Rumi Hara
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Prints are available on Geo Galleries (US) & Photocircle (EU).


Hi! I'm a cartoonist and illustrator currently living in Osaka, Japan. I love telling stories and playing with ink and watercolors. I also like to hike and bike and swim in the wild.

My Ignatz-nominated minicomics series Nori became my first book (Drawn & Quarterly, 2020). My second book is a short story collection called The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories (Drawn & Quarterly, May 2022).

I teach comics and illustration at Bergen Community College and School of Visual Arts - Continuing Education. 
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Say hello:

contact@rumihara.com

Also on: 
Instagram

Clients:
The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nib, BuzzFeed, Ogilvy & Mather, Studio Uni, Isetan, Honya B&B​, and more

Awards:
  • Nominated for Ignatz Awards 2022 Outstanding Collection for The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories
  • MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence - Silver Medal 2022 & 2018
  • Massachusetts Independent Comic Expo (MICE) Mini-Grant 2020 for Walking with Tammy Tabata
  • Short Run festival's Dash Grant 2019 for The Peanutbutter Sisters
  • Nominated for Ignatz Awards 2018: Outstanding Series for Nori and Promising New Talent for Nori and the Rabbits of the Moon
  • Illustrators 58 - Silver Medal (Society of Illustrators)
  • Illustrators 56 & 60 (Society of Illustrators)
  • American Illustration 32 & 33
  • 3x3 Magazine Professional Show No. 12
  • 3x3 Magazine Picture Book Show No. 11

Collections:
Some minicomics are included in the artist's book collection at Brooklyn Museum Library, zine collection at Barnard Zine Library, comic book collection at the Library of Congress, and special collection at the University of Missouri Library, and may be available to public. 
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​Links:
​Women Who Draw
Cartoonists of Color

Panels: 
SPX 2022 Comics and Fabulism
​TCAF 2022 (IM)Migration in Comics
TCAF 2022 Artists Talking to Artists: Experiments in Storytelling
San Diego Comic-Con 2021: Exploring Culture in Kids Comics

​Interviews:
Comic News Insider with Jimmy Aquino at SPX 2022
Comix Experience Graphic Novel Club 2022
Interview by Rina Ayuyang, 2022
VanCAF Online 2020 Spotlight: Rumi Hara (YouTube)
Gutter Boys: Autoptic 2020 with Rumi Hara (Apple Podcast)
We Need More Diverse Books - Nori​
LVL3 Media

​Photocircle



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