Section Logo Facebook   Twitter   LinkedIn   Email    Like many
kids raised in the 1970s, illustrator Mark Todd was influenced
at an early age by Star Wars and comic books. Unlike many kids,
however, he grew up just a few miles from the Las Vegas strip,
it's neon and glitz looming over the city. He graduated with
honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California
and currently lives and works in the Los Angeles area with his
wife, artist Esther Pearl Watson, their daughter Lili and Mr.
Pickles, a lovely French Bulldog.   Memories from Childhood  If
you have a degree in what field is it? BFA with honors from Art
Center College of Design.  Have you always been able to draw or
was it a skill you learned in college? I’ve been drawing since I
was a kid. I remember asking my dad how to draw an airplane when
I was around six; my dad was far from being an artist but he
would tell me these stories of growing up in England during the
war and how he would draw fighter planes and tanks attacking
each other.