Kyle Hilton

Jackson, MS - Illustrator for The New York Times, Variety and more. As seen in Neil Patrick Harris's "Magic Misfits", out now from Little, Brown Books

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ALL DOLL-OW’S EVE

Day 2: PHOEBE BRIDGERS

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To celebrate the best week of the damn year, I’m kicking off 6 NIGHTS OF DOLL-OWEEN, putting together some cut-out-able versions of my favorite spooky folk. 

Night 1 - ONYX THE FORTUITOUS 

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I had the honor of working on these fun paper dolls for @netflixfilm’s #EnolaHolmes starring Millie Bobby Brown. Disguises and dresses galore, print, cut and play along while you watch!

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A Christmas miracle! Literary Paper Dolls was graciously included in Amazon’s Editor’s Picks of 2015 list, along with a ton of other great Chronicle Books titles. So if you’re looking for a Christmas gift - or hell, give a pal a Thanksgiving gift once in a while - for your aspiring writer friends, English teachers, or anybody with a good pair of scissors and an hour to kill, do I have the book-shaped thing for you!

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KYLE HILTON also created this important document that I enjoy. 

Go to HIS WEBSITE for more things. 

That is all. 

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Judge John Hodgman rules.

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In honor of Ernest Hemingway’s birthday today, here’s a paper doll from my Literary Paper Dolls book.  I can’t promise he’ll smile, BUT feel free to print him out and throw a miniature party anyway.  

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Just realized Literary Paper Dolls comes out in like two months! Really, really proud of how this book turned out.  It’s got 16 classic authors, and most of them were already favorites of mine, so this was a really fun project.  It’s kept me happily busy for a while, so I’m excited to be able to share some of it finally.  It’s got a bunch of Hopefully Historically Accurate™ facts, props, and dumb jokes, so there should be both book-learnin’ AND fun to be had.  And most importantly, terrible paper cuts to endure.

Here’s two of the authors featured that Amazon’s got online, so thought I could go ahead and share them here.    

Comes out July 28th from Chronicle Books! (And not to sound like a salesman, but you can pre-order it here.  IF you like doing that.)

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Whew, it’s been a while! Just been keeping busy with work and regular life stuff for the past little bit, but who cares - Daredevil is finally out!  Holy crap, all the hype was right.  Daredevil has long been my favorite-looking comic.  Wally Wood’s red suit has to be the best superhero design of them all, just a simple solid red that pops on every page no matter who’s drawing it.  So I was really excited to see a realistic, dramatic version of it.  Hah, and when the last episode’s credits came up, I caught myself smiling ear to ear like a 6 year old in my computer screen. The whole show is just so damn cool.  So anyway, here’s a thing I doodled based on Bill Everett’s classic Daredevil #1 cover and the new costume.  Whoo! Daredevil!

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ART HISTORY PAPER DOLLS available now from Chronicle Books!

Get ready for some back to school fun with 16 Artists and over 100 interactive, educationally cuttable activities. Cut off Van Gogh's ear and more!

Available wherever books are sold!

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I am very excited for next Tuesday, August 5, to get here.  Art History Paper Dolls will be in stores and I can finally share what I’ve been working on for a while now!

Without sounding too Zach Braff-y here, this Tumblr community has been such a generous and safe place to take first steps at something. Somehow making a living as an illustrator started 5 years ago with some really wonky, rough-around-the-edges Arrested Development paper dolls and a Tumblr account.  You guys thought they were fun enough to share, and kept sharing them.  And like for so many other “creative” Tumblrers, every like and reblog since has encouraged and challenged me to try and be better.  So, thank you.

Sappiness aside, I am very, very excited to get to put this little experiment of humor, education, and interactive paper craft out into the world.  If you like Art History (or hate it and want to take voodoo-style revenge for those damned 10-page papers!), you can find it Tuesday in your local bookstore and online.

But for now, here’s Mr. Jackson Pollock!

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A tasty dream come true, I got to work with Jack in the Box recently on an official paper doll of their beloved "Jack Box" mascot.

They just went up on the restaurant chain's official Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.  And like Jack said, you can print them out but "...please don't do any weird voodoo stuff."

Art Direction: Secret Weapon Marketing

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"So tell me Curly, how do you know Miss Cross?"

Posting a little ahead of the ideal 'promotion window' for my book, but ah, screw it, here's the first of several Wes Anderson dolls I've been piddling with lately.  More soon! 

And Now For The Plug™:  My paper doll book Art History Paper Dolls is available for pre-order from Chronicle Books!

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Vulture and I put together some fun New Girl paper dolls for your free enjoyment!  Jess, Nick, Schmidt and Winston all ready for a round of True American on your desk.  Check out the high-res versions over at Vulture.

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Doll #26 Jesse Pinkman, Breaking Bad I posted a group photoset a few months back of the rest of these Breaking Bad dolls I did last year.  But I never posted them individually and linked them under the “All Paper Dolls (So Far)” tag.  So, anyway, short story long, the next 5 posts are those dolls. 

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Tomorrow’s guest, as a paper doll.

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Life Goal #7: Get reblogged by NPR and/or Terry Gross: Check.  

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Doll #43 Vincent Vega, Pulp Fiction

With the new trailer for Django Unchained online this past week, I decided to make a new addition to my Tarantino doll collection.  Though there are some really great Tarantino action figures and even Pulp Fiction action figure-style illustrations already out there, I couldn't pass up a chance to make one myself.   

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Doll #39 Hannah Horvath, Girls

Vulture and I collaborated again this week on a new set of paper dolls for HBO's Girls.  As a huge fan of the show's storytelling and visual aesthetic, these were such a treat to make. Click here for the article and the other dolls.

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Doll #38 Frank Reynolds, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Finally getting back to some paper dolls.  Sorry for the severe lack of any lately! Here's Frank to help almost complete your Always Sunny set.  And lastly but certainly not least, Sweet Dee will come very soon. Enjoy!