Maike_illu @maikeillu.bsky.social Freelance kidlit illustrator, repped by the Bright Agency. 🚫NO AI
www.maikeplenzke.com
Emmi @illustratoremmi.bsky.social 🎨 Artist & illustrator 🐹 MA in Graphic Design 🦄 Drawing children’s books, watching movies, teaching art and waiting for summer 🌸
https://emmijormalainen.com
#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social A tag for creatives on the hunt for work!
4x/year on the second Tuesday of January, April, July, & October.
bio.site/PortfolioDay
Run by: @audreygonzalez.bsky.social 🕴️
ASH Literary @ashliterary.bsky.social Literary agency representing award-winning and bestselling children’s and YA creators.
- We do not accept queries here
- All info is on the website
www.ashliterary.com
Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social Illustrator, Trini, person with things to say occasionally. (she/her)
sayadaramdial.com
Represented by The Bright Agency
#kidlitart #illustration
A Nine Night For Noxxy is out on Aug 6th!!
Juanita Londoño | Kidlit Illustrator @juanitalondo8o.bsky.social 🩷Rep’d by Robyn Newton at @the_bright_agency
🌼Clients: HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Quarto, Familius, Target
🖍️Domestika course
Christine Almeda ✏️ @eychristine.bsky.social illustrator 🇵🇭 I DANCE (Holiday House ‘25), I TUCK IN MY TRUCK (Holiday House ‘26)
📚 rep’d by Full Circle Literary
available for freelance!
https://www.christinealmeda.com/links
Diana Mayo @dianamayoillo.bsky.social Illustrator, represented by Andrea Morrison at Writers House.
Currently working on a picture book with Farrar Straus & Giroux
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Eimhin McNamara @eimhinmcnamara.bsky.social Matchbox Mountaineer @ http://matchboxmountain.ie ⛰️
Comp @ Mkhuzi: The Spirit Racer 🏍
Wolfvision @ Wolfwalkers 🐺
Shop https://eimhinmcnamara.com/shop/ 🛍
http://eimhinmcnamara.com 💼
him/them
Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social I draw pictures, I bake bread, I go for walks.
Columbia county, NY
Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social Award winning Director of Marketing & Communications for video games.
IGDA, BAFTA, Canadian Game Awards Judge.
Speaker, Educator, Advocate, Snacker & Flâneur!
Reach out if you want to work together or need help.
✉️raj@ohmpage.ca
🍁Toronto, Canada
Bethany Wheeler @littlepandaface.bsky.social 
🍀mon🍀 @monwinvo.bsky.social hi, I’m mon! ✨ illustrator, painter, & miscreant 💥 (she/they) • 🇻🇳🏳️🌈🍳• available for freelance! ⭐️
monicanguyenvo.com
💌 monnvart@gmail.com
Jane Austen First Drafts @austen1stdrafts.bsky.social All Jane Austen, all the Jane Austime. She/Her
linktr.ee/austen1stdrafts
Spoon & Tamago @spoon-tamago.bsky.social Japanese art, design & culture 
Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social Freelancer in illustration and design for animation
www.catfinnie.co.uk
Luis Mendo @luismendo.com Drawer and writer at large, from a tiny studio in 🇯🇵
www.luismendo.com/links
Kat Tsai @chuwenjie.bsky.social Artist of color, light, & atmosphere /🇹🇼 🇺🇸/ Visdev on Spiderman: Beyond the Spiderverse 🕷 / bio.site/kat.tsai
Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The UK’s Biggest Comic Art Festival!
Across Yorkshire 9-15 November 2026, with HUGE Comic Convention 14 & 15 November, Harrogate! Tickets on sale ✨
thoughtbubblefestival.com
Holly T Burrows @hollytburrows.bsky.social www.hollytburrows.com
Cartoon Museum, Illustrators’ Fair, Illustration, Workshops, Cats & Chocolate.
