Jen Collins is an illus­tra­tor liv­ing in Scot­land. On a per­sonal note, I feel like we would get along swim­mingly; upon view­ing her web­site, you are (some­times ran­domly) pre­sented with a photo of a baked good, and she often com­ments how she loves tea (me too!). Her draw­ings have a con­fi­dent line to them with a ...

Julianna Swaney is an artist who cre­ates won­der­ful draw­ings and fan­tas­ti­cal scenes of ani­mals and humans, focus­ing on their rela­tion­ship between and nature. Julianna’s work is some­what haunt­ing, as the char­ac­ters in her nar­ra­tives deal with things that can’t be explained, and inter­act with the unknown. Her work is bro­ken up into series, my favorite ...

I first became acquainted with the work of Julie Morstad through my obses­sion with the singer Neko Case. Julie pro­vided the art­work for Neko Cases’s album Fox Con­fes­sor Brings the Flood, and I was instantly attracted to her style and content. Julie’s style varies; some­times, she uses heavy cross-hatching and sub­tle ink washes. Other times, ...

Sarajo Frieden has long been a favorite illus­tra­tor of mine. I met her once, briefly, in the sum­mer of 2008 at ICON5 (illus­tra­tors con­ven­tion) and she was a very nice. I tried not to gush too much. There are so many things that I love about her work, but for now I am going to focus ...