Events
March 8-11, 2023
AWP
Panel TBA
February 26, 2023
Skylight Books
7 pm: I Thought You Loved Me book launch
February 10-11, 2023
University of Iowa Mellon Sawyer
“Racial Reckoning Through Comics”
November 5, 2022
Pride on the Page Book Festival
MariNaomi will be a featured guest of Pride on the Page
11:15 am – 12:15 pm panel: “Angst, Bravery, and Compassion: The ABC’s of LGBTQ+ YA Fiction and Graphic Novels” with Abdi Nazemian, Lucy Bledsoe, Molly Knox Ostertag, moderated by Amy Spalding
October 8, 2022
Cartoons Crossroads Columbus (CXC)
MariNaomi will be a featured guest of CXC.
1 pm panel: MariNaomi Spotlight, interviewed by Rachel Miller
7 pm panel: CCAD guest Spotlight, with Trung Le Nguyen and Maia Kobabe
September 4, 2022
1 pm to 2 pm panel: “Just Being is an Act of Protest” with Gaia Weise, Maia Kobabe, and TBA
August 9, 2022
Emily Carr University Vancouver
Visiting cartoonist Q&A
March 17, 2022
The Center for Cartoon Studies
Visiting cartoonist guest lecture
February 28, 2022
Banned Book Panel
CBLDF and NCAL panel on book banning
February 12, 2022
WriteGirl Journalism Workshop
Interview about career trajectory for a teen audience
February 9, 2022
Banned Book Panel
Following a screening of The Never List, director Michelle Mower, screenwriter Ariadne Schaffer, and Betsy Gomez of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund spoke with MariNaomi about her banned book, Losing the Girl.
January 29, 2022
Japanese American National Museum virtual panel discussing Mine’ Okubo’s Citizen 13660
Moderated by Rose Keiko Higa, featuring Kiku Hughes, Yumi Sakugawa, and MariNaomi