Craig Phillips (cartoonist)

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Craig Phillips (born in Australia, 1974) is a New Zealand-based author/illustrator and publisher at Wildling Books, New Zealand.

Craig Phillips has worked as a professional illustrator for the US and Australian publishing industries for twenty years. His client list includes Random House, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Hachette, Hardie Grant, Bloomsbury, Oxford University Press and many more. His work has appeared in art anthologies such as The Society of Illustrators Annual, Spectrum Fantastic Art Annual and Luerzers 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, and has been exhibited at the Museum of American Illustration. Phillips also worked on Neil Gaiman's American Gods in 2017. Phillips has created illustrations for book publishers and poster art for Queens of the Stone Age, The Hives, Foo Fighters, with work appearing in the books The Art Of Modern Rock (published by Chronicle Books). ^[1][2]

His first solo work, a graphic novel titled, Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep Dark Woods, published by Allen & Unwin, was the recipient of the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2018 and a Gold Ledger Award, as well as being named a Notable Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. Craig then produced the first two graphic novels in the series The Adventures of Jack Scratch for Wildling Books. Comics are a huge love for Craig and something he has always wanted to create.

Phillips wrote and illustrated best selling picture book, Aroha's Way - A Children's Guide through Emotions, with co-creator Rebekah Lipp. Aroha's Way has appeared in the Nielsen Bestsellers List many times and ranked #3 in the Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 Books List 2020. Aroha's Way is a picture book for children around uncomfortable emotions; fear, apprehension, worrying thoughts and nervousness with ways to manage them. It has been translated into Te Reo Māori, Aroha Te Whai Ora - He mahere piropiro mā te tamariki, by Karena Kelly.

Other titles in the Aroha & Friend series are:

Let It Go - Emotions are energy in motion. Let It Go encourages children to explore what emotions feel like in their body and find a unique way to release them. Join Aroha and her friends as they navigate their way through four emotions: sadness, anger, shame and fear. The Latin derivative for the word emotion, ‘emotere,'  literally means energy in motion.

Aroha Knows - which helps children think about how they feel in nature and how that effects our wellbeing. Every book sold, 20c will be donated to Trees that Count to help plant native trees in Aotearoa.

He co-founded Wildling Books with other director, Rebekah Lipp, so they could have full creative freedom to create beautiful and meaningful books for children. Wildling Books was founded in 2018 with the first two books being published, Jack Scratch - The Quest for the Hiss-paniola and Jack Scratch - The Curse of the Kraken.

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