About Yury

Yury Guzman is a Guatemalan-American illustrator and comic artist. Her art centers around fantasy and queer themes. She works with digital mediums, with her style focusing on playful line art and saturated color palettes to produce strong character driven work. When creating illustrations, her main goal is to incorporate a strong sense of narrative and facial expressions. 

Yury previously collaborated with a writer on a comic in the anthology “MAÑANA: Latinx Comics From The 25th Century” and had two short comics published in volumes 8 & 9 of “Dirty Diamonds: An All-Girl Comic Anthology”. She has also worked as a full-time Illustrator for the YouTube channel “Pencilmation.” In her free time, she works on her fantasy coming-of-age webcomic called “Ekal B. Blake.”

She is Connecticut based with a BFA in Animation and Minor in Illustration from the College of Art and Design at Lesley University.

For book/publishing and other work inquiries, please contact her literary agent Saritza Hernandez: saritza@andreabrownlit.com

For general inquiries, please contact Yury directly: yuryg.draws@gmail.com

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