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Kim Soderberg is a children’s book Illustrator with a personal and professional passion for helping children grow in kindness through visual storytelling. After her son was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the importance of advocating for acceptance became a focal point in her work. Through portraying characters of all differences and abilities, she supports a culture where we all belong as we are in this world. Kim currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio with her graphic designer husband, Josh, and their three energetic children. She has a BFA in illustration from the Columbus College of Art Design and is an active member of SCBWI. When she is not illustrating, you can find her creating with Sculpey, exploring Lake Erie, or searching for a new succulent to add to her collection.

Dan McGeehan is a Chicago-based cartoonist/illustrator with an international clientele. His whimsical, fun, colorful illustrations have appeared in a wide range of magazines, advertisements, and children’s books for over thirty years. Commissions have come from a variety of publishing firms such as Highlights for Children Magazine, Weekly Reader, Disney Publications, Sports Illustrated, Child’s World, Cambridge University Press, Childcraft, Harcourt-Brace, McGraw-Hill Publishers, Klutz Books, and many more. In addition, Dan is the author of several short plays that have been performed internationally. His multi-award-winning one-act play “A Long Trip” is one of the most performed and most honored short scripts in the nation and appears in the annual anthology “The Best American Short Plays.”

Mentiradeloro (Esther Cuesta de la Mata, 1987) began her career as an illustrator in 2010, sometime after finishing her degree in Plastic Arts, Graphic Design and Illustration in Segovia (Spain). In her early years as an artist, her pictorial work was essentially autobiographical, being her main aim to capture her feelings, concerns and her peculiar way of understanding and conceiving the world. Currently, apart from being focused on the development of her own universe and creating countless commissioned portraits, she works as a freelance illustrator carrying out projects for clients from very different sectors and countries. She has a special predilection for traditional techniques, although she often combines them with digital ones. Her working tools range from brushes to tattoo needles, including a wide range of materials. She is passionate about experimenting, mixing and discovering new combinations. She received commissions from the award-winning video game publisher Bethesda Softworks LLC, the prestigious creator of series such as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. She has made illustrations for a for a well-known museum in North Carolina (USA), a renowned wildlife documentaries producer and she has worked for different publishers, advertising agencies and both Spanish and international companies (she had the creative position in one of these companies for 5 years). She has also illustrated several music album and magazine covers and accepted commissions from different public institutions. Although she has her own characteristic and easily recognizable voice and style, she is also a versatile artist capable of adapting to the demands of each assignment.

Sharon Harris and Joel Harris of Articulate Graphics have a passion for art and medicine, so finding the unique field of medical illustration has allowed them to approach their work with particular enthusiasm. They each received their Master's Degree in Biomedical Visualization from the University of Illinois of Chicago, one in only a handful of accredited schools for medical illustration in the United States. Both earned their undergraduate degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Sharon earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting, and Joel earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology. We have been providing high quality, informative 2D and 3D artwork since 1995. To produce our artwork, we primarily work digitally, using current versions of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Maxon Cinema4D, and Pixologic ZBrush. We pride ourselves on our promptness of delivery, our attention to detail, and a great reputation with our clients for being easy to work with and mindful of budgets. Another bonus to hiring them is that they bring two minds to your project; specifically, two equally qualified minds, which gives them several advantages. First, together they can work faster on a project than the average illustrator. Second, they proof each other's work, virtually eliminating costly and annoying errors. And third, they bring twice the creative energy focused on your projects.

Pierre Droal graduated from Les Art Décoratifs de Paris (animation & special effects), and began his career in the cinema industry. Soon realizing that the technical part of his job was taking over the artistic side, he decided to change course and  focus on developing his abilities as a visual artist and painter. Since then, he has worked as a freelance illustrator for international clients: Tor Books, Amazon, Modiphius, Night Shade Books, Gallimard, le Seuil, Dargaud, etc. His images have been featured in Spectrum Illustrators, Illustration West, Ballistic Exposé & Painter, Heavy Metal & ImagineFX, and they were also exhibited in New York & Los Angeles.