Raúl the Third is a prominent Latinx artist and children’s comic book artist. He won the 2017 Pura Belpre illustration award, and has been named a 2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow and a 2015 Brother Thomas Fellow. He is best known for the graphic novel Lowriders in Space, with Cathy Camper. Raúl the Third also contributes to the Spongebob Squarepants comics and has exhibited his art across the country. He teaches comics and drawing at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. In 2010 he completed on his first large scale mural sponsored by the Boston Arts Commission and installed in East Boston. His newest book is the second in the Lowriders series, Lowriders to the Center of the Earth. In their review, Kirkus called the book “satisfyingly over-the-top mayhem.”

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