Which comes first, the word or the picture?
Well the story always comes first at least with us. I know there are other people who have different ways about going about it, but we have to be thrilled with the story, both of us as illustrators, so that we will want to take the time to illustrate it, you know? And the story is what creates the whole world, you know, really even though the art is a marriage between, you know, the story and the — yeah, the pictures, you still couldn’t -
There are books that will tell a story just using pictures and I appreciate those.
But the story probably still came first.
But the story — exactly. It was in someone’s mind. It was a progression of events, you know, that happened otherwise it’s just a bunch of pretty pictures that are right next to each other.
The art follows.
The art follows, yes.
Simply stated, the art follows.
Yes, the art follows for us.