John Shelley (illustrator)

John Shelley
British Illustrator John Shelley
Born Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Nationality British (Anglo-Welsh)
Known for Illustration, Children's literature
Website http://www.jshelley.com

John Shelley (ジョン・シェリー）is an award winning British-born illustrator, particularly noted for his work in Japan.

Career

Shelley grew up in Sutton Coldfield before studying illustration at Bournville School of Art and Manchester Polytechnic under the auspices of Tony Ross. His first children's trade picture book The Secret in the Matchbox published by André Deutsch and Farrar, Straus and Giroux was shortlisted for the Mother Goose Award in the UK and won a Parents' Choice Award in the US in 1989.

From 1987-2008, Shelley lived in Tokyo, illustrating for advertising and publishing. He rose to prominence following a long term series of posters for Parco, the fashion retail chain of Seibu Department Stores, and animated TV commercials for Mitsubishi Estate Co.in the early 1990s. He received a Dentsu Ad Award for a Suntory Whisky newspaper ad in 1991, and a Nikkei Environmental Ad Award in 1993.[1] From 2000-2007, he was Vice Chairman of the International Committee of the Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA).[2]

Children's Books
His first book commission was Jeremy Strong's Fatbag (1983), since when he's illustrated many titles for publishers in the UK, Japan and the USA. He's the illustrator for the Japanese edition of Jenny Nimmo's Children of the Red King series (Tokuma Shoten). He's a former Board member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

In 2002, he launched the comic character "Brat" which appeared in Japan on apparel, collectors figurines and ran as a web comic.[3][4] Shelley returned to the UK in 2008 following the death of his wife, and currently lives in Norfolk.[5]

Sources & Refs
FEN Guide November 1991
Mainichi Shimbun Face No.330 2004
Icon Magazine September 2004
The Communicator February 2002

References

  1. ↑ http://jshelley.com/
  2. ↑ http://www.jagda.org
  3. ↑ http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/468/interview.asp
  4. ↑ Icon Magazine September 2004
  5. ↑ Featured Illustrator - John Shelley,Words and Pictures,7 November 2014

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