Étienne Delessert (born in Switzerland, based in USA)

"Translating my own and the world's ideas, passions, fantasies, and nightmares into the visual language of books, magazine illustrations, posters, animated films, paintings, and sculptures." - Etienne Delessert

Source: Illustration Now! 3, 2009, First Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 110-111)

• Etienne Delessert Website
• Interview on Blaine: Seven Impossible Things before Breakfast
• Interview on We Too Were Children

Molly Crabapple (USA)

"My work is a hyper-detailed, Victorian-inspired meditation (=冥想、沉思) on sex, ambition, and artifice (=craftsmanship). With lots of curly lines." - Molly Crabapple.

Source: Illustration Now! 4, 2011, Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 76-79)

• Molly Crabapple Homepage
• Molly Crabapple on Tumblr
• on Wikipedia Profile
• Interview by Pin Curl
• Molly Crabapple on Vice

Mark Ryden (USA)

• Mark Ryden Homepage
• on Wikipedia Profile
• Incarnation by Mark Ryden, on Youtube

• Mark Ryden on TASCHEN
• on Between Mirrors
• on Ferrebeekeeper
• on The Fox is Black

Nicoletta Ceccoli (San Marino, Italy)

"My illustrations play with contradictions. They are whimsical, but also disturbing, dreamlike and thought-provoking. Like the dark side of a nursery rhyme, a dream of lovely things with a hint of darkness." - Nicoletta Ceccoli.

Source: Illustration Now! 4, 2011, Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 64-67)

• Nicoletta Ceccoli Homepage
• on Wikipedia Profile
• on Living Design
• on AFA Gallery Profile and Biography
• Interview of Nicoletta, by Arrested Motion
• on Daily Art Fixx
• on My Modern Met
• on Seven Impossible Things
• on Empty Kingdom
• on Indies Art
• on Youtube

Misaki Kawai (Japan)

• Misaki Kawai Main Website Link
• Misaki Kawai Shop

Nykolai Aleksander (Germany, based in UK)

• Nykolai Aleksander Main Website on Tumblr
• Biography
• Nykolai Aleksander on Vimeo