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Aleksei Bitskoff.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Aleksei Bitskoff: an Estonian-born, UK-based illustrator whose lively line drawings power comic chapter-book series like Little Badman and Who Let the Gods Out?.

Aleksei Bitskoff is an Estonia-born, UK-based illustrator known for energetic black-and-white line work full of expressive characters and comic detail. Raised in Narva and trained at the London College of Communication and Camberwell College of Arts, he has become a busy fixture of British children's fiction, bringing scruffy, characterful artwork to bestselling illustrated series including Humza Arshad and Henry White's Little Badman and new-look editions of Louis Sachar's Wayside School. In the corpus his line drawings pepper Maz Evans's riotous Who Let the Gods Out? quartet, where his squabbling Greek gods and hapless mortals sharpen the comedy on every page. A reliable interior illustrator for funny, fast-moving chapter books aimed at readers of eight and up.