Yuko Shimizu update

I was checking out brwnpaperbag and it turns out there’s been a bunch of new stuff going on for Yuko Shimizu. I wrote about Shimizu a while back but as a quick recap, she was born in Japan  and worked 11 years doing corporate PR in Tokyo until burning out (her only office job before switching to art), at which point she moved to NYC where she had lived briefly in her childhood. Once in NYC, Shimizu got an art degree, and is now an award-winning illustrator & teacher. Not bad, right?

Anyway, she’s still doing tons of work for clients like the NY Times, Atlantic Magazine & the Progressive, and she spoke at ICON7 (the Illustration Conference) in June. The reason I’m posting about her again isn’t so much “new” news but “news-to-me”.  I found out in that brwnpaperbag article I was talking about that Shimizu’s doing covers for Hugo Award-winning series the Unwritten (DC Comics / Vertigo). You can see a library of all the covers of the Unwritten from 2009 on the Vertigo site. Why only 2009? Because the DC website is really disorganized, that’s why. Here’s a few examples of Shimizu’s covers, I like them quite a bit.

You can see more of Shimizu’s work via her website or her blog.