Cece Bell

Cecelia Carolina Bell (born December 26, 1970) is an American freelance author and illustrator born in Richmond, Virginia. She attended the Paier College of Art as an art major and went on to get a graduate degree in illustration and design at Kent State University in 1991. She became a freelance commercial artist, illustrator and designer for an array of projects before beginning her career as a full-time author illustrator, Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Vegetarian Times, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Working Woman, Esquire and many other publications. Bell is married to children's author Tom Angleberger. She won the Newbery Medal Honor and Eisner Award for her book El Deafo.