Alan Aldridge is a UK artist, born in 1943. During the 1960s and 1970s he was responsible for a great many album covers , and helped create the graphic style of that era.

He is possibly best known, however, for the picture book The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper Feast (1973), a series of illustrations of anthropomorphic insects and other creatures, which he created in collaboration with William Plomer, who wrote the accompanying verses. This was based on William Roscoe's poem of the same name, but was inspired when Aldridge read that John Tenniel had told Lewis Carroll it was impossible to draw a wasp in a wig.

Other works

• The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1969)
• The Ship's Cat (1977), with verses by Richard Adams.
• The Peacock Party(1979) and The Lion's Cavalcade (1980), sequels to The Butterfly Ball, based on anonymous sequels to Roscoe's version, both illustrated in collaboration with Harry Wilcock , and with verses by George E. Ryder and Ted Walker respectively.
• Phantasia: Of Docklands, Rocklands and Dodos (1981), illustrated in collaboration with Harry Wilcock
• The Gnole (1999), with Stephen R. Boyett and Maxine Miller .