![]() They thought of a drawing they had worked on together that pictured a man on a ladder under a full moon, trimming a tree in the shape of an owl. Hall asked the brothers for story ideas to pitch. She emailed him and asked if he was interested in representation. Kirsten Hall, who was setting up her own agency, Catbird Productions, found Terry online not long after he’d finished working on Rooftoppers. That was Terry’s first publishing assignment he did the interior illustrations for the book as well. Simon & Schuster executive art director Lizzy Bromley discovered Terry’s artwork online while searching for a cover artist for Katherine Rundell’s Rooftoppers (2014). Their years at the Ontario College of Art and Design overlapped, and they spent several years cowriting screenplays (yielding several tantalizing leads but no sales). When they were a little older, they painted an undersea paradise on the walls of the bedroom they shared at their home in Toronto. They were drawing before they could read or write, and they still have the first book they produced (it was about dinosaurs). ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re brothers-Terry’s a year and a half older-and they’ve been making things together for decades. Terry and Eric Fan are accustomed to collaborating. ![]()
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