The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a story by F.Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in Collier's magazine in 1922.
I hadn't heard of it when Collins Design asked me if i'd like to illustrate this tale of a fellow who is born as an old man and ages in reverse.The story takes place between 1890 and the 1930s, and since historical detail is not exactly a hallmark of my work,
I was a little reluctant at first to take it on. (My idea of visual research is to scan the thumbnails on the first Google image page that comes up. (I'm a drawoutofmyhead type person, with an emphasis on outofmyhead.) The art director was great to work with, she encouraged me to interpret the story however I liked, and I had a lot of fun with it.