Yuko Shimizu is an award-winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City. She was selected as one of '100 Japanese People The World Respects' by Newsweek Japan in 2009.
You've probably seen her work on The Gap T-shirts, Pepsi cans, VISA billboards, Microsoft and Target ads, as well as on the book covers of Penguin, Scholastic, DC Comics, and on the pages of NY Times, Time, Rolling Stone, New Yorker and in many other publications over last ten years.
Among comic fans, she is best known for her ongoing monthly covers for The Unwritten and her cover art for P. Craig Russell's comic book adaptations of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, published by Vertigo (DC Comics).
A Wild Swan a book she collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham came out in fall 2015, and her new monograph Living with Yuko Shimizu just came out last month. She has been a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts[2] since 2003.
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