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Marcin Minor.

Illustrator · Poland

Polish illustrator whose atmospheric black-and-white artwork brings the Newbery Honor-winning Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest to life, holding the eerie and the tender in a single frame.

Marcin Minor is a Polish illustrator whose expressive black-and-white artwork gives shape to The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest (2025), Aubrey Hartman's Newbery Honor-winning fable about an undead fox who ushers animal souls to the afterlife. His quirky, atmospheric line work matches the book's rare balance of the macabre and the gentle, holding eeriness and tenderness in the same frame, and drew particular praise from reviewers for its whimsy. Working in a tradition of richly textured storybook illustration, Minor brings warmth and character to a story that turns on mortality, letting go and the meaning we build for ourselves. A distinctive interpreter of morally complex, emotionally serious fiction for older children.