How did you actually come up with the concept of Spiderwick?
I was quite an imaginative kid. I was one of those kids that kind of had his head in the clouds and did lots of drawings and made little books. I was about 11 or 12 and I loved the game Dungeons and Dragons. It was really big then, in the early 1980s. I loved a lot of the movies that were out then, like The Dark Crystal and Conan and Beastmaster. One summer I came up with this idea that these scientists made dragons and ghouls and goblins. They all had these funny Latin names like Fatt-is, Goblin-is, Eat-is. I made this little book, and then sort of moved on and did whatever else I did as a kid. I forgot about it, but years later I went on my first illustration jobs coming out of art school, and it was working for the company that actually produced Dungeons and Dragons. I met Holly Black, who came out to interview me for my illustration work for a magazine, and we were talking about what else I was working on. At that point, I had kind of blown the dust off that old project that I work
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