Like authors, many illustrators will have agents who represent them when it comes to their publishing careers.
Some of these agents will represent both authors and illustrators (and, for the latter, will only represent them in all book-related work), while other agents will be illustration-only agents and may represent clients across all their illustration projects, from books to newspapers and more.
Jodie Hodges is an agent at United Agents, and represents people including Sarah Horne, who illustrates Sam Copeland’s Charlie Changes into a Chicken series, and Sav Akyuz, who illustrated I Am Bear by Ben Bailey-Smith and You Can Do Anything by Akala.