Michelle is an author-illustrator based in Liverpool, UK.  She makes picture books, comics and graphic novels as well as graphic medicine which explore the big themes of life in accessible ways, using her own brand of magical realism.

To see more of her work in progress please follow her on Instagram: @mklfreeman.

News

In September 2024 I started the prestigious MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. An illustration boot camp by any other name! Sketching in the streets of Cambridge and Liverpool in sub zero temperatures, enduring Britain's shambolic rail network, youth hostelling and drawing up a storm - all exactly where I need to be right now.

Work towards a new sequential story

A Love the 

Weight of an Animal

New poetry anthology by Liz Gibson, Illustrated by Michelle Freeman coming from Carmenta Press in 2025

Postcode Lottery

New comic in progress 

 BOXES magazine, Third Bear Press 

Comics 

Sketchbooks

Picture Books

Sylvie's Bird Hotel