Alves, Josh (1982? - )

Genre: Children's Literature, Illustrator

Graphic designer and children's author/illustrator Josh Alves grew up in Rhode Island living upstairs from his influential grandparents. He attended high school in Bristol, RI and spent a year at Katharine Gibbs School studying visual communications. He has worked as a graphic arts technician at the Bangor Daily News as well as a comic strip artist with a couple of different strips running in the BDN. He is inspired by animation, drawing backgrounds as a separate layer then drawing the characters on top.

Selected Bibliography

Author/Illustrator

  • Lilly Bristol Dinosaur Wrangler and the Town a Tyrannosaurus Wrecks (2014)

Illustrator

  • Zeke Meeks Series written by Debra L. Green (2012, 2013)

Selected Resources