John kelly

I'm an Illustrator, writer and designer.

I've worked for Bloomsbury, Little Tiger, Scholastic, Macmillan, Hodder, Kingfisher, Simon & Schuster, Aardman animation, HotKey, Quercus, Lucasfilm, Radar pictures and many others. I have written and illustrated my own and others picture books, graphic novels, non-fiction of every subject area imaginable, storyboards, concept art and treatments for film.

I have several new picture books out at the moment, MUNCH, CRUNCH, PIRATE LUNCH (Bloomsbury) and CAN I JOIN YOUR CLUB? (Little Tiger).

I've been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway prize twice ('Guess Who's Coming for Dinner?' and 'Scoop!'). I've also been shortlisted for the Royal Society/Rhone Poulenc science book prize four times, ('The Robot Zoo', 'Everyday Machines', 'Pox, Plagues & Pestilence' & 'Don't Flush).

I've also extensive experience as a designer in both non-fiction and Licensed publishing with Dorling Kindersley (among others) where I helped create books for Lucasfilm and Pixar.

‘THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT BUT THEIR UNDERPANTS!’ is my first work of young fiction and the second book will arrive later this year.