No I didn't do the cover art. Read on to
learn about the people who did my covers.
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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 Elliot
 Mark Elliot,
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 the Shannon
Associates 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 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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