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Amelia Cossentino

“Hamlet, cast off thy nighted colors. All-black is only fashionable in the City.”

Cartoonist and illustrator, Long Island, New York. Work in The New Yorker and Weekly Humorist.

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Cartoon by Amelia Cossentino: "Hamlet, cast off thy nighted colors. All-black is only fashionable in the City."

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Sketchbook

Pages from 2024 to 2026. Two of them became cartoons above; the lightbox shows the pair.

Sketchbook page: birds of Look Left! with their names — Amelia Cossentino
December 29, 2024
Sketchbook page: bird poses and an ifrit — Amelia Cossentino
December 30, 2024
Sketchbook page: people — Amelia Cossentino
Sketchbook page: Barb and Sullivan in costume — Amelia Cossentino
Sketchbook page: a frog in a pot on a stove, and an owl with a lollipop — Amelia Cossentino
Sketchbook page: rough drafts — Amelia Cossentino
Sketchbook page: rough for the cartoon with the sign reading The End Is Profitable — Amelia Cossentino
January 31, 2025
Sketchbook page: griffins — Amelia Cossentino
January 25, 2025
Sketchbook page: birds in ink, with the note getting residual ink out — Amelia Cossentino
June 1, 2026 “Getting residual ink out!”
Sketchbook page: rough of a family at a counter — Amelia Cossentino
Sketchbook page: dogs and a wolf, with the note don't make me draw people — Amelia Cossentino
“Don't make me draw people!”
Sketchbook page: rough of robots at a boardroom table — Amelia Cossentino
Sketchbook page: birds in ink — Amelia Cossentino

Look Left!

Her own series: Sullivan, Barb, Alistair and the other birds of Look Left!, in finished art, character sheets and color studies.

Amelia Cossentino, drawing in a sketchbook outdoors

About

Amelia Cossentino is a cartoonist and illustrator from Long Island, New York. Her cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker and Weekly Humorist, and she drew for the Harvard Lampoon as an undergraduate.

Look Left! is her own series, a flock of birds she has been building in character sheets, color studies and pitch art.

She plays the tuba when the tuba allows.

Her mark: amc, boxed, in crayon

Work in

  • The New Yorker
  • Weekly Humorist
  • The Harvard Lampoon

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For interest in cartoon or illustration work, or if you saw a cool bird or meme.