Alice Meichi Li

Alice Meichi Li (李美姿) is a Chinese-American, New York City-based visual artist and illustrator for comic books, magazines, and album covers.

Early life

Li was born to immigrants of Chinese descent, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan.

They went on to major in Cartooning at School of Visual Arts in New York City, later switching to Illustration. While at SVA, they became the only Illustration student in their year to receive the Alumni Scholarship Award.

Bibliography

Covers

• Elephantmen #36 (2011, Back Cover) Image Comics
• Mega Man #21 (2013, Variant Cover) Archie Comics
• Rick and Morty: Lil' Poo-py Superstar #1 (2016, Variant Cover) Oni Press

Sequentials

• Reading With Pictures (2010, TPB, ) (Harvey Award-nominated)
• Secret Identities Volume 2: Shattered (2012, TPB, ) The New Press
• Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter (2014, Hardcover, ) Andrews McMeel Publishing

Interior illustrations

• GirlsDrawinGirls Volume 4: The Way Nature Made Her (2011, Hardcover, )
• Once Upon a Time Machine (2012, TPB, ) Dark Horse Comics (Harvey Award-nominated)
• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (2014, Softcover, ) Crossed Genres Publications
• Hana Doki Kira (2014, TPB) The Year 85 Group

Magazines

• CMYK Magazine (2009)
• YRB Magazine (2011)

Exhibitions

Group

• Tripnotica NYC (2007) Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
• NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition (2010) Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY
• Alt.Comics: Asian American Artists Reinvent the Comic Book (2012) Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY

Juried

• Gamescape (2011) Artscape, Baltimore, MD

Recognition

• The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: 2002 (Two Silver Keys)
• Worldstudio AIGA: 2002 (W.K. Kellogg Foundation Award)
• American Illustration: 2007 (Chosen)
• Applied Arts Illustration Awards: 2009 (Editorial Category)
• Harvey Awards: 2011 (Nominated, Best Anthology & Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers), 2013 (Nominated, Best Anthology)
• Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles: 2008, 2013 (Silver Award)

References

External links

• "Music, Genetics and Fantasy: An Alice Meichi Li Gallery". io9 (2010-03-04), by Ann VanderMeer