Jillian Tamaki

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Jillian Tamaki (born 1980) is a Canadian American illustrator and comics artist known for her work in The New York Times and The New Yorker and for the graphic novels Boundless, as well as Skim and This One Summer written by her cousin Mariko Tamaki.

Early life

Tamaki was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She attended Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School and went on to study Visual Communication Design and graduate from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2003. After graduating art school, she worked at the video game company BioWare and later taught illustration at the New York City School of Visual Arts.

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Career

Gilded Lilies (2006) is Tamaki's first published book and is a collection of Tamaki's drawings and comic strips. The book's first section is devoted to a carefully chosen collection of paintings, personal drawings, illustrations, and comics. The second part of a wordless graphic novel called The Tapemines tells the tale of two children in a strange setting with "forests of cassette tape."

Skim (2008) is Jillian's critically acclaimed graphic novel that was written by her cousin Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by her cousin. It tells the tale of a teenage high school girl and goes into detail on topics including friendship, suicide, sexuality, and identity.

Indoor Voice (2010) has a collection of Tamaki's drawings, illustrations, and comic strips as part of publisher Drawn & Quarterly's Petit Livre collection. The bulk of the book is printed in black and white, but it also includes some color illustrations. Indoor Voices were received with mixed feedback.

"Now and then & when" (2008), a drawing with ink and graphite, was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2011. She portrayed herself as a central, monumental figure on the left, flanked by smaller full length figures of herself from birth to adulthood, from middle age to elderly on the right in a two-panel horizontal. Tamaki's update on the theme of figures in bathing suits, closely related vignettes, and speech balloons is a modern counter to the demure figures and text of artistic precedents.

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's One Summer (2014) is a graphic novel based on Rose and Windy's experiences during a summer holiday. This One Summer won the 2014 Ignatz Award, the 2015 Printz Honor and Caldecott Honor Awards, the 2015 Eisner Award, and the 2014 Governor General's Children's Literature category.

In 2015, Drawn & Quarterly published SuperMutant Magic Academy, a tumakian web comic based on the same name from 2010 to 2014. These comics received an Ignatz Award in 2012 for Outstanding Online Comic.

Drawn & Quarterly published Tamaki's graphic novel Boundless, a collection of short stories, in June 2017. The book has received rave reviews. The book, according to a review in The Atlantic, it is "an exciting and eclectic collection of tales [that] focuses on unexpected subjects' inner lives." Boundless was described as a "picture-perfect" collection and as "a showcase for Tamaki's mercurial style," according to other reviews. Boundless was dubbed one of the year's best graphic novels by NPR and Publishers Weekly.

For Penguin, Tamaki hand-embroidered three book covers. The covers were created for three classic literature books, Emma by Jane Austen, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, and Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. She makes quilts as a hobby in her spare time.

Our Little Kitchen, an illustrated book about how to prepare fresh food for children, was published in September 2020 by Tamaki.

When Mariko Tamaki alone was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Skim, Tamaki became embroiled in the drama. An open letter from Tamaki, a co-nominee, was submitted to the Awards Committee by comics artists such as Lynda Barry, Dan Clowes, and Julie Doucet.

They state in the letter:

This One Summer, a Mariko and Jillian Tamaki book, ranked No. 1 on the list of the top ten most banned and challenged books in the United States in 2016. The key reasons for this book's demise were the LGBT characters, cocaine use and profanity, sexually explicit text, and mature themes.

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