Jason Novak

No Place Like Home

Illustrations depicting the lives of children living in Honduras, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Thousands of young Honduran refugees have fled the country’s chronic…

On the Border

The story of a Tibetan refugee living in California, as told to the illustrator

Hawks and Doves

Scenes of family detention centers in the United States juxtaposed with illustrations of mourning doves migrating from Central America to Canada.

Cut and Fold

A family detention center playset

Angels in Aleppo

Illustrations of Syrians struggling to survive in the civil war–torn city of Aleppo, by Jason Novak.

Self Help

The People’s Alarm

The artist’s interpretation of a speech given in 63 B.C. by Marcus Tullius Cicero, the consul of Rome, in which he denounced senator Lucius Sergius Catilina’s plot to overthrow the…

Again Gone By

An illustrated interpretation of “Gone, Gone Again,” by the British poet Edward Thomas. 

Park Dreams

A California park, drawn from memories of childhood

Moon Dream

An illustration of Johannes Kepler writing his science-fiction novel, Somnium, in 1608. 

The Polar Condition

“I do not believe anybody on Earth has a worse time than an emperor penguin.”

Kid Chocolate’s Place

Fight night at a gym in Havana