Comics

The Nib

"The Red Earth"
Dispatch in the Color issue of The Nib magazine
Posted online on May 18, 2023

The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories
Short story collection. A new kind of Americana.

Drawn & Quarterly, May 2022.

Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Creative Review
Blogcritics
Winnipeg Free Press
Soapberry Review

New York Public Library's Best New Comics of 2022
NPR's Books we Love 2022

Awards:
Nominated for Ignatz Awards Outstanding Collection 2022
MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence 2022

Comix Experience Graphic Novel Club Book of the Month (July 2022)

Nori
A little girl growing up in suburban Japan in the 1980s goes on many adventures with her grandma.

Drawn & Quarterly, May 2020
French edition from IMHO

Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Ms. Magazine
BuzzFeed
World Literature Today

Awards:
Nominated for Ignatz Awards Outstanding Series & Promising New Talent 2018
MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence - Silver Medal 2018

The New York Times Op-Art

'Are You American?': The Question I Couldn't Answer

The New York Times, Sunday Opinion, September 18, 2022

The New Yorker Daily Shouts

How to Give Compliments: The Sandals-Season Edition (August 2022)

Travel Plans for Travel Bans (January 2022)

I Keep Searching
For the After Midnight anthology by Jennifer Wu
Published December 2014

Big Pages
Stories on one big page.
Size: W30"xH22"

Little Pages
Stories on one little page.
Size: A4 or smaller

Minicomics & Zines
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Carrie - A Leader
A short story about suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt for Votes for Women: The Battle for the 19th Amendment, an anthology of comics edited by Ally Shwed, published by Little Red Bird Press in August 2020.

Insect Hunting (Konchusaishu) is a one-page sci-fi comic in Japanese created for Hon Hon Joki Issue 5, a literary zine published in Tokyo in Fall 2019.

Ganna Walska
My response to The Nib’s take on women’s history month 2019. Four-panel comic about Madame Walska who created Lotusland, one of the best botanical gardens in the world.

How I Deal with Vaginal Tears
A short essay comic about vaginal tears for BuzzFeed Reader.

Katie
A one-page comic about a teenage girl who has a special connection with her high school building. For Cicada November/December 2017 issue.

All In the Family
A short story about a Japanese-American family during WWII written by Greg Leitich Smith in 2017. For the New Frontiers anthology by the Japanese American National Museum & Secret Identities, edited by Jeff Yang & Keith Chow.