![A comic page showing a coyote, covered in sickly green tumors, panting as it crosses a desert landscape.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/kean-towle/images/coyote-square-1500.webp)
![A photo of a flag book opened to reveal a hidden illustration.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/kean-towle/images/loon-book-photo-small-1500.webp)
![A comic pagespread rendered in shades of blue and grey showing an anthropomorphic loon character exploring a dense woodland and encountering a white-capped chickadee.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/kean-towle/images/loon-book-itch-2-1500.webp)
![A mockup photo of a book, open to an interior pagespread. The book is typset as a novel. The left page features a realistic watercolor illustration of a dodo.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/kean-towle/images/capstone-mockup-dodo-1500.webp)
![An illustration of a feathered Velociraptor in a simple lineless style. Handwritten text on the image reads "V is for Velociraptor."](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/kean-towle/images/velociraptor-1500.webp)
![An animated diagram of a swamp cooler, in an isometric lineless style and rendered in shades of orange and teal.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/kean-towle/images/swampcooler-small-1500.webp)
![An animated gif showing two panels. In the first, a cat sits in a small, cozy cabin and looks out the window; its tail and ear flicks. The second shows the world outside the window: an open field with heavy rain and wind.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/kean-towle/images/dicatemy-small-1500.webp)
![A watercolor painting depicting a variety of wildlife in a marsh environment, including a brown pelican, great egret, snowy egret, American coots, double-crested cormorant, green sturgeon, leopard shark, and anchovies. The mountains of the San Francisco East Bay, including Fremont Peak and Mount Hamilton, are visible in the background.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/kean-towle/images/sf-bay-area-wildlife-smaller-1500.webp)
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Kean Towle 2024
BFA Illustration
Howdy! I'm Kean Towle (he/him/his), a writer and artist working in a wide range of
disciplines, including but not limited to illustration, comics, video games, music,
literature, and poetry. I am primarily interested in using traditionally escapist
genres and media (e.g. science fiction, fantasy, comics, video games, speculative
fiction) to explore grounded ideas in a literary way. Much of my work examines the
tension between an individual and society and the false dichotomy between humans and
other life on this planet.
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