I'm lucky enough to represent five talented author & illustrators (Ellie, Cindy, Tangi, Justin, and Sunny) and counting! Keep scrolling to learn more about these illustrators, see their project wishlists, and peruse their portfolios. But first up, the Fall Illustrator Lookbook!
Fall 2024 Illustrator Lookbook
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Ellie Fortune
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Ellie is an ink and watercolor artist living in Gunnison Colorado with a passion for storytelling.
She painted chickens and fairies with her Grandma Wilda Fortune in her studio as a kid. She went on to study art at Western State College in Gunnison Colorado. There she focused on watercolor and oil, graduating with a BFA. If she's not in the studio, she's usually outside skiing, hiking or gardening. Her favorite subject matters include fantasy creatures, animals, cottage core and nature scenes. |
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Cindy Grace Lamug
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Cindy Grace Lamug is a Filipina-American author and illustrator. Much of her work is inspired by comforting family moments, nature, and her roots as a Filipino. As a self-taught illustrator, she aspires to capture the magic and warmth in nostalgic childhood moments and create fantastical, enchanting imageries inspired by indigenous cultures. She was born and spent her childhood in the Philippines, and now resides in Las Vegas, NV. When she’s not drawing, you can find Cindy reading fantasy stories, hiking, working out, watching anime, taking naps, or eating chocolates.
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Tangi James
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Tangi James is a Caribbean-Canadian freelance illustrator and visual development artist for animation based in Savannah, Georgia. After graduating with a BFA in Animation at Savannah College of Arts and Design in 2013, she has since worked as a character animator and storybook artist with clients like Disney, Universal Pictures, DC Studios, and Fisher Price.
She has gathered all her experience of storytelling and production from the past decade to debut Princess Peponi and a Spoonful of Moon, and is currently balancing projects with homeschooling her daughter. |
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Justin Lewis
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Justin Lewis is an artist and author based in Columbus, GA. His love of comics came from his childhood obsession with superheroes. In his youth, he spent countless hours designing heroes, villains, and monsters to inhabit the world of his imagination. He has a deep love of all things spooky, which led him to combine his two passions into stories about the weird and supernatural. Justin studied art at Columbus State University and has years of self-taught experience.
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Sunny Sponder
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Sunny Sponder is a writer-illustrator by day, gamer by night, and hypochondriac 24/7. A Cannes Young Lion-award winning creative director turned comics artist, he has received critical acclaim for his dance moves by his mom.
He found his artistic voice watching Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and the manic enthusiasm of tween actors in Go-Gurt commercials. Though he colors like an episode of Rugrats or Adventure Time, he writes stories that live in the darker corner of fantasy, exploring characters who suffer from chronic anxiety, psychological puppeteering, and a conflicted sense of belonging—but always with a cereal spoonful of whimsy to help readers escape their everyday to a place with just enough magic. When he’s not doodling at home in Downtown Brooklyn, New York, you can catch him in a train or plane pretending to write important thoughts in his red pocket Moleskine, usually en route to another comic con where he gives talks on identity design for independent artists and sells tchotchkes you can pin on your jean jacket. Website | IG |
