Zina Saunders

Zina Saunders (born August 30, 1953) is a Manhattan-based artist, writer, animator and educator.

She has illustrated for a variety of publishers (Simon & Schuster, Random House, Scholastic Books, Oxford University Press), while contributing to magazines, including The Wall Street Journal,[1] The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Time Out New York and Outré.

[3] Subjects include amateur astronomers, bike messengers, carnival costume designers, cricket players, keepers of rooftop pigeon coops, kite flyers, scuba divers, street performers, subway musicians and urban gardeners.

[4] In 2010, for Mother Jones, she began creating regular weekly animations (which feature Saunders doing the voices of all the characters).

[6] She has contributed to numerous trading card sets, including Wacky Packages, Magic: The Gathering and Goosebumps.