Meet the author

Wotto.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Wotto: the doodle-style illustrator behind Cringe Club — chatty, meme-literate artwork that makes group-chat comedy irresistible to 8-12s.

Wotto is the pen name of Craig Watkins, a UK-born illustrator, doodler and designer whose bold, character-driven style has a warm, inclusive energy. He illustrates Emily-Jane Clark's Cringe Club, a laugh-out-loud tween comedy told entirely through group-chat messages, doodles and lists, following Kennedy King as she survives a mortifying first term at Hellington High and the wobbling friendships that come with a new secondary school. Across Cringe Club, Battle of the Besties and SOS, Wotto's chatty, meme-literate artwork keeps the format fizzing and instantly recognisable to its 8-12 audience. A designer with a love of character and doodle-style storytelling, he brings exactly the right visual voice to funny, format-driven fiction about the everyday cringe of growing up.