Let's Talk Illustrators explores the methods, media, and design elements illustrators use to create visually engaging stories for children. Is the dust jacket different than the casewrap? Are the endpapers decorative, and do they hint at some emotional progression in the story? How do the interior illustrations complement the text, yet project their own narrative? Most importantly, what conversations do these details spark for readers? I asked these questions and more of the people listed below:
Ximo Abadía
Ged Adamson
Basak Agaoglu
Jon Agee
Akem
Jacqueline Alcántara
Mariana Alcántara
Jed Alexander
Selina Alko
Cynthia Alonso
Mehrdokht Amini
Carlos Aponte
Chris Appelhans
Ana Aranda
Ingela P. Arrhenius
Cinta Arribas
Isabelle Arsenault
Marcela Avelar
Kristen Balouch
Amy June Bates
William Bee
Rahele Jomepour Bell
Jonathan Bentley
Galia Bernstein
Josée Bisaillon
Sophie Blackall
Henry Blackshaw
Anouck Boisrobert
Linda Bondestam
Christian Borstlap
Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Peter Brown
Thi Bui
Cozbi Cabrera
Kristy Caldwell
Ruth Chan
Angel Chang
Dream Chen
Cátia Chien
Jason Chin
Jean Claverie
Raúl Colón
Marianna Coppo
Jen Corace
Matthew Cordell
Ricardo Cortés
Samantha Cotterhill
Eve Coy
Anna Cunha
Mike Curato
Antje Damm
Reza Dalvand
Nicola Davies
Sassafras De Bruyn
Tania de Regil
Suzanne Del Rizzo
Cindy Derby
Derek Desierto
Jenni Desmond
Mariachiara di Giorgio
Sandra Dieckmann
Cori Doerrfeld
Hélène Druvert
Kailin Duan
Daniel Egnéus
Carson Ellis
Leo Espinosa
The Fan Brothers
Chiara Fedele
Lisk Feng
Raissa Figueroa
Jay Fleck
Julie Flett
Pam Fong
Yael Frankel
Deborah Freedman
Laura Freeman
Kalila J. Fuller
Ged Adamson
Basak Agaoglu
Jon Agee
Akem
Jacqueline Alcántara
Mariana Alcántara
Jed Alexander
Selina Alko
Cynthia Alonso
Mehrdokht Amini
Carlos Aponte
Chris Appelhans
Ana Aranda
Ingela P. Arrhenius
Cinta Arribas
Isabelle Arsenault
Marcela Avelar
Kristen Balouch
Amy June Bates
William Bee
Rahele Jomepour Bell
Jonathan Bentley
Galia Bernstein
Josée Bisaillon
Sophie Blackall
Henry Blackshaw
Anouck Boisrobert
Linda Bondestam
Christian Borstlap
Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Peter Brown
Thi Bui
Cozbi Cabrera
Kristy Caldwell
Ruth Chan
Angel Chang
Dream Chen
Cátia Chien
Jason Chin
Jean Claverie
Raúl Colón
Marianna Coppo
Jen Corace
Matthew Cordell
Ricardo Cortés
Samantha Cotterhill
Eve Coy
Anna Cunha
Mike Curato
Antje Damm
Reza Dalvand
Nicola Davies
Sassafras De Bruyn
Tania de Regil
Suzanne Del Rizzo
Cindy Derby
Derek Desierto
Jenni Desmond
Mariachiara di Giorgio
Sandra Dieckmann
Cori Doerrfeld
Hélène Druvert
Kailin Duan
Daniel Egnéus
Carson Ellis
Leo Espinosa
The Fan Brothers
Chiara Fedele
Lisk Feng
Raissa Figueroa
Jay Fleck
Julie Flett
Pam Fong
Yael Frankel
Deborah Freedman
Laura Freeman
Kalila J. Fuller
Julian Glander
Michaela Goade
Piet Gobler
EB Goodale
Amélie Graux
Emily Gravett
Rebecca Green
Raúl Nieto Guridi
Rebecca Hahn
Rosie Haine
Olaf Hajek
Paul Harfleet
Katie Harnett
Shawn Harris
Freya Hartas
Dylan Hewitt
Carter Higgins
Ryan T Higgins
Janet Hill
Zara González Hoang
Jeremy Holmes
Devon Holzwarth
Molly Idle
Yas Imamura
Stacy Innerst
Gökçe İrten
Isol
Gordon C James
LK James
Amanda Jane Jones
AN Kang
Guilherme Karsten
Nahid Kazemi
Rashin Kheiriyeh
Nicola Killen
Aram Kim
Julie Kim
Soyeon Kim
Jon Klassen
Joseph Kuefler
Julia Kuo
Thao Lam
Nina Laden
Jocelyn Li Langrand
Khoa Le
Suzy Lee
Qin Leng
Taltal Levi
Steve Light
David Litchfield
Mercè López
Miren Asiain Lora
Jessica Love
Corinna Luyken
Elly MacKay
Motomitsu Maehara
Masha Manapov
Deborah Marcero
Juana Martinez-Neal
John Martz
Zahra Marwan
Nikki McClure
Flora McDonnell
Erika Meza
Estelí Meza
Tim Miller
Cat Min
Poonam Mistry
Akiko Miyakoshi
Daniel Miyares
Carmen Mok
Oge Mora
Ethan Murrow
Keith Negley
Il Sung Na
Natalie Nelson
Svein Nyhus
I occasionally chat with authors as well!
