Yumi Sakugawa

  • Air Sign

    Air Sign

    “Sometimes we get bored of being everywhere and nowhere at once…”

  • 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…

  • White Elephant

    White Elephant

    I keep seeing the same scene play itself over and over in my head.

  • Yumi Sakugawa Goodness

    Our resident cartoonist extraordinaire Yumi Sakugawa has some very exciting stuff coming up. 1. She’s the author of our next Letter in the Mail, going out December 4. For more information about Letters in the Mail, click here. 2. She has a…

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    See Yumi Sakugawa about the redemptive features of mind-entering snakes in Saturday’s comic. Speaking of mind-entering, in Sunday’s essay, Mag Gabbert catapults us into the head of a panicked teenage girl who has just discovered that she’s pregnant.  This is very…

  • Saturday Rumpus Comic: Unpeeling

    Saturday Rumpus Comic: Unpeeling

    I placed my nose on your left shoulder and my eyes instantly welled up with tears.

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    No, no, you have to stare at that one spot and kind of unfocus your eyes. Lean in a little closer and…there. Do you see it? It’s the weekend Rumpus roundup. On Saturday, Yumi Sakugawa gave us shivers with her…

  • Saturday Rumpus Comic: White Noise

    Saturday Rumpus Comic: White Noise

    I can’t understand anything you are saying.

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    Snap out of it! It was only a fever dream! We are all okay. We could be better, but we’re all okay. Here’s what you missed while you were unconscious: Yumi Sakugawa’s Saturday comic follows a phantasmic entity large enough…

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    Christ…brace yourself for an emotionally crippling time with these weekend features. (The pain is worth it! It always is!) In Saturday’s feature, the tragic end to an interplanetary love story shivers with loss—one of Yumi Sakugawa’s best comics yet. Sunday’s…

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    Monday already?  We understand your pain; why don’t you gulp down the rest of your morning cup of Soylent and secure ample room in your gullet for these weekend Rumpus features: Once again, Yumi Sakugawa showcases her mastery of capturing existential…

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    There are no holiday weekends in August, but there are weekend Rumpus roundups. If you feel like you need a hundred-year-nap, you might relate to Saturday’s comic by Yumi Sakugawa. And on Sunday, Rob Roberge wrestled with the way fiction…