About Akeem

Akeem S. Roberts is an illustrator, animator, and cartoonist based in Brooklyn, New York. Versed in many styles, Akeem is passionate about breathing life into stories through art.

His comic debut was in the Regular show special with BOOM Studios, and, more recently, he worked with Hasbro on issue 98 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Akeem sold his first New Yorker cartoon in 2019. In 2021, Akeem participated in Cartooning While Black, a Chelsea art gallery show that discussed race relations in a playful and charming way, along with other Black New Yorker cartoonists. Also in 2021, Akeem illustrated three middle-grade books with author John Dillard and the Kokila team. The JD book series has won multiple awards, including the School Library Journal Best Books of 2021, the New York Public Library Best Books of 2021, the Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2021, a 2022 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book, was shortlisted for the Iris Award 2022 and was a recipient of the Texas Bluebonnet Masterlist 2022-2023.

When he's not working with clients, Akeem draws weekly comics about his life with his wife and two cats on Instagram.

CLIENTS INCLUDE:

New Yorker Magazine, Men's Health, Kokila, Random Penguin House, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Conde Nast, Venmo, Harper Collins, Hachette Books, and more!