Mac Barnett
Ingrid Chabbert
Gro Dahle
Katey Howes
Andriy Lesiv
Vita Murrow
Natalia O'Hara
Chitra Soundar
Joshua David Stein
Michaela Goade
Piet Gobler
EB Goodale
Amélie Graux
Emily Gravett
Rebecca Green
Raúl Nieto Guridi
Rebecca Hahn
Rosie Haine
Olaf Hajek
Paul Harfleet
Katie Harnett
Shawn Harris
Freya Hartas
Dylan Hewitt
Carter Higgins
Ryan T Higgins
Janet Hill
Zara González Hoang
Jeremy Holmes
Devon Holzwarth
Molly Idle
Yas Imamura
Stacy Innerst
Gökçe İrten
Isol
Gordon C James
LK James
Amanda Jane Jones
AN Kang
Guilherme Karsten
Nahid Kazemi
Rashin Kheiriyeh
Nicola Killen
Aram Kim
Julie Kim
Soyeon Kim
Jon Klassen
Joseph Kuefler
Julia Kuo
Thao Lam
Nina Laden
Jocelyn Li Langrand
Khoa Le
Suzy Lee
Qin Leng
Taltal Levi
Steve Light
David Litchfield
Mercè López
Miren Asiain Lora
Jessica Love
Corinna Luyken
Elly MacKay
Motomitsu Maehara
Masha Manapov
Deborah Marcero
Juana Martinez-Neal
John Martz
Zahra Marwan
Nikki McClure
Flora McDonnell
Erika Meza
Estelí Meza
Tim Miller
Cat Min
Poonam Mistry
Akiko Miyakoshi
Daniel Miyares
Carmen Mok
Oge Mora
Ethan Murrow
Keith Negley
Il Sung Na
Natalie Nelson
Svein Nyhus
I occasionally chat with authors as well!
Mac Barnett
Ingrid Chabbert
Gro Dahle
Katey Howes
Andriy Lesiv
Vita Murrow
Natalia O'Hara
Chitra Soundar
Joshua David Stein
Lauren O'Hara
Zachariah OHora
Kelsey Oseid
Rosa Osuna
Pete Oswald
Kathryn Otoshi
Kenard Pak
Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb
Paweł Pawlak
Zeke Peña
Daria Peoples
Clotilde Perrin
Elise Peterson
LeUyen Pham
Camilla Pintonato
Greg Pizzoli
Kelly Pousette
Faith Pray
Chris Raschka
Raúl the Third
Seng Soun Ratanavanh
Louis Rigaud
Christian Robinson
Erin K Robinson
Romana Romanyshyn
Ellen Rooney
Julia Rothman
Isabel Roxas
Cecilia Ruiz
Misa Saburi
Felicita Sala
Andrés Sandoval
Alessandro Sanna
Francesca Sanna
Julia Sarcone-Roach
Júlia Sardà
Stephen Savage
Johanna Schaible
Linda Schwalbe
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Ana Sender
Esmé Shapiro
Isabelle Simler
Jessie Sima
Peter Sís
Lane Smith & Molly Leach
Sydney Smith
Jess X Snow
Lauren Soloy
Naoko Stoop
Tracy Subisak
Nazli Tahvili
Shaun Tan
Leah Tinari
Van Thanh Rudd
Joe Todd-Stanton
Duncan Tonatiuh
Andrea Tsurumi
Hervé Tullet
Evan Turk
Paloma Valdivia
Gonçalo Viana
Nancy Vo
Elizabet Vukovic
Rachel Wada
Anna Walker
Rowboat Watkins
Brendan Wenzel
Sam Winston
Bethan Woollvin
Tania Yakunova
James Yang
Taeeun Yoo
Hyewon Yum
Gracey Zhang
Ping Zhu
Yuval Zommer
Zachariah OHora
Kelsey Oseid
Rosa Osuna
Pete Oswald
Kathryn Otoshi
Kenard Pak
Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb
Paweł Pawlak
Zeke Peña
Daria Peoples
Clotilde Perrin
Elise Peterson
LeUyen Pham
Camilla Pintonato
Greg Pizzoli
Kelly Pousette
Faith Pray
Chris Raschka
Raúl the Third
Seng Soun Ratanavanh
Louis Rigaud
Christian Robinson
Erin K Robinson
Romana Romanyshyn
Ellen Rooney
Julia Rothman
Isabel Roxas
Cecilia Ruiz
Misa Saburi
Felicita Sala
Andrés Sandoval
Alessandro Sanna
Francesca Sanna
Julia Sarcone-Roach
Júlia Sardà
Stephen Savage
Johanna Schaible
Linda Schwalbe
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Ana Sender
Esmé Shapiro
Isabelle Simler
Jessie Sima
Peter Sís
Lane Smith & Molly Leach
Sydney Smith
Jess X Snow
Lauren Soloy
Naoko Stoop
Tracy Subisak
Nazli Tahvili
Shaun Tan
Leah Tinari
Van Thanh Rudd
Joe Todd-Stanton
Duncan Tonatiuh
Andrea Tsurumi
Hervé Tullet
Evan Turk
Paloma Valdivia
Gonçalo Viana
Nancy Vo
Elizabet Vukovic
Rachel Wada
Anna Walker
Rowboat Watkins
Brendan Wenzel
Sam Winston
Bethan Woollvin
Tania Yakunova
James Yang
Taeeun Yoo
Hyewon Yum
Gracey Zhang
Ping Zhu
Yuval Zommer