Hi! I’m Valerie Light.

I love the Hudson Valley, and that’s the subject of my first picture book, Local Baby: Hudson Valley. Find it at local bookshops like Stanza, (pictured!) Oblong Books, DIA, Barnes & Noble, and more!

My personal work is focused on creative nonfiction comics about growing up in factory towns. I have work in 4 anthologies, plus a self published mini comic and a lot of work in progress. Catch me tabling at KICX in Kingston and the Nonfiction Comics Fest in Burlington VT this year.

I’m all in on local projects around Peekskill. Half of my time I’m at New Era Creative Space teaching afterschool art classes for grades 6+. The rest of the time it’s art commissions, teaching workshops, painting murals, leading tours at Manitoga, and whatever else I can think of.

I’m open to freelance projects and commissions.

I love lettering, maps, comics, and cutaways.