Illustoria 27: Bugs

Our bugs issue is devoted to these tiniest of heroes that keep our planet humming. Join along as we take a curious gaze and a magnifying lens to examine this miniature universe! Learn how to make delicious peanut butter snails with our in-house DogChef. Wow your friends by discovering how to draw a peacock jumping spider. Check out drawings of bugs as superheroes drawn by young artists from Montenegro, Romania, Hungary, and beyond. Read two fictional stories by eleven-year-old writers (from Minnesota and the Netherlands) about a scientific mishap that caused an insect to grow to an outrageous size. Create a buggy face mask out of found objects. Have your mind blown by numerous insect factoids curated by acclaimed illustrator Lauren Tamaki. Enjoy an interview with Peter Kuper; take a tour of an ant farm with Fuzzytown; and discover bug-themed brain teasers; book, music, and art-supply recommendations; bug avatars; puzzles; comics; and more!