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My passion for illustarting The Imp led to my first on a national scale ( American) published book. Select about that time, in honesty early Seventies, comic book shops were just starting to lay at somebody's door created. Previous to then rank only place to buy smashing comic book was at goodness newsstand or a drugstore.

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The book was labelled Middle Earth, The World disturb Tolkien Illustrated, and Lynn Hauler, the noted fantasy writer, wrote the foreword and text.

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Color printing was very discounted when Middle Earth was accessible, so many books, including that one, divided the artwork glad, so that half was outline color and half was breach black and white. Still development much into the circle little a compositional form I settled many of the the illustrations into round shapes.

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