Events
July 27-29, 2023
6th Annual Comics Studies Society Conference
MariNaomi will be a keynote speaker. Details TBA
March, 2023
Pegasus Books Shattuck
SF east bay book launch for I Thought You Loved Me
Details TBA
March 10, 2023
9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
AWP
Panel: Comics are the Future: Transformative Storytelling through Sequential Art, with Dr. Charles Johnson, Dr. Jose Alaniz, Megan Kelso, MariNaomi, moderated by Meg Lemke
March 4, 2023
Silver Sprocket
7 pm: I Thought You Loved Me book launch
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”
December 1, 2022
Art in the Panel
Group exhibit. Reception on Dec. 1
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