Binglin {bing-ling} is an award-winning author-illustrator, cartoonist-designer, and multidisciplinary maker of things. He is an enjoyer and creator of accessible science communication, playful design, and strange storytelling.

Binglin has created work with Minnesota Public Radio, the National Aquarium, GKIDS, Harmonix, The Nib, Oni Press, and more. Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City is his debut graphic novel, an urban science story co-created with science-communicator Rosemary Mosco. You can order it through your local bookstore.

For fun, Binglin enjoys tinkering with fiber, gardening, and translating Chinese short fiction.

2024-2025 Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice Award — Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City, presented by the Oregon Association of School Libraries.

2023 Outstanding Anthology Ignatz Award — Shades of Fear, presented by Small Press Expo.

2020 Outstanding Anthology Ignatz Award — Be Gay, Do Comics, presented by Small Press Expo.

Please contact me at binglinhu.art@gmail.com with your project specs and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. Timeline and budget are helpful details to have before getting started.

Types of work I’m interested in taking on at this time include: science/bio art, editorial illustration, book illustration, and layout/publication design. I am selective about graphic novel pitches, but please contact me anyway if you believe my work will be a strong fit.

Thank you for your interest!

I co-run an online shop with my partner and fellow artist, Ashanti Fortson, at seatoad.bigcartel.com.

I post digital wares for sale on itch.io. I’m also on Patreon and Ko-fi.