Christoph Hitz is an award-winning author/illustrator with a Swiss graphic design background. He has been living in the Catskills Mountains north of New York City. His work has appeared on Magazine Covers, Book Covers, Record and CD Covers, Websites, on the side of a Tram, in editorials in the United States and Europe. His diverse expertise range from conceptual illustration to character development, design to photo retouch, and animation. 

When he is not working on a specific project, Christoph is either gardening, cooking, skiing, restoring old furniture, working with clay, or writing a new story for his next picture book.

His illustrations are published by: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Pearson Education, Mother Jones Magazine, Family Circle Magazine, RCA Records, Forbes, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Magazine, The Boston Globe, Barron’s, CIO Magazine, PC World, The Guardian, Die Weltwoche, and many more.