-creator of TELLOS, the book represents to me an opportunity to help create something from the ground-up that is completely mine (and TODD'S, of course)-- and that springs wholly from my imagination.

"It's a chance to tell the kind of stories that I've always wanted to tell-- and the opportunity to own them outright!!

"As an ARTIST-- this is the ultimate dream! Being able to create the visual look of TELLOS from scratch is the kind of thing that I've always wanted to achieve in comics. Every project I've worked on before this has been owned and ultimately controlled by a large company..... and most of the design work on the characters involved was already done.

"Now, not only have I designed all the characters and lands, but the lettering font is based on my handwriting (thanks Richard Starkings and COMICRAFT!!), the logo is my design, and even our production company logo is my design. Who could ask for anything more??"