Will LytleIllustrator Will Lytle grew up in the Catskill Mountains, where, after years as a hitchhiking, train-hopping vagabond, he returned to build a small house with wood from his family's lumber mill. An accomplished illustrator, mural artist, and the creaor of the guerilla-style Thorneater Comics series, Lytle also illustrated Strand's Waking Up to the Dark and Strand and Finn's The Way of the Rose.