Yumi Sakugawa is a comic book artist and the author ofÂ
I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU and
YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE (Adams Media, Oct. 2014). She is a regular comic contributor to The Rumpus and Wonderhowto.com, and her short comic stories “Mundane Fortunes for the Next Ten Billion Years†and “Seed Bomb†were selected as Notable Comics of 2012 and 2013 respectively by the Best American Comics series editors (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Her comics have also appeared in Bitch, the Best American Non-Required Reading 2014, Folio, Fjords Review, and other publications. A graduate from the fine art program of University of California, Los Angeles, she lives in southern California. Visit her on the web at
www.yumisakugawa.com. 
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This is beautiful, I felt a weird ache in my heart after reading it..
how beautiful, yumi, this is great.
Thanks for reading, everyone! 🙂
-Yumi
I love this so much!
Genious Yumi ♥.
Proof the world is not totally broken. Thank you.
This is so beautiful! I found your comics from the NPR article, and am now devouring them. The “friend love” one was like walking through my own head! I want the first frame of the city in this one on a shirt! It’s magical!
I’m a Japanese expat and not Japanese-American, but there is something about this work that I strongly relate to.
It also reminds me of the Japanese story “Kaguya Hime” (the princess from the moon).
This is amazing. The tone and feeling of this definitely speaks to me as someone who is adopted and growing up feeling like you have to find your own way in the world. Thank you!!!
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