Benoit Tardif started illustrating professionally after he completed his studies in graphic design at Université du Québec à Montréal. Since then, he has offered simple, effective and colorful images. Often tinged with irony, Benoit’s style is marked by his interest in silkscreen and posters. He works with both traditional and digital techniques to build images that are designed to convey a specific and conceptual message.#Benoit’s works have won many awards, including the LUX Grand Prix Illustration 2012, LUX 2011 (Couverture de liver), the Applied Arts Illustration Award and the 3×3 Professional Show, and have been selected to appear in American Illustration 34, American Illustration 33 and American Illustration 32. Facebook: benoittardif91~Instagram: @benoittardifillustration

Anne Villeneuve loves to tell stories with her illustrations and her writing. Everywhere she goes, she studies people and animals alike and tries to capture the essence of the life surrounding her with her brushes and crayons. She never leaves home without her sketchbook, whose pages she’s constantly filling with colorful renditions of everything she sees.#Anne is the author and illustrator of many children’s books. Now, she’s tackling the world of graphic novels for adults. Her work can also be found in magazines and websites, on pastry boxes and even in certain metro stations!#She had the honor of being the designated illustrator for the TD Summer Reading Camp in 2018.#Over the years, her books have won many awards, including the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature – Illustration in 2000, the Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse in 2005 and 2009, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award in 2015 and the Quebec/Wallonia-Brussels award in 2000.#Anne lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Keith Gordon Campbell was born in a steamy, exotic place with wildebeest and other ungainly creatures. But he was promptly packed off to spend his tender years on a damp and salty island nation in the Far North, where wild winds rattle your windows and turn one’s umbrella inside out.#In the shadow of a looming black castle, Keith was educated in an old, turreted school with ghosts and secret passages and stuff. There he learned to love all things ghoulish, ghastly and rather gothic. He wasn’t one for chasing after balls or playing leapfrog; he preferred, even then, to find quiet corners where he could write peculiar stories and illustrate them with funny characters.#Later, he attended an even older university (though with less turrets) and graduated with a Masters in art history. That,it turned out, wasn’t a terribly useful trade (in fact, it’s not a trade at all), but somehow or other (he could never quite explain how) it turned him into an interior designer — in Hollywood of all the unexpected places!#But Keith never could stop thinking up stories and pictures to go with them. They kept piling up inside him, ’til he realized that if he didn’t get them out, he would almost certainly burst. He busied himself sending manuscripts to publishers and building a portfolio of artwork, until finally somebody noticed how hard he was working and decided to make him an author. He has written and illustrated Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters and The Mermaid and the Shoe.

Ben Clanton is a story scribbler, picture squiggler, book aficionado, child advocate, dragon tamer (he wishes!) and avid sock wearer (especially of the striped variety). He came to this planet in 1988 and has spent most of his time here reading, drawing, sleeping, gardening and eating chocolate.#Here are some other things you have always wanted to know about Benjamin David Clanton-Awesome:#His favorite sport is a toss up between quidditch, four square (he’s the reigning champ) and basketball.#He majored in anthropology/dragon taming and minored in politics at Willamette University.#Ben is 8% unicorn, 17% dragon, 26% English and 100% American.#Ben once rode on the back of an elephant.#Ben has never ridden a donkey (much to every donkey’s relief).#Ben once ate a dog biscuit. (It was disgusting.)#Ben loves to get stuff in the mail.#Ben is terrified of spiders — so don’t ever send him one.#He is a fan of wind-up robots, Legos and kids’ drawings.#Ben lives on a big hill in the rainy city of Seattle, Washington, with his wife and puppy. (His puppy thinks dog biscuits are quite yummy.)