Aoki, Deb

Deb Aoki is the creator of Mangasplaining and the comic strip Bento Box, which appears in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. She works as a freelance writer, artist, illustrator, and consultant, providing content to Sony, eBay, Google for Education, PayPal, and many others. As a writer, Aoki crafts articles and reviews about manga and independent comics for Publishers Weekly, Anime News Network, Graphic Novels Reporter, Honolulu Advertiser, and Honolulu Weekly. She will be at Miami Book Fair 2022 to moderate a conversation between Helen McCarthy, Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation (Stone Bridge Press), and Alex Dudok de Wit, translator of Miyazaki’s manga classic, Shuna’s Journey (First Second).