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Erica Harrison.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Erica Harrison: British illustrator of the Detective Stanley comics, bright, funny whodunits starring a pancake-loving dog sleuth, for newly independent readers aged 5 to 8.

Erica Harrison is a British illustrator and children's book designer who draws the Detective Stanley series, written by Hannah Tunnicliffe and published by Flying Eye Books. Starring a pancake-loving, Sherlock-style dog coaxed out of retirement to crack cases at the Narlybone Museum and Botanical Gardens, the books are bright, funny, satisfyingly twisty whodunits built for children moving on from picture books. Harrison's warm humour and gorgeous colour do much of the storytelling, tucking clues and jokes into every panel. She spent years as a designer and illustrator at Usborne before working from studios in Brighton, New York and Auckland, and that long grounding in children's publishing shows in the polish of her comic debut, aimed at readers aged 5 to 8.