Episode 51: Hugh Rookwood

Our host chats with a fellow veteran of the comic con artists alley circuit and a man who brimming with positivity and the creative spirit.

Hugh Rookwood is a freelance artist and owner of an illustration and design studio called “Chozen Studios”. For over 20 years he has incorporated his love of comics and comic art into his profession and developed an extensive portfolio. Hugh was an original founding member of Draxhall Jump Studios created by Artist/CEO Ken Lashley of Marvel Comics fame, which gave him the opportunity to do work for companies such as Hasbro,Mattel, Image Comics and Darkhorse

Our guest discusses his unlikely artistic influences in surrealist painters, finding a love of Marvel comics at an early age and using his early teachings in animation to create an award winning children's book about an unlikely Canadian folk hero.