

What’s the origin of that?ĬP: Thank you for asking this one. My sister is a photographer and lives in a small, beachfront town that hosts regular art shows. Local painters and shutterbugs exhibit and sell their work. But many of the buyers only want a cheap way to obtain expensive mattes and frames. They’ll pay ten dollars for a painting with two hundred dollars worth of framing and mounting, then discard the painting and exhibit their own work, using the frame, at the next art show.

JW: I’m curious where the idea of the magical picture frame came from. JW: What excited you most about the main character finally teaming up with Tyler Durden?ĬP: I’ve never bought into the binary dynamic of protagonist versus antagonist. Most people, to my way of thinking, create their own obstacles and defeats. God knows I do. Rather than watch Tom and Jerry, or Heckle and Jeckle, or the Coyote and Roadrunner battle endlessly, I wanted to return Balthazar and Tyler to the friendship they had before they’d become foes.
