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Xanthe Bouma.

Illustrator · United States

Xanthe Bouma: American illustrator on the 5 Worlds art team (with Matt Rockefeller and Boya Sun) — richly painted, animation-quality middle-grade sci-fi graphic novels.

Xanthe Bouma is an American illustrator who, with Matt Rockefeller and Boya Sun, forms the art team of Mark and Alexis Siegel's 5 Worlds middle-grade graphic-novel series, a five-volume sci-fi epic across an interplanetary system. Bouma's contribution to the team is character design, atmosphere and colour palette; the books rely on a richly painted, cinematic, fully-coloured graphic-novel style closer to animation pre-production than to standard comics linework. She also works in editorial illustration and animation. Her role in this corpus is specifically as part of the 5 Worlds art team.