I'm not pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Coronavirus edition. So I've been doing lots of interviews while I've been stuck at home, but I've not interviewed a lot of artists. I technically did interview with Maccavada.

But here's my first artist who is just an artist and doesn't do other stuff. It an artist. So, Mark Tadine is with us.

So welcome, Markine.

Good morning.

Good afternoon.

Where you are.

Okay, so I wanted to start from the very beginning, which is, how did you first learn about magic?

Well, I first learned about magic from, it was actually Anson Manox.

I was working, I had just moved to Seattle,

and we had been working on the role playing game for Wizards of the Coast, which was Talaslanta.

And it was one of the first things I was working on commercially. In fact, I had done a sketch or two

for, you know, the then art director while I was still going to school in St. Louis, or I should say after I was going to school.

And I had just moved to Seattle, started doing some work for that role-playing game,

and only a couple of months later, in either November or December, did the Magic Project come down the pipeline.

What year is this? What year are you talking about?

Oh, this was in 1992.

92, okay.

Yeah, November or December of 1992 was when we first got, you know, the pitch from Yasser,

Yomervor Force.

So what did you, tell me the pitch, what did Ypres tell you?

What were you doing?

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