Illustrators

Maike Plenzke is a freelance illustrator and comic book artist from Berlin who loves drawing diverse women and exploring nature in her work. 

Jessica Flores is a Deaf artist and advocate, comedian and YouTube sensation creating awareness and bridging the gap between the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and hearing.

Robyn Smith is a Jamaican cartoonist best known for her mini comic The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town and as the illustrator of the comic Wash Day by Jamila Rowser. She has an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies and has worked on comics for NECIR (New England Center for Investigative Reporting), the

Harry Woodgate (pronouns: they/them) is an award- winning author and illustrator who has worked with clients including National Book Tokens, Google, The Sunday Times Magazine, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Walker Books, Knights Of, Andersen Press, Bloomsbury, The Washington Post and Penguin Random House. Their debut author-illustrator title, Grandad’s Camper, won the Waterstones Children’s Book

Natelle is a Malaysian-born illustrator who grew up in New Zealand, and now lives in leafy Southeast England with her husband, an apathetic cat, and a loud- snoring dog. Natelle currently focuses on children’s illustration, in particular picture books, young fiction, and non- fiction. She loves to use bold colours and cinematic perspectives to draw

Luke grew up on the suburban border between North EastLondon and Essex: his skill at riding his BMX allowed him tobalance right on the border and not fall off once. His favouritethings are bike riding and drawing. Luke has been picture making for over twenty years. He movedthrough TV animation, to web games, to making

Jade is an Indo-Caribbean American illustrator from NYC with a love of storytelling. Though an emerging interdisciplinary tech professional by trade, she is a lifelong reader who often freelances within the book community. She frequently draws on cultural and political influences for her work, and enjoys using art as a means of fostering discussions around

After discovering Shaun Tan’s The Arrival in a school library as a teen, Charis fell in love with illustration. Since then she has drawn book covers, fantasy maps, board games, street protests, in the jungle, on a boat, by a glacier. Once a secondary school teacher, she still enjoys geeking out with teens and adults

Rochelle was born in Jamaica but grew up in Birmingham, the oldest of six kids, raised by her single mum. As a teenager her head was always in a book. She loved to write – and at school the art department was where she felt most at home. Rochelle studied graphic design – and has

Sojung Kim-McCarthy is an award-winning, versatile illustrator who dances freely between a dreamy, colourful kidlit style and a more realistic, painterly one.