Mariko Tamaki

Born 1975

From Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Nationality: Canada · Writes fiction

Canadian writer and artist

Quotes

“Books don’t have a nutritional value. Which is to say, we don’t just read “good” books because they’re good for us. We read to expand our horizons, to understand and connect with something outside ourselves, good and bad.”
On reading books that might be deemed inappropriate in “We Read To Challenge Our
“Comics allow you to really subtly do those different perspectives without necessarily telling you explicitly what anyone is thinking, just what they’re saying or what they’re doing, which is incredibly valuable I think in storytelling.”
On comic storytelling in "In Conversation with Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki" i
“Definitely if I am writing something that feels completely straight, I’ll sew some queerness in there, because queerness is always there. It’s like when you’re writing a cityscape, you need to write in the characters that would be there.”
On usually including queer characters in “Interview: Mariko Tamaki” in Geeks Out

Books by Mariko Tamaki in the order they were published, from Emiko Superstar (2008) to Batman : Detective Comics Vol. 1 (2023).