James Nunn (born in 1973 in Yorkshire) is a British illustrator, print maker, and book cover artist. He is best known for the panda artwork on the cover of Lynn Truss's bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, and for creating many of the covers in the Shortest History book series. He also created The Corbyn Colouring Book, a colouring book themed on Jeremy Corbyn, and illustrated Colouring the Tour de France (2016), written by William Fotheringham. His artistic practice focuses on drawing and printmaking. In 2024, he won the Academy of British Cover Design's award in the young adult category for the cover of Federico Ivanier's Never tell anyone your name.
Bibliography Works created 2015 The Corbyn Colouring Book
Works illustrated 2003 Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss 2005 Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero by Catriona Kelly 2008 'Fail Better!: The worlds worst marketers and what we can learn from them by Stephen Brown 2018 The Time In Between by Marcello Fois, translated by Silvester Mazzarella 2019 White Horse by Yan Ge, translated by Nicky Harman 2021 Hinton, by Mark Blacklock 2021, 2022 The shortest history of Greece by James Heneage 2021 The shortest history of war by Gwynne Dyer 2023 Pig Ignorant: A Teenage Memoir by Nicholas Fisk 2024 Slightly Foxed Issue 80, ‘Now We Are 20’
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External links
Interview with James Nunn, at The Art Buyer