Set in the author’s home town on the island of Maui, Hawaii, R. Kikuo Johnson’s forthcoming graphic novel, “No One Else,” centers on a young boy, Brandon, and his divorced mother, Charlene. At the ...

Maui cartoonist and illustrator R. Kikuo Johnson received a call from the Whiting Foundation last week out of the blue, and for the whole conversation, he “struggled to speak through my tears.” ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Maui native has become the first graphic novelist to win a Whiting Award. R. Kikuo Johnson, a Brooklyn-based artist, and the winner of this prestigious award has produced ...

This week's cover for The New Yorker is making waves on social media as people react to the magazine's illustration. The image, titled “A Mother’s Work” by R. Kikuo Johnson, gives readers a glimpse ...

“My first job after graduation was as a waiter in a Times Square steak house. It lasted eight years,” R. Kikuo Johnson said, of his cover for this week’s issue, “Commencement.” “Around this time of ...

Kikuo was born in 1981 on the island of Maui. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, he moved to Brooklyn, New York where he currently draws comics and plays the ukulele. His work ...

The graphic novelist R. Kikuo Johnson revisits Milton Murayama’s 1975 book, ‘All I Asking for Is My Body,’ to glimpse a Hawaii of the past. By R. Kikuo Johnson R. Kikuo Johnson is an illustrator, ...

R. Kikuo Johnson's political drawings of George W. Bush's final days in office take a personal look at his presidency that is both sad and comical. This series of drawings was published in the New ...