This Is Michael Spencer
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Words and pictures are at the heart of all that I do - whether on the screen or on the printed page.
​Before I could read, I'd make up my own narrative to match the pictures in a book or comic, so I ended up having a second story running parallel to the one the author originally wrote. 
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Of course, once I learned to read, I'd reverse the process and create my own one-of-a-kind (literally) illustrations for books. 
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Character is key to storytelling. The core of a character's personality can be presented with nothing more than the arch of an eyebrow or the curl of the mouth. 
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​Since these characters exist only as drawings, paintings or digital avatars, their environment is just as much a creation as they are - each calculated to accommodate the other 
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