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OUR ILLUSTRATORS

Ash J. Wu's thumbnail image of a girl in a pink dress and hat holding a lantern looking sad in a crowd of people.

Ash Wu

August Zhang's thumbnail of a woman and a man in an airport holding hands, with the man also holding a heart-shaped balloon

August Zhang

Beno Meli's thumbnail of a guy in suit, pulling something heavy that's off screen with a rope.

Beno Meli

Bex Glendining thumbnail image of a Black woman with snakes as hair (a modern-day medusa) sitting at the bar in a diner with her computer open in front of her. There is a jute box and a man in the background. The colors are variations of pink hues.

Bex Glendining

Carlianne Tipsey's thumbnail of a pink bunny walking on wooden bridge in the rain.

Carlianne Tipsey

Chad Thomas thumbnail image of four boys in a snowball fight.

Chad Thomas

Courtney Lovett's thumbnail of a boy in the rain in a yellow raincoat staring at glowing butterflies

Courtney Lovett

Crystal Smith's thumbnail of a girl standing outside, wearing sunglasses with a star on them, with the sun behind her.

Crystal Smith

Cyndi Wojciechowski's thumbnail of a girl exploring, wearing hat and with binoculars.

Cyndi Wojciechowski

DK Yingst's thumbnail of a young woman with pink hair

DK Yingst

Evie Zhu's thumbnail image of two panda bears one a larger mama bear and the other a baby snuggling in a green bamboo forest

Evie Zhu

Jackie Huang's thumbnail image of a black and white cat with a pink background

Jackie Huang

James Serafino's thumbnail of a scared boy hiding under blankets

James Serafino

Jesse White thumbnail image of girl in yellow jacket looking through binoculars

Jesse White

Jocelyn Li Langrand's thumbnail image of a girl with pink cheeks and long hair standing in a crowd, where everyone has the same hair cut. She has turned to look over her shoulder at the viewer; everyone else is turned away, and the only thing we see is the back of their heads. The entire illustration is black and white, except for her pink cheeks.

Jocelyn Li Langrand

Jon Corby's thumbnail image of three anthropomorphized baby cacti playing tick tack toe using sticks to write in the dirt, as a tiny anthropomorphized tumbleweed in a cowboy hat, watches from behind a rock. Two of baby cacti are wearing pink flowers on their heads. The cacti on the right watches the game with worry, for she is likely losing, while the other smile brightly.

Jon Corby

Kaly Quarles' thumbnail image of a young dark-haired girl, wearing a short plaid dress, carrying a basked of flowers in her right hand and a leafy tree branch in her left, as she traverses a patch of grass with a creamy sky in the background.

Kaly Quarles

Laan Cham's thumbnail of kids dressed for Halloween as a pink axolotl, raccoon, and ghost.

Laan Cham

Lauren Degraaf's thumbnail image of a kid in a yellow coat and red hat pulling a sled with a stuffed bear in a pine forest covered in snow.

Lauren Degraaf

Leah Giles's thumbnail of a boy getting on bus.

Leah Giles

Lucas Elliott's thumbnail of a kid dressed as dinosaur getting off a bus of monsters.

Lucas Elliott

Mars Lauderbaugh's thumbnail image of two people lying head to head, their bodies stretched out in opposite directions, on a bed of forget-me-not flowers, facing one another. The dark haired person's eyes are closed, and their hand brushes the other person's forearm, while their other hand clutches a sprig of flowers. The blond person is covering their eyes with their arm arm. Underneath them is a gold ring of light, and they seem to be suspended in space, evoking a romantic, sensual connection between the two.

Mars Lauderbaugh

Michelle Jing Chan's thumbnail of two kids in the tree.

Michelle Jing Chan

Monika Róża Wiśniewska's thumbnail of a teenager holding up the "loser" sign.

Monika Róża Wiśniewska

Nadia Fisher's thumbnail of a girl sunbathing on the grass, with her purple backpack sitting next to her.

Nadia Fisher

Norm Grock thumbnail image of brown haired boy playing the guitar on a beach

Norm Grock

Olivia Amoah's thumbnail image of a Black girl with curls and a pink and white polka dot shit looking at a seedling in a red pot.

Olivia Amoah

Olivia Aserr's thumbnail image of a young ancient Egyptian girl, standing on the sand with cattail plants waving behind her. She's wearing a short white dress and gold jewelry, and her thick dark hair is cropped in straight line at her jawbone.

Olivia Aserr

Pearl Low's thumbnail of a mom doing her daughter's hair.

Pearl Low

Peter Cheong's thumbnail image of a black wolf in an orange shirt looking out the window at roofs.

Peter Cheong

Sas Milledge's thumbnail image of a dark-haired girl, standing waist-deep in sea water. Her orange skirt is flowing in the water below the surface, as black eels swim past her skirt through the kelp. Above the surface, she's wearing a cropped yellow camisole. Behind her, sea plants jut into a yellow sky.

Sas Milledge

Shelly Swann's thumbnail of a mother and son sitting at the dinner table.

Shelly Swann

Sophia Green's thumbnail of little girl with bantu knots

Sophia Green

Stacy Ebert's thumbnail image of a longhorn steer with a quizzical expression and a tiny blue bow atop its head. Behind the steer is a simple pink background.

Stacy Ebert

Tatiana Gardel's thumbnail of a girl on a flying cheetah

Tatiana Gardel

Tessa's Pfeifer's thumbnail of a little kid's face pressed against window of a yellow car.

Tessa Pfeifer

Child holding cat, while resting on a crescent moon in the night, star-filled sky.

Tracy Bishop

Yusuke Watanabe's thumbnail of two kids in the rain

Yusuke Watanabe

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