by Emily Altman
Comic
Emily Altman is an illustrator from rural Missouri. She received her BFA in Illustration from the University of Central Missouri in 2012 and her MFA in Illustration with Distinction from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Working primarily figuratively, her work ranges from fine art explorations of texture and light, to detailed storybook illustrations, to autobiographical and fictional comics. She’s been shortlisted in the 2019 House of Illustration and Folio Society Book Illustration Competition, participated in the Royal Drawing School’s Residency at Dumfries House, and has been featured in a variety of publications. She is currently working on her first graphic novel.