Jey Parks

Jey Parks is an American artist who is best known for painting cats as pop culture characters. They illustrated the Ewok Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka for the 2018 reference book Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy, written by Amy Ratcliffe, and are set to contribute artwork to its 2025 updated edition.
==Biography==
Jey Parks is an American artist who contributed to Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy, a reference book that was written by Amy Ratcliffe and highlights female characters in the Star Wars universe with artwork by female and non-binary artists. For the page spread on the Ewok Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka,Hyperspace Stories Annual—Jaxxon 2023 Parks illustrated the character attacking four Imperial stormtroopers with a knife. The book was published on October 30, 2018, though the artist's involvement was announced beforehand via a StarWars.com article on May 30 of the same year.
Parks is a self-described latecomer to the Star Wars fandom who became invested through the sequel trilogy. Known primarily for their paintings of cats as pop culture characters, they were unfamiliar with Kneesaa prior to the project, but they saw the Ewok as within their body of work and researched further. Parks felt that Kneesaa was more than just cute and fuzzy, indicating that they thought the princess was wise and capable of action. Regarding their depiction, the artist expressed that they wanted to show Kneesaa as a fierce and clever Ewok to be reckoned with, which ultimately culminated in an art piece featuring the character fighting Imperials.
In July 2020, Parks stopped their art career to receive treatment for stage 2 Hodgkin lymphoma. The GoFundMe fundraiser for their medical costs included an appeal to fans of their professional artwork and unofficial fan art for Star Wars and other media properties. Parks announced on January 5, 2021, that they had ended 2020 with their cancer in remission. Parks is also set to provide artwork for Women of the Galaxy updated edition, the 2025 reference book Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy: Updated and Expanded, again authored by Ratcliffe.
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===Bibliography===
Year	Title 	Contribution	Notes
2018	Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy 	Illustration	Depiction of Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka attacking stormtroopers
2025	Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy: Updated and Expanded	Artist 	
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*Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy
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*Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy: Updated and Expanded
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Category:Reference work artists