- Shawn Braley
- Vermont
- Award-winning illustrator Shawn Braley didn’t inherit any artistic talent from anyone in his family, so he started manufacturing his own from a very early age. His first forays into creating included large sheets of blank newsprint with markers and pencils, lovingly supplied by his grandmother, Hazel. He was so infatuated with drawing superheros, that he colored his entire left hand blue just like Batman’s gloves. He was stopped before the right hand ‘glove’ could be applied. Once he saw his first illustration printed at the age of 7 in a local newspaper supplement, Braley was smitten with the world of publishing.