Meet the author

Kay Davault.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Kay Davault: American author-illustrator of Misfit Mansion, Oddity Woods and Star Knights — gentle-gothic middle-grade graphic novels for ages 8–12.

Kay Davault is an American author-illustrator known for middle-grade graphic novels with a distinctly creepy, gentle-gothic register, Misfit Mansion, Mayhem at Misfit Mansion, Oddity Woods, and the Star Knights graphic novel, plus the Llama Quest fantasy series. Davault's style is character-led, expressive and warm without being cute, with a strong sense of design, close in feel to Kat Leyh (Snapdragon) or Kayla Miller, but with more of a Halloween / supernatural tilt. A core contemporary middle-grade graphic-novel author for ages 8–12, especially for readers drawn to gentle-spooky friendship-and-found-family stories.