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

Guillaumit Castagne (France)

"My work combines geometric forms, rigid colour schemes, and funny cartoon characters." - Guillaumit Castagne

Source: Illustration Now! 3, 2009, First Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 94-95)

• Guillaumit Castagne Website

Esther Casas Roura (New York)

"I own my observations of the world through my characters, in their own environment, and I allow no limitations on subject matter." - Esther Casas Roura

Source: Illustration Now! 3, 2009, First Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 92-93)

• Creamen the stop-motion animated short film