No I didn't do the cover art. Read on to
learn about the people who did my covers. |
Eric Bloom
 Eric Bloom
did both the cover illustration and the design for the eBook edition of Saving the
Planet & Stuff.
Eric is a New York City-based illustrator in both digital and traditional media.
He is a former digital compositor at Marvel Entertainment and a graduate of Pratt
Institute.
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Joe Cepeda
  Joe Cepeda
did both the cover art and the illustrations for A Girl, a Boy, and a Monster Cat
and its sequel, A Girl, a Boy, and Three Robbers.
In addition to working as a commercial artist and contributing work for periodicals and
corporate clients, Joe has illustrated a large number of children's books, including Nappy
Hair by Carolivia Herron and the American edition of the I, Freddy
books (the Golden Hamster Saga) by Dietlof Reiche. And he has illustrated books
by Gary Soto and Julius Lester.
You can view more of his work at his website. |
Santiago Cohen
  Santiago Cohen did both the cover art and the
illustrations for My Life Among The Aliens and its sequel, Club Earth.
In addition to doing the illustrations and/or cover art for a number of books, Santiago
is an award winning animator. He did the animation for the Troubles the Cat series
on the Cartoon Network and was involved with Sniz and Fondue, which is seen on Kablam
(Nickelodeon). He's done illustrations for a long list of magazines in the United
States (Family Fun, Healthy Kids, Child, New Yorker, Entertainment
Weekly, The Village Voice, to name a few) as well as for publications and
organizations in Japan, Australia, and Mexico. Last, but not least, he designed the logo
for the Comedy Central Network!
Santiago Cohen is originally from Mexico but now lives in the United States with his
wife and children.
You can view more of his work at his website. |
Richard Hull
 Richard Hull did the
cover art for A Year With Butch And Spike.
Richard has done artwork for two children's books by Judith Viorst and a book of poems
by Laura Ingalls Wilder. He lives in the western U.S..
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Mark Elliott
 Mark Elliott, who
did the cover art for The Hero of Ticonderoga did covers for a number of
books by Gail Carson Levine--including, of course, Ella Enchanted.
He lives on a working sheep farm!
You can view more of his work at this
website.
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Robert Shadbolt
 Robert Shadbolt
started doing freelance artwork for Vogue magazine while still a student at the
Royal College of Art. Since then he’s
worked for many women’s magazines, mainly because he enjoys their silliness. After once getting lost in the Egyptian desert
while doing design work for a treasure-seekers website, he decided to stick to London and
Paris where he is what is known as an urban stroller.
Shadbolt lives near Greenwich, England and teaches art to the next
generation at Middlesex University.
You can view more of his work at his website.
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Andrew Farley
 The cover art for the paperback version of A Year With Butch
And Spike was done by Andrew Farley.
While still a student at Kingston University in England (where he studied graphic design
and graduated with honors--or honours, as they say on the other side of the Atlantic),
Andrew completed his first job as an illustrator, which involved creating portraits for
record sleeves. (I believe we would call those record albums. Your parents probably have
some tucked away somewhere.) In addition to doing book illustrations, Andrew does artwork
for movie posters and advertising campaigns.
Andrew lives in Kent, England. |
Marikka Tamura
 Marikka Tamura did the
book design for Happy Kid!.
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Chiara Carrer
 Chiara Carrer did the
cover art and illustrations for La mia vita tra gli alieni, the Italian
edition of My Life Among The Aliens. She is a well regarded Italian
illustrator having illustrated numerous children's books, many of which have received
awards and recognitions.
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Léo Beker
 Léo Beker, who did the cover art for Les
Visiteurs Debarquent!, the French edition of My Life Among The Aliens, was
born in Uruguay but moved with his parents to Buenos Aires, Argentina. He worked for
a time installing meteorological stations in Patagonia and became interested in deep sea
diving. During a period of political unrest in Argentina, he moved to Marseilles,
France with his wife and child to study oceanography.
They decided to stay in France, and Beker began creating a bande dessinée--a
comic strip. He has done ten albums of comics altogether, five in the series
"Louison Cresson." He is also the author of L'Instant Qui Precede.
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Silke Brix-Henker
 Silke Brix-Henker
did the cover art for Ein total verrucktes Schuljar, the German edition
of A Year With Butch And Spike. She lives in Germany and works as
a freelance illustrator for book publishers and television.
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Giorgio Sommacal
 Giorgio Sommacal did
the cover art for L'alieno che venne a cena, the Italian edition of Club
Earth. He lives in the Town of Bra, Italy and has done illustrations for
newspapers, comics, magazines as well as childrens books.
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