"The idea that a person can't relate to something because it's not directly about them is a misunderstanding of who's been reading books this whole time."
Mariko Tamaki is an award-winning Canadian comics creator and writer — known for works like Skim and This One Summer (with her cousin Jillian Tamaki). Her latest novel is Cold, a haunting YA novel about four students who knew too much and said too little. AND Mariko’s also the Co-founder & Editor of Surely Books - a comics imprint of LGBTQIA+ creators. Mariko’s ALSO known for comics like Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Emiko Superstar, and several prose works of fiction and nonfiction. AND since 2016, Mariko’s been writing for Marvel & DC comics - on powerful books like I Am Not Stafire, and Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass. Mariko’s also only the second woman to write Detective Comics - the 1000+ issue flagship DC series about the Dark Knight. If you can’t tell by now, one of us has been a BIG Mariko Tamaki fan for awhile, and after hearing her approach to writing and sharing personal stories, you soon will be too.
This is a replay of an earlier chat from 2022 - we’re airing it in honor of Marikos’ winning of the Eisner Award (among comics most prestigious honors) - for the 2023 graphic novel ROAMING - which she co-created with her cousin Jillian.
BOOK: Roaming: goodreads.com/book/show/62207006-roaming
NEWS: comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/
LEARN ABOUT MARIKO TAMAKI & HER WORK:
* twitter.com/marikotamaki
* instagram.com/marikotamaki
* goodreads.com/author/show/483588.Mariko_Tamaki
* Surely Books: abramsbooks.com/imprints/surely
* This One Summer: goodreads.com/book/show/18465566-this-one-summer
* Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me: goodreads.com/book/show/40864841-laura-dean-keeps-breaking-up-with-me
* Skim: goodreads.com/book/show/2418888.Skim
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MENTIONS
* Heather Gold: heathergold.com/about-heather-gold
* Jillian Tamaki: jilliantamaki.com
* Lauren Tamaki: laurentamaki.com
* Gene Luen Yang: geneyang.com
* BOOK: Stone Fruit (Lee Lai): goodreads.com/en/book/show/55678434
* BOOK: Shadow Life (Hiromi Goto, Ann Xu): goodreads.com/en/book/show/51591596
* Alice Munro: wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro
* Timothy Findley: wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Findley
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