Save the Planet 🌍 Stop HS2 #stophs2
Maldita @maditamalt.bsky.social Illustrator & comic artist
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social Award Winning Cartoonist - Side Quest
/ Heart of the City • SLICE President • Comics Editor • Educator • They/Them • Queer • Black • Rep- Anjali Singh
Gocomics.com/heartofthecity
Oheysteenz.com
WakandaPunk 🍉 @indiedynamo.bsky.social Jordan Eric Mitchell he/him BG painter, illustrator and photographer Clients include Warner bros, cartoon network, netflix, PBS, NBC, NYT, etc. Jordanmitchellart91@gmail.com. All opinions are my own No minors https://linktr.ee/Indiedynamo
- Lechar - @jhonatanlechar.bsky.social Illustrator/ visdev Artist
✝️❤️
Open to Work!
Contact: jhonatanlechar@outlook.com
https://jhonatanlechar.myportfolio.com/work
Clients: Valorant, League of Legends, Disney, Netflix, Pokemon.
Insta: @/jhonatan.lechar
Pris Bampoh @bampshi.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator available for work
https://prisbampoh.squarespace.com/
https://www.patreon.com/PrisBampoh
bampohp@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/Bampshi
Derrick Malik Johnson @derrickmalikjohnson.com 2D Animator, Board Artist & LO / 原画 / ニゲン | Business ✉️: derrickmalikjohnson20@gmail.com for work or DM. Resume and work sample upon request.
(NSFW and SFW Content)
Minors DNI
🅑🅞🅧🅔🅡🅑🅤🅝🥊🐰 @boxerbun.fun emely | she/her | 🇩🇴en/esp | 🫀illustrator 🥩 portfolio•shop•patreon + more↴
boxerbun.carrd.co
Ian Jones-Quartey @ianjq.com Ian Jones-Quartey. Cartoonist. Currently working on unannounced projects. OK KO! Let's Be Heroes, Steven Universe, Adventure Time. My own opinions. 🇬🇭🇺🇸 Rep: huddle@fourthwallmanagement.com
SWAYHEM @swayart.bsky.social ✨Artist✨ Clients Marvel Studios , Marvel , DC, Vault, Image, and Entertainment Weekly | Email: Swabyjosh121@gmail.com |
Abelle hayford @abellehayford.bsky.social LA based illustrator & animation designer ⭐️Organizer of #drawingwhileblack
⭐️Owner of @kojojojostudio 🐈⬛
looking for full time and representation
https://linktr.ee/Abellehayford
Richie Pope @ SPX W63A @richiepope.bsky.social cartoonist + illustrator + storyboard artist + character designer
richiepope.com
richiepope.com/store
contact: richie@richiepope.com
Charlot Kristensen @zolwia.bsky.social She/Her | Grey ace | 🇩🇰🇿🇼 living in 🇮🇪 | Award Winning Illustrator | SALON SATURDAY (OUT SEP 2025) | Rep’d by Thao Le |
Looking for work - contact me at charlotk@hotmail.com
NO AI, NFT
linktr.ee/zolwia
Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social [he/him] ignatz award-winning graphic novelist
thinks a lot about werewolves
for all inquiries: oliveoilcorp@gmail.com
repped by @jenazantian.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/oliveoilcorp
OF △ @tncts.bsky.social olivia f + she/her + illustrator + robot enthusiast
linktr.ee/tncts | ofillustrations@gmail.com ✨
✸ Upcoming Events ✸
✦ Art Locker: Angels & Demons | Table 1 | Sept 19th
✦ Magical Girl Festival | Table C13 | Sept 26th
Pearl Low | 劉寶珠🧋 (they/them) @pearllow.bsky.social They/them/佢🌈 | Director, Creator, Story Artist | Founder: Orange Blossom Studios | Creator of Wheels & Roses | Clients: Sanrio, A24, Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, Netflix | 🇨🇳🇯🇲 Pearllow.com | Fourth Wall Management
Chris Kindred @chriskindred.com Narrative Designer, Educator, Illustrator, DJ, Something or Other
chris@chriskindred.com
~Tanisha Cherislin~ @tani269.bsky.social Character Designer- Looking for work!| Prev: Wild Canary Animation, Awesome Inc | Represented by Nicole Tugeau at T2 Agency
✉️ - tanichan2691@gmail.com
🧳 - https://www.tanishacherislin.com/
Bex Glendining 🍃 @lgions.bsky.social she/they | award winning uk illustrator and comic artist/colourist
https://www.lgions.com/
Debut graphic novel 'On Starlit Shores' out now ✨
contact - becky.glendining@gmail.com | Rep'd by Paige Terlip.
