David Hyde Costello is the author and illustrator of the children's books Here They Come, I Can Help, and Little Pig Joins the Band. He is the illustrator of A Crow of His Own by Megan Dowd Lambert. With a background in theater as well as visual arts, David has painted scenery for plays and motion pictures including
Amistad (1997),
Spider-Man (2002),
The Fighter (2010), and
The Heat (2013) (he painted the "Jesus-sports-themed paintings" seen in the film).