An American illustrator living in Barcelona, Philip Stanton earned an MFA degree in illustration from School of Visual Arts in New York and worked as an art director at Prentice Hall Press, before moving to Barcelona, years ago and founding Stanton Studio.

Since 1988, Stanton has participated, as a plastician artist in more than 40 solo and group exhibitions and has collaborated with newspapers, magazines and many Spanish and international companies. He is the author of several installations in public buildings in Barcelona.

Stanton is also head of the postgraduate illustration program and professor of illustration at the EINA Art & Design School in Barcelona.

As an illustrator of books for children and adults he has published more than 20 titles including collaborations with authors as Emili Teixidor, Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Ray Bradbury, Lee Bennett Hopkins, J. Patrick Lewis, Naguib Mahfouz, Juan Carlos Martín Ramos, Tomàs Garcés and Jorge Zentner. He is the author and illustrator of “La Gata Misha”, a series of children's books published in Spain by Grupo SM and Baula.

His work has been published and translated into English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Catalan, and Italian.