Alice Meichi Li

Alice Meichi Li (李美姿) is a Chinese-American, New York City-based visual artist and illustrator for comic books, magazines, and album covers.

Early life
Li was born to immigrants of Chinese descent, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan.

She went on to major in Cartooning at School of Visual Arts in New York City, later switching to Illustration. While at SVA, she became the only Illustration student in her year to receive the Alumni Scholarship Award.

Covers

 * Elephantmen #36 (2011, Back Cover) Image Comics
 * Mega Man #21 (2013, Variant Cover) Archie Comics
 * Rick and Morty: Lil' Poo-py Superstar #1 (2016, Variant Cover) Oni Press

Sequentials

 * Reading With Pictures (2010, TPB, ISBN 978-0578052762) (Harvey Award-nominated)
 * Secret Identities Volume 2: Shattered (2012, TPB, ISBN 978-1595588241) The New Press
 * Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter (2014, Hardcover, ISBN 978-1449458782) Andrews McMeel Publishing

Interior illustrations

 * GirlsDrawinGirls Volume 4: The Way Nature Made Her (2011, Hardcover, ISBN 978-1450781701)
 * Once Upon a Time Machine (2012, TPB, ISBN 978-1616550400) Dark Horse Comics (Harvey Award-nominated)
 * Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (2014, Softcover, ISBN 978-0-9913921-0-0) Crossed Genres Publications
 * Hana Doki Kira (2014, TPB) The Year 85 Group

Magazines

 * CMYK Magazine (2009)
 * YRB Magazine (2011)

Group

 * Tripnotica NYC (2007) Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
 * NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition (2010) Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY
 * Alt.Comics: Asian American Artists Reinvent the Comic Book (2012) Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY

Juried

 * Gamescape (2011) Artscape, Baltimore, MD

Recognition

 * The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: 2002 (Two Silver Keys)
 * Worldstudio AIGA: 2002 (W.K. Kellogg Foundation Award)
 * American Illustration: 2007 (Chosen)
 * Applied Arts Illustration Awards: 2009 (Editorial Category)
 * Harvey Awards: 2011 (Nominated, Best Anthology & Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers), 2013 (Nominated, Best Anthology)
 * Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles: 2008, 2013 (Silver Award)