Q: Can you please explain what you had to do with 'Evil Dead'?
TS: I was responsable for the creation of special makeup and special effects and props. I was an 'Uncredited/Unpaid' Art Director, and oh my favorite thing is at the very end of the movie, when the hands burst out at people... i'm wearing the gloves, because i thought it was important to through guts at the audience.

Q: When did you get started doing makeup effects, and why?
TS: During highschool, there was a magazine called Cinemagic back in the days when we had super 8 cameras. Anyway, this book was for young filmmakers and it introduced you to making facemolds, stop-motion animation, casting foam rubber, and things like that. It was this great guide, and i started experimenting with things. When i ran into the 'Evil Dead' guys, i had maybe 5 issues of them to help explain how to do the things they wanted. In highschool i was always interrested in art, a big Frank Rosetta fan and the great Harry Hausen. I just wanted to be like those guys.

Q: You have talked about designing for a haunted house, has that happened yet?
TS: It's in Chicago, it keeps getting pushed back, but he wants it for 2007. He wants two different themed houses, one for the family with a story, the other straight out terror.

Q: Out of all your drawings, do you have a favorite?
TS: If i did, then i would be doing something wrong.

Q: How do you come up with ideas?
TS: I rented the movie 'Perfect Storm', i freeze framed the ocean scenes to make a commissioned piece because i hadn't done an ocean in a long time, i twist fairytales around, alot of different things.

Q: Has there ever been a convention you've attended that you got excited to see a celebrity?
TS: It's always great to see Tom Savini, i mean he had a real career with trailblazing gore effects. I seen 'Dawn of the Dead' and i was ready to bolt after 20 minutes. Then when the zombie gets the top of his head shaved with the helicopter blade - something clicked and i said "i got it, it's supposed to be fun, not a brutal assault on your scenses." Geofrey Lewis is someone i've loved for years. He's one of the greatest character actors of our time. I'm a real fanboy when it comes to these things.

Q: What are your views on Hollywood now?
TS: As for advice on film making, i read something really good - Make movies were you are. Make Hollywood come to you. Everybody has locations near by that are unique to your area. The idea of going to L.A. is just crazy. It's a union town, you'll be paying through the nose for everything, and need to get every stores permission to put them on film, it's madness at the cost of everything. It's cheaper to do it in your own hometown where it's a novelty and they would probably bend over backwards to help you out. Check with schools for wanna be actors, effects guys, crew and people that just want to have fun. Exploite what's around you instead of being exploited. Develope your skills and if it's making money, then someone's gonna come along as say make some for me. You can come to Horror conventions, it's a great place to network. We may not have work for you, but we can tell you where to go and what to do, you don't need an agent that way.

Q: How did the comic with DeadDog comics happen?
TS: DeadDog approached me. They had a tentitive agreement to do an Evil Dead prequal. I was told i could take any character and do any story i wanted. The story i always wanted more of was how the book and dagger were found. I answered all those things beautifully and DeadDog had a meeting with the RenPics guys and according to the story i heard: [they liked the story so much they said they were doing it and you can't!]  So DeadDog asked me to rework the story to take it somewhere else. I had other ideas floating in my head, so that's what i did. That's why it's called 'Tom Sullivan's BOOKS of the Dead'.