Toren G. Atkinson is something of a Mythos “Renaissance Man”: artist, musician, promoter and editor, he is also one funny guy to talk to. He is the singer in the Mythos rock band, THE DARKEST OF THE HILLSIDE THICKETS. His artwork has a realism and edge to it which has made him one of the most sought after illustrators by game manufacturers.
Atkinson was born in 1970 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he kids, “I spent the first two and a half years of my life absorbing the cold. Then I moved to Calgary, where I was further subjected to the wrath of Ithaqua for another eight years.” Like many people from the Canadian Prairies, his family migrated west to British Columbia, specifically Chilliwack, BC “where I failed to fit in at high school and college and all that.” Eventually Toren ended up in the “Big City” of Vancouver, where he lives to this day.
Toren has been drawing monsters since he could hold a crayon. “I was big into dinosaurs when I was younger (big surprise) and eventually got into comics, so I was drawing monsters and super heroes,” he admits, “and still am.”
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