Welcome to Planet Holly Publishing!
Holly K. Sparkman
CEO & Founder
Planet Holly was founded by Rock Island resident and community leader, Holly Sparkman in 2024.
As a proud 1991 graduate of Augustana College, Holly Sparkman built a lifelong passion for storytelling and art design. Over nearly three decades, her career has taken her from downtown development, to marketing and communications, to financial institutions, to higher education organizations and creative agencies, where she served as a senior designer.
She retired in 2023 after 17 years as Director of Communications for the Rock Island-Milan School District. With Planet Holly, she combines her love for literature, art, and community to champion original voices in the Quad-Cities and bring distinctive publication to the boarder world.
With her small publishing company, she hopes to uplift local artists and writers and artists to usher a new generation of storytelling.
She also manages the Quad Cities Regional Film Office.
Stephanie L. Tunnell
Lead Artist
Stephanie has been illustrating comics, book covers, graphic novels, portraits, and children’s books for the last 13 years. She went to Black Hawk Community college and went on to graduating from Northern Illinois University in 2013. She has a Bachelors in Fine Arts. Though she usually draws digitally on Clip Studio Paint, she can paint, sketch, and ink physically for more detail. Her favorite project thus far was the Ivy Witch series.
Scott D. Sparkman
Scott is the marketer, editor, and assistant for Planet Holly. You are most likely going to talk him if you contact us for an order or a commission. And, yes, he is the son of Holly Sparkman. Nepotism… it’s a thing, man.