This is the June cover that New York based, Pulitzer prize winning Canadian illustrator Barry Blitt has drawn, a recognizable synopsis of where Prime Minister Trudeau now stands. It goes with an article in Canada’s heralded The Walrus (which just received 19 nominations for the 2024 National Magazine Awards).

Blitt is best known for New Yorker covers like this “Class of ’24” (above) from a couple of weeks ago, and his endless digs at former president Donald Trump (below ). You can see all his works for the New Yorker here. Or on his website, here.

For nearly three decades, the Montreal-born artist has created evocative editorial cartoons for The New Yorker — and other media – and in 2020, he won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.

The Pulitzer judges honoured Blitt “for work that skewers the personalities and policies emanating from the Trump White House with deceptively sweet watercolor style and seemingly gentle caricatures.”

His piece on Trudeau so effectively encompasses the backed into danger situation that many Canadians (almost everyone, in fact) believe the prime minister faces now. High skill.

Illustrator Nancy Liang says she “explores whimsy and magic” in her art, a passion that’s clear in these wonderful GIFs.

“Using my interest in dioramas, my illustrations take shape through textures and colors from papers, found objects and other miscellaneous materials,” she says.

See more on her website, here.

Or her Tumblr, here.

Young is a renowned artist and author, whose work is exhibited and collected internationally. She spends her days creating miniature worlds from fine Japanese papers.

Since graduating from sculpture and printmaking at the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1995, Cybèle has been showing her work in galleries around the world, including New York, LA, Miami, London, Stockholm, Japan, Singapore, Korea and across Canada.

“I create exact miniature replicas of real life objects and abstract shapes,” Young says.

“Before the sculptures are sequestered to life under glass, I often animate their moving parts in stop motion film works, offering clues to their fictional history.” See the stop motion video below or on Vimeo here.

Her work resides in major collections around the world – including OMERS, Ernst and Young, BMO, Gryphon, Canadian Foreign Affairs and the Canada Council Art Bank – and in the private homes of collectors such as Ben Stiller, Noah Baumbach, and Christian Louboutin.

Cybèle Young’s website, here.

Her Instagram, here.

Her books, here.

Henry Hao is a painter and watercolour illustrator focused on the everyday moments of life, captured along with Toronto’s urban culture and charm.

Hao, based in Toronto, is a former fashion designer who graduated from the Donghua University College of Fashion and Art Design and furthered his studies at the Copenhagen SAGA International Design Center. 

Hao is exhibiting at this year’s Artist Project (April 11-14) in Toronto, here.

Henry Hao’s Instagram, here.

His page from the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, here.

Image at top of post: Boy in Red, here.