Kathy O'Connell

Artist

Writer

I am a visual storyteller and artist.

After you read my graphic novel you will know more about me than anyone should know. I grew up in a catholic orphanage and sometimes, for awhile, I'd go to foster homes. But I'd
usually screw up and they would return me like a broken toy. I did grow up eventually (sort of) and recieved a full scholarship to the Art Institute of Philadelphia. I picked them because they had really cool TV commercials.

I found out I really liked learning and I just kept going to college. I took classes in anything that interested me. I have three B.S's in Science,Professional Writing and Psychology. In case you haven't figured it out by now I also have a A.D.H.D degree in distract-ability.Turns out lots of creative types have a whole circus going on in their heads at all times, which is really lots of fun. I love to explore the world, another way to satisfy my insatiable craving for knowledge, so I travel, a lot.

I always come back to art, like a migrating bird comes home when springtime breezes scream. There's no question in my mind that I have to create, I have to express my thoughts, my impressions about the world around me in a visual form. It's just an itch I gotta scratch.

• I have done illustrations for:
• M&M/ Mars
• Disney,
• Salerno Cookies,
  
• Sunshine Cookies,
  
• NutriSystem,
  
• Dentyne,
  
• Skittles,
  
• Starburst
  
• Johnson&Johnson,
  
• Sunoco,
  
• Atlantic Oil,
  
• Fleer,
  
• Tyco,
  
• Matchbox
  
• Chef Rubber
  
• Downingtown Diner
  
• Habitat for Humanitity
  
• Longstreth Sports
  
• Nickelodeon,
  
• Just Say No
  
• Detail Magazine,
  
• Morgage Technology Magazine
  and many more.