I drew this a few months ago.

I’d received an e-mail from Mike saying how much he loved the work I’d done on The Flash and I responded, as I’d done the few other times we exchanged emails in the past, with humble thanks and a sincere hope to finally meet him at one show or another. But for some reason my e-mails kept getting bounced back to me, and Mike didn’t attend many of the bigger conventions in recent years, so we never got a chance to meet face to face. I wish we had - I always felt that Mike was one of the few guys in the industry I could relate to. His sketches captured the exuberance of youth and the tranquility of nature in a way that I can only aspire to. I wish someone would have just paid him to draw kids and animals and forests all day, because that’s so obviously where his heart was.

Anyway, I did this Tellos fan sketch to send to him, but when I finished it I didn’t like it and I put it back in my bag and forgot about it until today. I wish I’d just sent it.

- karl