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Jaqwan Sirls (born 1986), known professionally as JQ Sirls, is an American singer, artist and author, designer, and entertainer. He is the founder of Fantoria, an in-house multimedia company that produces fantastical children’s content.

Early life and education
Sirls was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. From childhood, Sirls had an interest in art and used to draw sketches. He received a Bachelor's degree in English from Rockhurst University in 2010, and a Masters Degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Full-Sail University in 2015.

Career
In 2007, Sirls held his first solo exhibition, titled, “Carnival” in Kansas City, Missouri, held at the UMKC Culture House. After the event Shane W. Evans, hired Sirls as an intern and mentee. In 2009, Sirls released his first solo picture book, The Book of I.F. (Imaginary Friends), published by Bulb-Factory. The book features 19 “lovably odd misfits” from his ‘Carnival’ exhibit, showcased alongside poetic biographies of each character. Later in the year, Sirls released his first musical album-EP Urkel under the pseudonym Wonkachild. Written, produced, and performed by Sirls, the album gave him widespread popularity as an underground alternative hip-hop artist. The popularity of the record led to a meeting with then up-and-coming music producers, Da Internz, who produced records on Sirls’sI'm up all night. I’m up all night. follow up mixtape, The Anti-Mannequin Movement.

Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Sirls released his second picture book, No Monster No!, published by Moodi Studios in 2014.

Following the success of No Monster No!, Sirls created his own independent publishing studio for children, Fantoria, in 2015. Sirls rereleased No Monster No! under Fantoria that same year.

Sirls’ third picture book, It All Started When, was published in 2016 under Fantoria. Co-illustrated and written with the reader, the book details the world of Fantoria and it’s shape-shifting inhabitants, The Imagi.

In 2018, Sirls teamed up with hairstylist and author, Angela C. Styles to illustrate the picture book, Hair. Later in the year, he began work on his fourth solo picture book, The Moon is Following Me. The book is about a little boy's humorous attempts to convince his family that the moon is following him every night. The book was successfully funded on Kickstarter on September 18th, 2019 and it set to be released on April 21st 2020. In 2019 Sirls re-released The Book of I.F. (renamed to The Book of Imaginary Friends) as a semi-interactive digital picture books under Fantoria.

On July 1st, 2019, Sirls re-released his album Urkel as himself. The album has been renamed to Wonkachild as a tribute to his former moniker.

Sirls is responsible for the album art to Commitment, by Siya; the mixtape art to Everyday is Valentines Day, produced by Da Internz; the book cover art to The Wait, a NY Times Bestseller by film producer DeVon Franklin and actress Meagan Good; and The Success Commandments by DeVon Franklin.

As illustrator only

 * Hair, by Angela C. Styles (Feb 2018)