🚫 AI or NFT
Diansakhu Banton-Perry✨️✨️ ➡️SPX - G11B✨✨ @diansakhuart.bsky.social Character Designer, Illustrator and Comic Artist!
🌐 https://www.diansakhuart.com
🛒 https://www.diansakhuart.shop/
✨Shan✨ @shanfiction.bsky.social Illustrator ✦ Cartoonist ✦ IGNATZ Winner ✦ Coretta Scott King and Sibert Award Honoree ✦ Rep by Hannah Mann at Writers House
An anxious mom who works two jobs, who loves her cats and never stops 🐈⬛🐈⬛
She/They 🩷💛💙
https://linktr.ee/ShanFiction
Ashanti Fortson @ashantifortson.com Cartoonist, illustrator, embroiderer, color designer. They/them.
🇲🇽 ENG/ESP OK
NO AI. Get outta here
https://ashantifortson.com/
Manny Edeko @mannyoe.bsky.social I draw 
Erika/Bun (eriartdotnet) @bunabi.bsky.social 🍊 31 y/o artist | she/her | available for work
✧ portfolio: eriart.net
✧ inquiries: work@eriart.net
✧ commissions: eriart.net/#commissions
✧ brushes: patreon.com/bunabi
✧ prints: inprnt.com/gallery/bunabi
Nicole Ham @nicole-ham.bsky.social art and animation blah blah blah | nicole-ham.com
Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social Writer • Editor • Comic publisher blackjoseipress.com • Wash Day Diaries co-creator • LA Times Book Prize & Ignatz winner • Eisner nom’ed • Horror stan • Nana is my personality • Always in pain • Always tired • ✊🏾🇵🇷🇩🇴🏳️🌈 🥄•
Trevor Fraley @illustrevor.bsky.social (He/Him) Creator of Things. Illustrator of Disney Villains: Scar series. Represented by ASH Literary Agency 
teju abiola @teju.bsky.social painter, illustrator, printmaker • senior artist @ hallmark • winsor & newton demo artist • ub studio art mfa candidate • she/her
tejuabiolaart.carrd.co
✦ RAD ✦ @radimudio.bsky.social Ignatz-nominated chicken scratcher and letter placer ✦ (He/They) ✦ BOOM Studios, IDW ✦ GENERATION BABY #1 & DIE HIBI DIE Vol. 0
✦ radcomics.bigcartel.com
✦ radimudio.com
✦ linktr.ee/radimudio
✦ radcomics.pub@gmail.com
Ronald Wimberly @ronaldwim.bsky.social Raconteur, rack on tour, rake on tour, ray contour.
☀️Steffi☀️ @juststeffiart.bsky.social Black | She/Her | here for the vibes ✨☀️
Illustrator for Children's/YA/MG Publishing and Editorial
steffiwalthallart.com
AJ Howard @ayejay.bsky.social Character designer and Illustrator
Previous work: Cartoon Network and Titmouse
Website: https://www.ajhoward.art
for business inquiries: art.ajhoward@gmail.com
Odera Igbokwe @odera.bsky.social 🧚🏿♂️ Painter / Illustrator / Movement Artist
🌻 Summer sketchbook sale 🎨
www.odera.net/shop/sketchbook
🌞 patreon.com/Odera
Some posts are NSFW / queer & embodied / get me bodied/
‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social 📚Award-winning, Sunday Times Bestselling Author | Writer ✍🏾 l Reader 📖 | TV & Film Lover 📺 | Podcaster 🎙️| Latest book Give Him To Me out now 📚⚡️
🌸Inique🌸 💧Team Tragedy💧 @inkplash.bsky.social Hello I’m Ink! ✨28💕she/they 🎨 plush designer, illustrator, painter, and whatever other hobby I’m currently into!🌈
https://linktr.ee/Inkplash
Lily Allen 💓 @novva.bsky.social I be drawin 🇻🇮🇹🇹 (opinions are mine) | vis dev, characters, and comics | prev: Pixar, DC, DreamWorks, Netflix, Mattel, etc. | Rep’d by @jenazantian.bsky.social | 🔗: https://novva.carrd.co | 🌐: http://novvaart.com | 💌: novva.art@gmail.com
DeAndra Hodge | Illustrator and Designer @deandrahodge.bsky.social NAACP Image Award Winning Illustrator
Rep. By Christy T. Ewers @the_cat_agency
📍Washington D.C.
