As he began to fine-tune his ideas, he also fine-tuned his expertise. “For instance, I liked drawing monsters, but they weren’t vicious things – they were more like Muppet monsters.” The idea to do a talking animal comic became a way for him to tell the stories he wanted, that worked best with his art style. There was a little more innocence,” Petersen explains. What I drew looked a lot like the art you would see in children’s books. “In high school, I wanted to do comics, but when I looked at what was popular, I just didn’t have the chops. While attending Flint Central High School, the idea that would become his profession was born and it was due to his unique style of art. The mice are pioneers in a way, and so were we.” Mouse Guard is about forging paths and finding safe ways for mice to travel from here to there. “I think my books have a lot to do with that experience. We had to find our own safe passages and build our own universe,” he states. When we were there, we felt like we were in the middle of nowhere. “There were woods behind the golf course where people rarely went. His pages are always full of lush and vibrant forest scenes. It really formed who I was.” From those early experiences grew a love of nature that dominates Petersen’s art and storytelling. I had grand adventures – some real and some of them only in my imagination. We spent our time building forts and forging paths there. “When Pierce Park Golf Course shut down for the winter, it became a big park for me and my friends. when we were older,” he said with a laugh. “We had boundaries we weren’t allowed to cross, like Court Street and Robert T. Petersen makes a living drawing adventures, and his own started in the small woods and trails in and around Flint’s East Village near Pierce Elementary School. “The first screenplay is based on Fall 1152 (the first Mouse Guard graphic novel). “We would like to see it happen.” he says. Mouse Guard is revered by thousands of fans, so much so that a movie is being shopped around in Hollywood. I was sure it was just going to be a weird, square-shaped book about mice that nobody would want to publish.” Talent is always recognized, however, and after 15 years of Mouse Guard, David Petersen is a household name in the graphic novel industry.
“I thought I would sell Issue 1 and use that money to print Issue 2, and just keep doing it that way. “I thought I would simply self-publish the series for a time,” he recalls. When David Petersen finished writing and illustrating the first issue of the Mouse Guard comic book series for the Motor City Comic Con in May of 2005, there was no way he could have known where it would lead.
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