Kelly Bastow is a comics creator and commercial illustrator best known for her beautiful ink and watercolor paintings of landscapes and body positivity. Kelly illustrated Quirk’s The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy; she has also drawn for the comics Lumberjanes, Adventure Time, and Capture Creatures. Her graphic novel Wax and Wane, with colors done by Manfried author Caitlin Major, was self-published in February 2017. In August 2017 her autobiographical comic Year Long Summer was nominated for an Ignatz Award.