I’m always involved in the design of the book. I sometimes the design is very much my own. Sometimes designers have — I’ve worked with wonderful designers who have made strong suggestions which have been very good and I’ve followed them. But in any event I’m always involved in that design of the page itself which is fairly crucial.
In fact sometimes I’ve had many times where I’ve been unhappy with how things were looking until I started to actually draw or paint with the text on the page and being able to respond to that — the darkness and blackness of the text and the shape of it in my illustrations has always helped me. It’s always helped me a great deal.
