This is a newsletter announcing MariNaomi's events and publications. MariNaomi is the award-winning creator of the graphic memoirs Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), Turning Japanese (2dcloud, 2016), and I Thought You Hated Me (Retrofit Comics, 2016). Her work has appeared in over sixty anthologies, including I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections, Cheers To Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, No Straight Lines, QU33R and Action Girl Comics. Her comics and essays have been featured on TheRumpus.net, The Weeklings, LA Review of Books, The Comics Journal, Truth-out, Midnight Breakfast, Buzzfeed, XOJane and more. MariNaomi's artwork has been featured in such venues as the De Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco's Asian American Museum, and the Japanese American Museums in Los Angeles and San Jose. In 2011, Mari toured with the literary road show, Sister Spit. She is the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color and LGBTQ Cartoonists databases, a guest editor at PEN Illustrated, and occasional teacher. Visit her website at marinaomi.com. |