Jim Di Bartolo
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| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Illustrator |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I'm a freelance illustrator who works in traditional and digital media on book covers, interiors, and comic books. My clients include Scholastic, Little, Brown and Company, Hodder & Stoughton, Arthur A. Levine Books, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Simon & Schuster, Scholastic Educational, Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics, and others. My upcoming collaborative novel with Kiersten White comes out on April 29th, 2014. I've also collaborated on the art for three novels and one graphic novel with my wife, the writer Laini Taylor, and our most recent collaboration (LIPS TOUCH: Three Times) was a finalist for the National Book Award. I live in Portland, Oregon with Laini and our daughter Clementine. |
| Interests | My awesome wife and daughter, drawing, painting, reading, writing, exercise, fresh fruit, politics, the environment, movies, comics, nerdy things. |
| Favorite movies | Serenity, Amelie, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Captain America, Shaun of the Dead, Pulp Fiction, 28 Days Later, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sunshine, RocknRolla, The Fountain, Die Hard, Fight Club, The Matrix, Constantine |
| Favorite music | Radiohead, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Kishi Bashi, Beastie Boys, Tricky |
| Favorite books | Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Dreamdark: Blackbringer, Dreamdark: Silksinger, Lips Touch: Three Times, The Carpet Makers, The Stupidest Angel, The Descent, The Stand, Leviathan Wakes, Altered Carbon, Shade's Children, The Time Traveler's Wife, Water for Elephants, Heart-Shaped Box |
Why does the color blue mean raspberry-flavored?
Because green was already taken.