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Raúl is an award-winning illustrator, author, and artist whose work frequently centers around the contemporary Mexican-American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He’s the illustrator of the Low-riders series, a bestselling graphic novel trilogy, the second of which, Low-riders to the Center of the Earth, earned Raúl his first Pura Belpre Medal for Illustration. His lauded picture book series for children, ¡VAMOS!, began in 2019 with ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market!, a dual language picture book set in a bustling border town, for which he won a Pura Belpre Honor and praise as being both entertaining and informative through its engaging detailed art, Spanish vocabulary, and cultural references. His follow up ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat! won him a second Pura Belpre Medal earlier this year. It was recently optioned to become an animated series with Silvergate. This fall, his profile continues to grow as he joins #1 New York Times bestseller and the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jason Reynolds, on Stuntboy, in the Meantime (11/30). Stuntboy is Jason’s first illustrated middle grade novel and he hand-picked Raúl the Third, to create the art for the book.
Big Thank you to our partners:
Introduction by: Richie Marrufo - Barbed Wire Open Mic Series @elpasobwoms
Hosting Gallery: Amano Artist Co - Op @amanoartistcoop
Music by: Enzo Music @mediamorebyenzo Production: Angel Ricci @recnsnap
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Raúl is an award-winning illustrator, author, and artist whose work frequently centers around the contemporary Mexican-American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He’s the illustrator of the Low-riders series, a bestselling graphic novel trilogy, the second of which, Low-riders to the Center of the Earth, earned Raúl his first Pura Belpre Medal for Illustration. His lauded picture book series for children, ¡VAMOS!, began in 2019 with ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market!, a dual language picture book set in a bustling border town, for which he won a Pura Belpre Honor and praise as being both entertaining and informative through its engaging detailed art, Spanish vocabulary, and cultural references. His follow up ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat! won him a second Pura Belpre Medal earlier this year. It was recently optioned to become an animated series with Silvergate. This fall, his profile continues to grow as he joins #1 New York Times bestseller and the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jason Reynolds, on Stuntboy, in the Meantime (11/30). Stuntboy is Jason’s first illustrated middle grade novel and he hand-picked Raúl the Third, to create the art for the book.
Big Thank you to our partners:
Introduction by: Richie Marrufo - Barbed Wire Open Mic Series @elpasobwoms
Hosting Gallery: Amano Artist Co - Op @amanoartistcoop
Music by: Enzo Music @mediamorebyenzo Production: Angel Ricci @recnsnap