Karen Fredericks is an illustrator and cartoonist. After graduating from The Cooper Union in New York City, she spent time as an art director and creative director at various agencies before becoming an illustrator. Karen's award-winning cartoon strip, Is It Just Me?, appears weekly in the Independent newspaper in East Hampton. After graduating college, she published a book of cartoon stories called Modern Love with Arbor House Publishing. The handbound precursor to that book is in the Artist's Book Collection at The Museum of Modern Art. Karen lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York, with her husband, Rick, their two dogs and four very noisy parakeets.