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JAZMIN ANITAIllustrator www.jvzmina.com Photo Download | Bio Download Currently residing in Atlanta, Jazmin Anita (she/they) is a 27-year-old veteran, self-taught visual artist and illustrator. They strive to create, focusing on representing marginalized groups in ethereal, magnificent lights. While they’ve been drawing and creating their entire life, they began exploring digital art in 2017, which re-ignited…
AKEEM S. ROBERTSIllustrator www.akeemteam.com Photo Download | Bio Download Akeem S. Roberts is an illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. He currently works at Holler Studios as an associate director, and he freelances for The New Yorker as a cartoonist. His comic debut was in the Regular Show Special with BOOM Studios, and most recently he worked with Hasbro on…
CHARLY PALMERAuthor www.charlypalmer.com Photo Download | Bio Download Charly Palmer was born in 1960 in Fayette, Alabama and raised in Milwaukee before relocating to Chicago to study Art and Design at American Academy of Art and School of the Art Institute. As a graphic designer and illustrator, he ran a successful design studio with a…
KAREN LASCARISAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Artist and designer Karen Lascaris is the author of In Our Own Image: Treasured African American Traditions, Journeys, and Icons, published in 2001 by Running Press of Philadelphia. She began her career designing and illustrating clothing, footwear, and accessories on the Polo Ralph Lauren Women’s Design Team, eventually…
SHAWN MARTINBROUGHIllustrator www.shawnmartinbrough.com Photo Download | Bio Download Shawn Martinbrough is an Eisner Award-nominated artist whose comic book projects have include Batman: Detective Comics, DMZ, Luke Cage Noir, The Black Panther: Man Without Fear and Hellboy. He is the author of How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling, published by…
