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Terry Denton.

Writer & illustrator · Australia · b. 1950

Terry Denton: Australian illustrator behind the Treehouse books and the Just! collections — the loose, gag-saturated visual engine of one of children's publishing's most heavily-illustrated chapter-book franchises.

Terry Denton is an Australian illustrator born in 1950, best known as the long-time visual collaborator of Andy Griffiths on the Just! short-story collections and the Treehouse series. Denton's style, loose, energetic, marker-and-line cartooning packed with running gags, side characters and visual asides, is the visual engine of those franchises, which would not be the same in any other illustrator's hands. He also writes and illustrates his own picture books (Wombat and Fox, Felix and Alexander) and the Gasp! series. A defining illustrator in contemporary Australian children's publishing, and one of the most heavily-illustrated chapter-book voices in print.