Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Educator Larissa Marantz strives to create visually appealing images and enjoys teaching students young and old how to do the same. After earning a BFA in Fine Arts at California State University, Fullerton, Larissa continued her education at the Animation Guild and The Animation Academy. She later returned to CSUF and the Animation Academy as a teaching artist. Larissa also taught for over a decade in the Animation and Illustration departments at Laguna College of Art + Design. She now teaches with the Fine Arts department at Saddleback College. As the owner of OC Art Studios, she began her company teaching art to young elementary school students for over 15 years. Since then, she's taught at companies such as CAT Animation, New Masters Academy, Cartoon Network, LinkedIn and Google.  She worked as a Character Designer for Nickelodeon's Rocket Power and Rugrats TV shows and has illustrated almost a dozen books for Nickelodeon's licensed properties, including Rugrats All Grown Up, The Wild Thornberrys, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Her recent illustrated projects are CHARLIE AND THE OCTOPUS, Avenue A Publishing, and CLYDE THE HIPPO picture book series, published by Penguin Workshop. Her current project is BLAKE LASER, an epic graphic novel to be published by HarperCollins in 2024.
Larissa is represented by Rachel Orr of Prospect Literary. To contact Rachel, please email rko(a)prospectagency.com.

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