Timo Grubing, born in Bochum in 1981, returned to the town of his birth after studying design in Münster. He now lives and works there as a freelance illustrator for children’s and YA books, school books and family games. His enthusiasm for scaly animals is such that he would love to have a dragon as a pet and if he hadn’t fulfilled his dream of becoming an illustrator he would have happily worked as a zoo-keeper at Jurassic Park.