MariNaomi
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“It Happened To Me” Aftermath
Rumpus cartoonist MariNaomi wrote a powerful essay at XOJane about being sexually harassed during a comic convention panel. “This isn’t the first time this has happened to me. Years ago, at another comic convention, a fellow panelist blatantly looked me…
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New MariNaomi Book Announced!
Hot on the heels of Yumi Sakugawa’s book announcement comes this one from another fabulous Rumpus cartoonist, MariNaomi. Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories, which is due out in spring 2014, will feature comics from MariNaomi’s Rumpus strip Smoke In Your…
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Portrait of an artist in 7 minutes
Rumpus artist MariNaomi has her first published essay over at The Weeklings. She writes an about an honest, raw experience about what creative people will go through for the sake of “exposure”: “The gig was unpaid, but I was promised…
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CONGRATULATIONS, MARINAOMI!
Our own MariNaomi represented at this year’s SPACE Awards. (SPACE stands for the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo.) Smoke in Your Eyes took 2nd place in the Webcomic Category. And her memoir, Kiss and Tell, tied for 1st in the General Category. Congratulations,…
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Drawn Out Stories: Comic Book Art and Artists
This Sunday, October 7th, the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum will be hosting Drawn Out Stories: Comic Book Art and Artists, an event that features Rumpus comics editor Paul Madonna, along with contributors MariNaomi and Chelsea Martin: “Whether used as a…
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Fem-i-nist, adjective
“When anyone claims they aren’t a feminist, I assume they don’t know what they’re talking about.” —MariNaomi Rumpus artist MariNaomi gets all up in the dictionary and tells it like it is:
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The Rumpus Interview with Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is a living legend (and I say this from the point of view of a queerish autobio cartoonist).
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When You’re Young
“When I read this comic by MariNaomi in The Rumpus, I remembered three people who were amazing to me at critical moments.” Sherman Alexie gave love to MariNaomi’s “SMOKE IN YOUR EYES: When You’re Young.” Hooray!
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MariNaomi Reading Tonight
Rumpus artist MariNaomi is headlining the Matcha Sensuality event at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. She’ll read from her graphic memoir Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Resume Ages 0-22 at 7p.m. TONIGHT!
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Surveying The Comic Industry
Part two of The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey–featuring “picks, prognostications and previews” from the comics industry–includes our own cartoonist MariNaomi. The participants responded to questions about the biggest stories in comics as well as guilty pleasures anticipated in this new…