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Cartoonist MariNaomi joins the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum's Caitlin McGurk for this Art+Feminism virtual conversation.
As a way to highlight underrepresented cartoonists, MariNaomi founded and maintains the Cartoonists of Color, Queer Cartoonists, and Disabled Cartoonists databases. These databases are used by booksellers, librarians, academics, editors, book publishers, event organizers, readers, and more. MariNaomi will discuss this work with Caitlin McGurk, associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Art+Feminism is an international community that strives to close the information gap about gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet. This conversation is held in conjunction with the 2021 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.
Learn more about the Art+Feminism movement.
MariNaomi (she/they) is the award-winning author and illustrator of 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), I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics, 2016), and the Life on Earth trilogy (Graphic Universe, 2018-2020). Her work has appeared in over eighty print publications and has been featured on websites such as The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast, and BuzzFeed.
MariNaomi's comics and paintings have been featured by such institutions as the Smithsonian, the De Young Museum, the Cartoon Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the Japanese American Museum.
In 2011 and 2018, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. She has taught classes for the California College of the Arts Comics MFA program and was a guest editor for PEN Illustrated. She is a cohost of the Ask Bi Grlz podcast with author Myriam Gurba.
MariNaomi lives in Los Angeles with a husband and a menagerie of cats, dogs, and butterfly babies. Read more.
This event is presented by the Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, and University Libraries.
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Art+Feminism: MariNaomi in Conversation
