Rumi Hara is a cartoonist and illustrator born in Kyoto in 1982. She grew up in Osaka and Atlanta among other places and lived and worked in New York City until recently. She is currently based out of a lovely island in Onomichi, working on a series of Comic-ku (haiku comics) and other new stories.

Rumi is the author of the award-winning books Nori and The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories.

ルミハラ
1982年、京都生まれのコミック作家・イラストレーター。大阪やアトランタで幼少期を過ごし、ニューヨークで活動後、2023年に尾道に移住。著書に Nori、The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Storiesがある。

Say hello:
contact@rumihara.com

Clients include:
The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nib, BuzzFeed, Ogilvy & Mather, Studio Uni, Isetan, Honya B&B

Awards:

Nominated for Ignatz Awards 2022 Outstanding Collection for The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories
MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence - Silver Medal 2022 & 2018
Massachusetts Independent Comic Expo (MICE) Mini-Grant 2020 for Walking with Tammy Tabata
Short Run festival's Dash Grant 2019 for The Peanutbutter Sisters
Nominated for Ignatz Awards 2018: Outstanding Series for Noriand Promising New Talent for Nori and the Rabbits of the Moon
Illustrators 58 - Silver Medal (Society of Illustrators)
Illustrators 56 & 60 (Society of Illustrators)
American Illustration 32 & 33
3x3 Magazine Professional Show No. 12
3x3 Magazine Picture Book Show No. 11

Collections:
Some minicomics are included in the artist's book collection at Brooklyn Museum Library, zine collection at Barnard Zine Library, comic book collection at the Library of Congress, and special collection at the University of Missouri Library, and may be available to public.

Links:
Women Who Draw
Cartoonists of Color

Panels:
SPX 2022 Comics and Fabulism
TCAF 2022 (IM)Migration in Comics
TCAF 2022 Artists Talking to Artists: Experiments in Storytelling
San Diego Comic-Con 2021: Exploring Culture in Kids Comics

Interviews:
Ideas for Good (interview in Japanese) 2024
Comic News Insider with Jimmy Aquino at SPX 2022
Comix Experience Graphic Novel Club 2022
Interview by Rina Ayuyang, 2022
VanCAF Online 2020 Spotlight: Rumi Hara (YouTube)
Gutter Boys: Autoptic 2020 with Rumi Hara (Apple Podcast)
We Need More Diverse Books - Nori
LVL3 Media
Photocircle