Patrice Aggs was born in Detroit Michigan and studied at St John's College, Annapolis and City & Guilds Art School in London. Since then she has illustrated more than 50 childrens books, worked in pre-computer animation (including "the Snowman" at TVC ) and produced etchings and watercolours now in collections in Europe, The USA and Japan. Magazine work and commissions include Ladybug, the DFC, Eaglemoss, Art in Hospitals and the GLC. Her lifelong passion is comics, particularly American newspaper strips.