Akeem S. Roberts is an illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. He currently works at Holler Studios as an associate director, and he freelances for The New Yorker as a cartoonist. His comic debut was in the Regular Show Special with BOOM Studios, and most recently he worked with Hasbro on issue 98 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. In 2021, Akeem participated in “Cartooning While Black,” an art gallery show that discussed racial relations in a playful and charming way, along with other Black New Yorker cartoonists in Manhattan. Also in 2021, Akeem illustrated three middle grade books with author J. Dillard and the Kokila team.