Angola: Illustrated Journal

Painting, Writing, and Publishing a Book

In the summer of 2024 Bethany and her husband Michael travelled to the south-west Africa country of Angola. While there Bethany and Michael wrote about their experiences and are working on an Illustrated Journal documenting their time there. Fill out the form below to be notified when it becomes available.

About Michael

Michael Hoskin is a librarian and archivist with strong interests in Africa and comics. As a freelance writer for Marvel Comics (2004-2012), he headed up writing projects such as the All-New Iron Manual, Annihilation Saga, Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone, and Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files, and he served as a contributing writer to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. In 2019 he published his first biography “The Benefit of Steel: The Life & Times of Dr. Steve Foster” available in print and as an ebook.

About Bethany

Bethany is an international artist, illustrator and designer with a focus on creating narrative portraits for the elite music industry. She paints mainly in acrylic with an expressive realist style in genres like portraiture, landscape and still life. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California and a Bachelor of Design degree in Visual Communications from the Alberta University of the Arts. She is Past President of the Calgary Sketch Club and a member of CARFAC Alberta and the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. Her paintings are in private collections in Canada, the United States and abroad.