Second Saturday Cartoonist: MariNaomi

Meet, watch, and talk to author and illustrator MariNaomi, a Japanese American visual storyteller and community organizer who has been making comics since 1997. MariNaomi is the creator of the SPACE Award-winning graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (2011); the Eisner-nominated Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2014); Turning Japanese (2016, 2023); I Thought YOU Hated ME (2016); the Life on Earth trilogy (2018-2020); Dirty Produce (2021); and I Thought You Loved Me (2023). Their work has appeared in approximately 100 print publications and has been featured on websites such as The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast, San Francisco Examiner, and BuzzFeed.