Joey Yu

Biography

Joey Yu is a London-based illustrator and animator. A graduate of the Kingston School of Art in 2017, she has gone on to work with clients such as RIMOWA, De Beers, the Guardian, Lulu Guinness, Tate, and more. Previous artist-residency locations include Seoul and Brazil. With her expressive mixture of both immediate hand-drawn styles and digital sketches, she hopes to continue daydreaming, playing with perspectives and warping the ways we view things. 

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FICTION / Fall 2021

Man, Man, Et Cetera

By Cal Shook ,  Illustration by Joey Yu

You schedule the U-Haul for a weekend when your husband plans to be in the woods. You do not repeat your argument that camping isn’t medication or therapy. That it cannot, in other words, fix him. You make him a sandwich for the drive to...

Illustration by Joey Yu
FICTION / Fall 2021

Reunion

By Kevin Canty ,  Illustration by Joey Yu

He was doing the dishes, midmorning, when he noticed the white car drive by, and drive by again. A quiet street, on the way to nowhere. At eleven, the school bus would show up, to deliver lunches to the children who couldn’t go to school...

Illustration by Joey Yu
FICTION / Fall 2021

Litter

By Anum Asi ,  Illustration by Joey Yu

Nadia knows, when the mother leaves them, that they will die. They lurch from side to side, low on the ground, ears folded over into crinkled triangles. Claws soft, mouths brown with dirt, meowing in the damp soil of the flower bed.

Illustration by Joey Yu