Half-Truths and Brazen Lies: An Honest Look at Lying

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The Secret Life of Money:
A Kid's Guide to Cash

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not your typical book about the environment

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CTON's Super A-Maze-ing Year of Crazy Comics!

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The Lowdown on Denim

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Catch the Wind,
Harness the Sun

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Clayton Hanmer (aka CTON) is an illustrator whose award-winning, energetic comic style has given him a surprisingly broad range of clients from The New York Times to National Geographic Kids. He has illustrated several children's books, including the 2021 Yellow Cedar Award-winning book, Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets Popular (Owlkids 2020), and The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers (Greystone Kids 2022). Clayton's latest collaboration, The Tragically Hip ABC (Tundra Books 2023), is one of Indigo's Top 10 Kids Books of 2023.

Most of Clayton’s focus has been on illustration and comic-based projects, but he also dabbles in teaching, graphic design, animation, and large-scale art projects. He lives in Bloomfield, Prince Edward County, with his talented wife, amazing daughter, a weird cat named Graphite and a goofy dog named Otter.

Highlights:

• Indigo's Top 10 Kids Books of 2023

• 2022 Science Writers & Communications of Canada Book Award;
Children and Youth Award category. 

• 2022 Science Writers & Communications of Canada Paradigm Prize

• 2021 Forest of Reading Yellow Cedar Award Winner

• 2021 Canadian Children's Book Week Touring Illustrator

• 2019 TD Summer Reading Club Artist

• Creator of 'What a Hoot' comics in Owl Magazine (2015-2022)

Clayton has worked with all these great folks:

The Globe & Mail, The New York Times, The Walrus, The Toronto Star, The National Post, Owl Magazine, Chickadee Magazine, Chirp Magazine, Bayard Press, Open Book Toronto, Nickelodeon Magazine, National Geographic Kids, Scholastic, Cottage Life Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Storey Publishing, Annick Press, ReThink Breast Cancer, The Progressive, Leo Burnett, Wrigley’s, BBDO, McDonald’s, MacLaren McCann, General Motors Canada, BMW Canada, Toshiba, Ford, Bic, Gravis Shoes, Butterfield & Robinson, Corus Entertainment Inc., Arts + Crafts Records, YMCA Canada, Second Cup Coffee, Made Good, Toronto Public Library, Prince Edward Public Library, Vortex Coffee, Black Bellows Brewing Co., Skiis & Biikes, Cultivate, Ontario Library Association, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Greystone Kids, Queen’s University, The Tragically Hip/Tundra Books, Exclaim! Magazine, NXNE, NOW Magazine, CondoVoice, Ottawa Public Library, Gearshift Films, Studio Wyse, University of Toronto, Carousel Magazine, Love Chix, Pyramid Attack, amongst others…

CTON (see-ton)

Commission inquiries: claytonhanmer@gmail.com

Book-related inquiries:
Fiona Kenshole @ Transatlantic
fiona@transatlanticagency.com

Clayton is affiliated with:
Reactor Art & Design
Trio Magnus