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Molly Murakami (she/her) is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She likes to make work about family, shared histories, and identity.

Molly has worked with Bleacher Report, Candlewick Press, Densho, First Second, IDW, and others. She loves summer and the desert but continues to live in the frozen north, for reasons unknown. Molly enjoys reading all kinds of books, helicopter-parenting her house plants, and has historically been in Brandi Carlile’s top 0.005% of Spotify listeners.

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TBA — Everyone Is White on the Internet, First Second
2025 — TBA, Abrams Books
2024 — The Blue Stars: Mission 1, Candlewick Press

Full CV available here.

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Just saying hi? You can email me at molly [at] mollymurakami [ dot] com. (Please allow a handful of business days for responses to these emails.)

For professional inquiries, including graphic novel availability, book cover illustration, etc., please contact my agent, Charlie Olsen of InkWell Management at charlie@inkwellmanagement.com. (This is the best way to get in touch with me for work.)

Please note: I am indefinitely closed to personal commissions and illustration projects, but appreciate your interest.

All images on this website © Molly Murakami
2024 unless otherwise stated.