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Kate Slater studied illustration at Kingston University from 2005 - 2008, where she swamped the studio with paper, baked a LOT of cakes, and constructed a 12-foot beanstalk from gardening magazines and duck tape. She spent the first 19 years of her life on a beautiful farm in Staffordshire, and is quite amazed to find herself living amid the vintage shoes and curry restaurants of Brick Lane …. read more
Chamo studied first textiles, then illustration at the Duperre School of Applied Arts in Paris. After this she took off for Berlin, where she studied visual communication at the Kunsthochschule-Berlin Weissensee. While living in Berlin, Chamo continued her illustration and tried her hand at her own peculiar brand of doll making. She took part in numerous exhibitions, both solo and collective.
Aaron Blecha was raised by a school of slimy yet gooey giant squids in Wisconsin. He acclimated to human society rather quickly by watching Saturday morning cartoons on a steady diet of Frankenberry, generic grape soda and CheezBalls (yes, mixed together).
Raul Allen was trained as a fine artist but following his love for storytelling he soon decided to just illustrate and design for books and magazines.
Sebastiaan Van Doninck was born from a mushroom somewhere in the woods of Belgium. At first he was really small (about one inch tall) but he started growing fast.
The vast majority of Mike’s work is done in his sketchbook, often at favorite coffee shops. He has organized his work to allow him to complete most of the creative process, from thumbnails to finished illustration, entirely in his sketchbook. He works alongside his illustrator wife, Renata Liwska. It is a very collaborative relationship and they often work together on their individual projects. Bouncing off ideas, lifting them higher and farther.
After graduating from the Applied Arts department at a Brussels art school, he spent another year studying Graphics in Poland, which gave him the opportunity to flesh out several ideas he’d had in mind for a while but which he had not been able to realise in Brussels.
Graham Roumieu ( born September 26, 1978) is the creator of the books 101 Ways To Kill Your Boss, In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot, Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir, the just released Bigfoot: I Not Dead and the upcoming Cat and Gnome.
Kristine knew she wanted to be an artist the moment she picked up her first crayon?sometime around 1973. In grade school, her artistic flair shined in projects such as her popsicle-stick puppet rendition of Cinderella replete with diorama shoebox stage, her meticulously illustrated herbarium for science class and an epic tempera re-creation of Vermeer’s “Art of Painting”.
Marc Rosenthal was born at the dawn of time in New York city. He was promptly moved to Turkey where he spent his first 2 years in Ankara. He did most of his growing up in Los Angeles where he stayed through high school (Hollywood High).
He attended Princeton University, majoring in architecture and left-wing politics. After graduating , he became a painter, eventually earning an MFA in a vain attempt to secure a teaching position. In 1978, he moved to New York and got a job with Milton Glaser, doing design and odd illustration jobs.