Maui cartoonist and illustrator R. Kikuo Johnson is the first graphic novelist to win the Whiting Award, which is given annually to 10 emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama.

Soon after October 7th, Hisham Awartani and two Palestinian friends were shot on the street in Vermont. At home in the West Bank, he contemplates the prospect of Israeli annexation. In an old ...

Entitled "Delayed," the illustration by artist R. Kikuo Johnson shows an Asian woman holding her daughter's hand as they wait on a subway platform. Simple and understated in design, the pair's ...