<h4>Mariko Tamaki is a writer and comics artist. Her latest work, This One Summer, is a graphic novel co-created with her cousin Jillian Tamaki.</h4>

Mariko Tamaki

<h4 style="color: #989898;">Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Brooklyn, NY.  She grew up in Calgary, Alberta and graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2003.  She currently teaches in the illustration department of the School of Visual Arts. Her two books of personal work are Gilded Lilies (2006) and Indoor Voice (2010). With her cousin, writer <a style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #989898;" title="Summer Reading" href="http://www.marikotamaki.com/">Mariko Tamaki</a>, she co-created of the graphic novel SKIM(2008) and the graphic novel, This One Summer(2014).</h4>

Jillian Tamaki

This One Summer

<h4><a href="http://austinenglishart.com/">Austin English</a> is a cartoonist and artist living in New York. His books include Christina and Charles, The Disgusting Room, The Life Problem, and more.  He runs the small publishing house <a href="http://dominobooks.org/">Domino Books</a>.</h4>

Austin English

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<a href="https://v2.lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/austin-english">Austin English is a cartoonist and artist living in New York. His books include Christina and Charles, The Disgusting Room, The Life Problem, and more. He runs the small publishing house Domino Books.</a>

A Mixed Bag of Summer from Jillian and Mariko Tamaki

<h4>Ivan Kreilkamp is an associate professor in the Department of English at Indiana University, where he is also a co-editor of the journal Victorian Studies. He’s published recently in Public Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New Yorker online.</h4>

Ivan Kreilkamp

Maximal Anxiety

<h4>MariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the award-winning graphic memoir <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Kiss--Tell-MariNaomi?isbn=9780062009234&amp;HCHP=TB_Kiss+&amp;+Tell" target="_blank">Kiss &amp; Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22</a> (Harper Perennial, 2011), the upcoming books Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories and Turning Japanese (2D Cloud), and her self-published zine, Estrus Comics (1998 to 2009). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections, Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, No Straight Lines, Anything That Loves, QU33R, and Action Girl Comics. Her comics and essays have been featured on The Rumpus, The Weeklings, Truth-out, SFBay.CA, The Comics Journal, The Bay Citizen, XOJane, and more.</h4>

MariNaomi

Mimi Pond, Cartoonist Royalty

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

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<h4>Colleen Frakes is a Xeric and Ignatz award winning cartoonist. She lives in Seattle and works in a library.</h4>

Colleen Frakes

Liz Prince Nails It: A Graphic Review of "Alone Forever"

What Kind of Animal Am I?

<h4>Anne Elizabeth Moore is LARB's comics editor, a Fulbright scholar, a UN Press Fellow, the Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of several award-winning books. Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011) received a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for best book from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation in 2012. Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004) made Yes! Magazine‘s list of “Media That Set Us Free” and Reclaim the Media’s 2004 Media and Democracy Summer Reading List. The first Best American Comics made both Entertainment Weekly‘s “Must List” and Publishers Weekly‘s Bestsellers List. Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) made Reclaim the Media’s 2007 Media and Democracy Summer Reading list and was named a Best Book of the Year by Mother Jones. Moore herself was recently called a “general phenom” by theChicago Reader and “one of the sharpest thinkers and cultural critics bouncing around the globe today” by Razorcake.</h4>
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<h4>Moore has worked with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects, and with people of all ages and genders on media and gender justice work in the US. Her journalism focuses on the international garment trade. Moore exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art, and has been the subject of two documentary films. She has lectured around the world on independent media, globalization, and women’s labor issues. Co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches in the Visual Critical Studies and Art History departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</h4>
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<h4>The multi-award-winning author has also written for The Baffler, N+1, Al Jazeera, Good, Snap Judgment, Bitch, the Progressive, The Onion, Feministing, Snap Judgment, The Stranger, In These Times, The Boston Phoenix, and Tin House. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series. She has appeared on CNN, WNUR, WFMU, WBEZ, Voice of America, GritTV with Laura Flanders, Radio Australia, and NPR’s Worldview, and others. Moore mounted a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2011 and in 2012 participated in Artisterium, the Republic of Georgia’s annual art invitational. Her work appeared in the 2008 Whitney Biennale, has been exhibited in the Spinnerei in Leipzig Germany in 2010, and made up one of the first conceptual art exhibitions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2010. Her work has been featured in USA Today, Marie Claire, Phnom Penh Post, Portland Mercury, Bust, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out Chicago, Hyphen Magazine, Truthout, Make/Shift, Bookslut, Today’s Chicago Woman, New York Review of Books, Windy City Times, Print Magazine, and the New York Times, among many more. She has lectured at dozens of universities, libraries, and conferences around the globe.</h4>

Anne Elizabeth Moore

How About Love: Gilbert Hernandez’s "Julio’s Day"

<h4>Anna Holmes is a writer and editor living in New York and the founder of the women's website, Jezebel.com. Her second book, The Book of Jezebel, published on October 22, 2013</h4>

Anna Holmes

A Comics Version of the Life of Margaret Sanger

<h4>David Weigel is a political reporter for Slate.</h4>

David Weigel

At War with GodCorp: On the History of Marvel Comics

Lee Konstantinou is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse (2009) and the literary history Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (2016). With Samuel Cohen, he co-edited The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (2012). He is currently completing a study of Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai.

A Mixed Bag of Summer from Jillian and Mariko Tamaki

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