Artist's Statements

Adam Kidder
Adam Kidder is freelance illustrator whose work has been published in Playboy magazine, Surfing magazine, New York Press, Royal Flush magazine, Broken Wrist Project book series and Revolver magazine. American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators have included Adam’s work in their Annuals.

Jeff Huang
Jeff Huang is a graphic artist and illustrator that specializes mainly in digital illustration and photo manipulation. He has extensive knowledge in 3D modeling & animation and motion graphics & compositing. His career as a professional freelancer has grown steadily. His work has been featured in many publications such as Adobe's Design Center, Digital Arts Magazine, Computer Arts Magazine, and Advanced Photoshop Magazine. He is currently represented by Debut Art, a company that represents illustrators and artists from around the world.

Leonardo  Rodriguez
Leonardo Rodriguez is a freelance Illustrator living and working in Barcelona, Spain. His work has been featured in MAD magazine, NY, Barcanova Publishers, Barcelona, RBA Publishers, Barcelona, and in El Universal Journal, Caracas, Venezuela. He has also worked as an art director for Dancing Diablo Studio, NY, where he worked on the production of Go Wild campaign for the Bronx Zoo. Collaborates as a cartoonist for several sections of MAD magazine such as “Fundallini” pages and “Inspirational Stories” amongst other assignments. He has received awards from Curuxa Gráfica at the Fene’s Humor Museum, Juan Rulfo Award at the La Maison de l’Amérique latine in Paris and the Pedro León Zapata National Award in Caracas, Venezuela.

Mu Pan
Mu Pan is an artist based in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Mu makes paper sculptures which he calls “Origamu.”  He credits his sparked interest in paper began when he volunteered at the cancer center of Bellevue hospital in New York City where he showed various techniques to create roses using only paper and scissors. Exploring the medium further he has created fantastic historical and mythological figures.

Nathan Fox
Nathan Fox is a freelance illustrator and comic book artist based in Kansas City. He has been published in TIME magazine, the New Yorker, Instant Winner (skateboard company). His work can be found on the covers and in the pages of comic books such as DC/Vertigo, Dark Horse and Heavy Metal. Nathan has received awards from the Society of Illustrators.

Paul Hoppe
Paul Hoppe is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Brooklyn, New York. He does editorial and advertisement work in the corporate environment. His work has been published in the New Yorker, Boston Phoenix, Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, IBM Seed and Adidas. He serves as art director for Rabid Rabbit magazine. He has been recognized for his talents and given the Joseph Morgan Henniger Award, Best of Show from the Society of Illustrators of LA, along with mention and medals from American Illustration, Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators, Freistil, and European Media Arts Festival awards.

Rauch Brothers
Rauch Bros. Animation is a studio that collaborates with visionaries in literature, music, performance, and other creative arts through character design, animation, and visual storytelling. Mike and Tim Rauch’s animation documentary German in the Woods received 2nd place at ASIFA - East Animation Festival in New York.

Yuko Shimizu
Yuko Shimizu is a freelance illustrator based in New York City recgonized by Newsweek Japan as one of "100 Japanese People The World Respects" in 2009. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including  Microsoft, Pepsi, VISA, MTV, The Gap, Warner Elektra Atlantic Music, TIME, New York Times, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and GQ. Yuko has received awards from the Society of Illustrators and Spectrum, and given the Magazine of the Year Award from the Society of Publication Designers, Gold and Silver Awards from the Society of Illustrators in LA, and Gold and Silver Awards from 3x3 Magazine Annual American Illustration.