Vladimir Vasilʹevich Vagin (born 30 March 1937) is a Russian illustrator of books.
A 25th Anniversary Edition[clarification needed] of Here Comes the Cat!
was reissued in July 2011 by McSweeney's McMullens (bilingual text) OCLC 741310104.
[clarification needed] Vagin moved to the United States in 1990 and currently lives in Vermont.[when?]
He and Asch won the Picture Books Golden Duck Award in 1996 for their collaboration Insects from Outer Space (Scholastic, 1995).