💌 hodgedeandra@gmail.com
www.deandrahodge.com
★ Kodo ★ @kodo.bsky.social ✶ He/they/them ✶ Comic Artist and Writer ✶ Inquires: TheKodoArt@gmail.com
ThatKodo.carrd.co
Lamar Giles @lamargiles.bsky.social I write Black kids & DC Comics (Static: UAN) & Star Wars (Sanctuary: A Bad Batch Novel). Big Dad Energy. #GirlDad
https://www.lamargiles.com/links
Awuradwoa Afful @rajieeee.bsky.social designer, artist & ceramist 🇨🇦🇬🇭
(she/her)
✦ pronounced ⇢ uh • ra • ju • uh
✦ ig: https://www.instagram.com/rajieeee
⚐ toronto
☺︎ https://www.awuradwoa-afful.com/ | prints & comics ▷ theartofmonday.etsy.com
✨TallNQuirky✨ @tallnquirky.bsky.social Alecia | She/Her| Concept artist| Illustrator
Past Clients: Finji, Netrunner, Possibility Space, Paramount ✨
Links: tallnquirky.carrd.co/
Shop: tallnquirky.bigcartel.com
aleciadoyley@gmail.com
Yetuu🐻🐼🌟 @redbearuniverse.bsky.social Yetunde || Illustrator || cartoonist ||
She/her
https://linktr.ee/redbearuniverse
Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social ✨ Picture book illustrator (she/her)
🖌️ Rep’d by Alex Gehringer at Bright Agency
📍 Philly made, Jersey raised
🌎 alleannaharris.com
Matt D. Rice - ⚡️Looking for Work⚡️ @mattdrice.bsky.social He/Him 🏳️🌈 • Character Design • Storyboards • PA @Skybound • Member @ The House Of Chase Conley • Opinions my own • https://linktr.ee/mattdrice
Catherine Johnson @catwrote.bsky.social Boiler suit addict, writer, seasider
Johnathan Edwards @jedwardsart.bsky.social Character Designer & Illustrator
Ky @devisedbyky.bsky.social Hero for hire.
Chrystal D. Giles @chrystaldgiles.bsky.social Author of books for young readers.
📚 Take Back the Block
📚 Not an Easy Win
📚 Listen to the Girls (May 2026)
📚 We Are Joy (June 2026)
chrystaldgiles.com/links
endofdaysonmars @endofdaysonmars.bsky.social Professional comic artist and storyboard artist on Iyanu and the Age of Wonders(2025). Gonna paint some digimon in between work.
akemiart @akemiart.bsky.social Owner at www.mythictexture.com // @mythictexture
Portfolio: www.akemiart.ca // info@akemiart.ca
Artist, Writer, Designer. Illustrates children's books, designs & paints for animation, publishes short stories.
Reggie Brown Art @reggiebrownart.bsky.social Artist, illustrator, and writer. 
