Tuesday, May 4, 2021

JUSTIN CASTANEDA




Justin Castaneda is a comic artist and children’s book creator from Chicago’s south side. He is the creator of the When I Was Little picture book series and the hardcover children’s book, HEART.

He has worked on such comic titles as Aw Yeah Comics, Scratch 9, and Wonder Care Presents: The Kinder Guardians. He has also contributed art to The Thing Artbook, The Archie Yearbook, and the upcoming Visions From The Upside Down: Stranger Things Artbook.

Justin continues to work with the Chicago Public Library providing coloring sheets in celebration of Asian-American Pacific-Islander Heritage Month every May.

He is a frequent sketch card artist for Upper Deck Entertainment & The Topps Trading Card Company working on licensed properties such as Avenger’s Infinity War, Stranger Things, Star Wars Masterwork, & The Alien Anthology.

He won the 2015 S.P.A.C.E. Prize for Best Web Comic for Wonder Care: After School and was a 2017 Finalist in the Ghost City Comics Competition for the One Page Comic category.

His newest book, The Murder Balloon, is a horror-comic disguised as a children’s picture book about a clown who creates a killer balloon to exact his revenge on those who wronged him.

Website:

https://whenuwerelittle.art/about



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