Artist

Zeke Peña

Illustrator

Zeke Peña is a cartoonist and illustrator from El Paso, Texas. He studied Art History at the University of Texas, Austin and is self-taught in illustration and painting. He has published work with VICE.com, Latino USA, The Believer Magazine, The Nib, Penguin Random House, Holt/Macmillan and Cinco Puntos Press. In 2018 he received the Boston Globe Horn Book Award for a graphic biography he illustrated titled Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. His first children’s book My Papi Has a Motorcycle was written by Isabel Quintero, published in Summer 2019 by Kokila, a Penguin Young Readers imprint.

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