Alanna @alannaflowers.bsky.social 📘 Love Letters is out now 🎉
🖌 Lettering • Art Licensing • Workshops
💌 hello@agfdesignstudio.com
www.agfdesignstudio.com/links
Blake🦇 @blakeobk.bsky.social ✦Illustrator/Creative Director✦
blakeshowers.art
✧D£S∀R£∀✧ @desareadoodles.bsky.social Black Queer Illustrator | 🥐Cozy Gamer | Apple Connoisseur 🍎 | doing this for Baby Cheeto | Desareadoodles.com
michelle wemegah @michellewemegah.bsky.social rep’d by Kelly Sonnack from @ABLA
https://michellewemegah.carrd.co/
Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
Uzo, The Artist @uzotheartist.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist,
Illustrator & Filmmaker
Founder of ZOMA Studios
🌱 uzotheartist@gmail.com
uzongwu.com
Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini @astrominx.bsky.social Fueled by stories. Bionic Playwright 📝|Filmmaker 📽 |Author 📚|Creative Researcher 🔎|Olivier Award winner #Sleepova ♿ 🌈
Website: https://matildaibini.com
Other works: https://linktr.ee/Astrominx
Vashti Harrison @vashtiharrison.bsky.social Author-Illustrator based in Brooklyn
Maria Motunrayo Ayinke Adebisi @mariamotunrayo.bsky.social 📚Author of the Kòkú Akànbí series based on Nigerian mythology, rep’d by H.G Literary
🎓PhD student in African Art at the University of Birmingham
💃🏾part-time Nollywood Vixen
Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Alyissa J @alyissaj.bsky.social Artist and Maker | After Another Studio & Amphora Vintage Owner and Operator | Nature Enthusiast | Vintage Lover | Trend Researcher
Camilla Sucre @succreart.bsky.social Illustrator, vampire enthusiast and resident fashionista 💕
She/Her
Represented by Helen Boyle at Pickled Ink
Davina Tijani @davinatijani.bsky.social Passionate about storytelling | The Nkara Chronicles Series out now with Little Tiger 🐉🧚🏿♀️ 🐘 🐍 Rep'd by Davinia-Andrew Lynch l Author l Freelance Game Writer l https://linktr.ee/davinatijani
Paula Akpan @paulaakpan.bsky.social historian, londoner & staunch gooner. researching the world-building and lives of Black lesbians & queers in britain, 1970s-90s. big dyke, big nerd. she/her
📕 WHEN WE RULED out now
paulaakpan.com
Diane Ewen @creativedy.bsky.social Hi I’m a children’s book author and illustrator. My agent is Nicky Lander
@thebrightagency.com
Janelle McCurdy @janellemccurdy.bsky.social Gaming content creator and author of MIA AND THE LIGHTCASTERS (UK) | THE LIGHTCASTERS (US)! Rep'd by Rachel Mann CAA. Game reviews + book info on my website: https://linktr.ee/JanelleMccurdy 💫🎮
📧Janellemccurdyinfo@gmail.com
t(osin)🌱✨ @artbytosin.bsky.social 🌿 26 / illustrator, graphic novelist and fanartist / tillamookbay on twt
✏️ original work, fanart (dispatch), whatever hyperfixation I have. I’m having fun here!
✨ clients include: critical role, harpercollins, bonnier books
🚫 no ai, no reposts
ObohDraws🎨🖌 @obohdraws.bsky.social Digital Artist, Illustrator
Instagram: @obohdraws
Email: obohdraws@gmail.com
Creative Boom @creativeboom.com The independent home of art & design 👀
www.creativeboom.com
Kellie Beggs @authorkelliebeggs.bsky.social Teacher⭐️Librarian⭐️Author
No longer active here
Updates only
Stacey B @staceybyer.bsky.social Kidlit writer & illustrator. Made in the Caribbean 🇬🇩 🇧🇧.
Creator: #sweetshoutout series
Rep'd: McIntosh & Otis
WILL & KRILL (Beaming Books 2025) https://staceybyer.com/books
Julia Shea @jsheaart.bsky.social 🌞 designer @ little simon & simon spotlight
🌙 illustrator, list-maker, friend to all dogs
https://linktr.ee/jshea_art
Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social they/them 🍒illustrator ✨book designer andywangart.com IG: @andywang.art
Whitney L-P 🩷💜💙 @whinknee.bsky.social She/Her
Children’s book Art Director and designer.
Website: whitlpdesign.com
Mom to a NB 8 year old and two black cats. Passionate about books, workers rights, equity, safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals, anti-racism, and picture book art.
Jim Hoover @jimhoover017.bsky.social I am a children’s book art director, and that’s it. That is my entire vibe.
Oh, and pop culture stuff.
Right right right—I’m also drawn to politics like a mosquito to a bug zapper.
Becca Syracuse @bookdesignbee.bsky.social Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator
Rebeccasyracuse.com
She/her
Rep'd by Natascha Morris/ The Tobias Agency