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Tomislav Tomic.

Illustrator · Croatia

Tomislav Tomic: Croatian illustrator behind Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures and other literary middle-grade fiction — intricate Victorian-natural-history-flavoured pen-and-ink art for ages 9–13.

Tomislav Tomic is a Croatian illustrator best known to UK children's-book readers as the visual partner on Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures (2023) and other middle-grade fiction including The Neverfear, The Poisoned King and The Songkeeper. Tomic's style is intricate, slightly Victorian, pen-and-ink, heavy with detailed creature drawings, ornamented borders and architectural fantasy, closer to nineteenth-century natural-history illustration than to contemporary picture-book art. A reliable visual signal of literary-flavoured, world-building-heavy middle-grade fiction for ages 9–13.