Yuko Shimizu

The exceptional illustrator Yuko Shimizu creates her work at the intersection of traditional Japanese graphic prints with surreal comic art. Yuko Shimizu's work deftly melds traditional Japanese graphics with surrealism and comic culture. The New York-based artist and illustrator initiates each project with classic illustration methods. She draws her basic forms and figures with Japanese calligraphy brushes and later digitally supplements them with additional colors and backgrounds. This technique gives her elegant and harmoniously composed images the look of graphic prints. Her science-fiction fantasies and personal creative visions, which are often erotically charged, combine the best of American pop and Japanese comic culture. Yuko Shimizu has won numerous international awards and has done commissioned work for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, SPIN, Playboy, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Microsoft, Pepsi, VISA, MTV, and the New York Times.

Ellie O'Ryan

Angel Cat Sugar is an angel-in-training and can't wait to earn her very own angel wand! Her friends Basil and Thyme decide they'll help her by pretending they need to be rescued. But what happens when Thyme takes a real tumble out of a tree?

A Wish for a Wand

32 of her most stunning artworks, each one removable for framing or giftingYuko Shimizu is a Japanese illustrator based in New York, where she teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Owing to her immense talent and the success of her work, in 2009 Newsweek Japan selected Yuko as one of the "100 Japanese People The Art, Design, Illustration, Fashion, Gift World Respects."Her rich sensual work has been seen on Gap t-shirts, Pepsi cans, VISA billboards, Microsoft and Target ads, as well as on the book covers for DC Comics, and on the pages of the New York Times, Time, Rolling Stone and The New Yorker.Visually engaging, imaginative and provocative, Shimizu creates a unique and alluring universe through her illustration, which is inhabited by tangled limbs, tangled hair and stripy-socked girls. Living with: Yuko Shimizu is an affordable, interactive way of enjoying these imaginative works.This book, with a subtle perforation along the spine, presents 32 of her most stunning artworks, each one removable for framing or gifting.Also available in the series: Living With: Hattie Stewart ISBN: 9781909399778 Living With: My Dead Pony ISBN: 9781909399747"

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