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Hi, I’m Katie!
I’m a cartoonist from Alameda, California! I’ve always been passionate about creating, from drawing to music, fashion to fabrication. This has lead to a variety of professional experience in illustration, toy design, logo design and more. I’m currently working on my own graphic novel projects as part of the comic making team, Triple Dream Comics, as well as working as a Staff Artist at the Schulz Studio.
I love talking about comics and sharing my work. If you’re looking for someone to head up a workshop or give a talk, or maybe you’re just looking for a little advice on cartooning, feel free to drop me a message.
Clients include:
♡ Harmonix Music Systems ♡ BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment ♡ Oni Press ♡ Lion Forge ♡
♡ Image Comics ♡ IDW Comics ♡ Tapas Media ♡ Sony Playstation ♡ Girls Make Games ♡ Crystal Dynamics ♡
Comics
Agent Cupcake
Twelve-year-old Miguel Mangayayam has always loved one thing: mystical beasts. So he’s thrilled when he’s hired by the Mystical Beasts Bureau (MBB) to be their first ever human spy where he’ll use his encyclopedic knowledge of hippogriffs, mermaids, dragons, and more to solve the latest cases. Even better? He’s partnered with the supercool unicorn superspy, Agent Cupcake! Together, they’ll go undercover, gather intel, crack codes, and collect clues to solve the MBB’s toughest mysteries.
Join the MBB and solve the case in the candy-colored mystical world of Agent Cupcake, all while learning facts about real life spies and spycraft.
Published by Oni Press in 2025
Praise for Agent Cupcake
“Frenetic energy zings throughout allegorical plotting, which accessibly tackles topics involving workplace mistreatment, corporate corruption, and greed. Confectionery-colored illustrations ensure that spirits are always high, and interactive elements—indicated by a spyglass icon on select pages—encourage readers to join in the protagonists’ codebreaking and puzzle-solving.”— Publishers Weekly
“Relying on solid story crafting and candy-colored yet noncloying visuals, the work pulls all these points together for an intense, riveting read…A spellbinding lesson in spycraft with magical appeal.”— Kirkus Reviews
“A spy graphic novel that has charm, sparkle, and an intrepid unicorn detective.”— Comics Beat
Preview on Bleeding Cool
Preview on Major Spoilers
Preview on Graphic Policy
Preview on The Comic Book Yeti
Featured on Publishers Weekly‘s Fall 2025 Children’s Preview
Publishers Weekly review
Featured on Children’s Book Council’s November Hot Off the Press reading list
Exclusive First Look at Geek Vibes Nation
AIPT Comics exclusive excerpt
Fanbase Press interview
ComicBuzz interview
GirlTalkHQ interview
Watch the Triple Dream Comics team interview with Comix Experience
Who is San Francisco?
Who is San Francisco? is a series of seven poster sized comic pages exploring displacement in San Francisco. It was commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2023 and was displayed along Market street at Muni bus stops.
Featured in the seven designs, you will find:
How Did We Get Here? A brief history of displacement in San Francisco.
What is a Neighborhood? Daniel B. Landry reflects on the history and effects of urban renewal in the Fillmore district.
What is a Home? Jeanette Lazam recounts the history of the International Hotel and the displacement of the Pilipino community.
What is a Park? Features the Godfather of Roller Skating, David Miles, Jr. and his advocacy for roller skating in Golden Gate Park.
What is Work? Cinnamon, Ginger, and Vix discuss “The Lusty Lady” and the workers who unionized and then transformed it into a worker-owned cooperative to fight against their landlord.
What is a Bar? Marke Bieschke co-owner of The Stud speaks to the importance of queer bars as they are slowly disappearing in the City.
What Could SF Be? Ideas from housing advocate Darrell Owens on how to make San Francisco a more livable city for all.
"The third poster series in our 2023 Art on Market Street Poster Series program is a powerful representation of the human stories behind the struggle against displacement in our city. Through their captivating artwork and oral history interviews, Triple Dream Comics vividly depict the experiences of individuals who are fighting for their homes and communities.”
-Ralph Remington, Director of Cultural Affairs.
DEBIAN PERL: DIGITAL DETECTIVE
Megalopolis used to be the city hub for all the makers, doers, and dreamers. It was a better time according to Debian Perl, a technomancer known for her out-of-date computer programming skills. Now the city streets are filled with “Egg-heads,” those in thrall to the ease and simplicity of new technology as opposed to Debian’s way of doing things.
Digits is one of those Egg-heads. She is a young social media guru and knows her way around all the newest, latest technology. Debian and Digits cross paths when they both stumble across a 100-year-old lost robot named Ray-Bot. They soon learn that Ray-Bot’s CPU was suspiciously overclocked, leaving him unable to perform basic functions and commands. To find out where the robot came from, Debian must teach Digits everything she knows about computer coding and programming. Along their journey to bring Ray-Bot home, they begin piecing together the mysterious puzzle about his malfunction and uncover some sinister secrets.
Debian Perl: Digital Detective is a five-book series in which middle-grade readers will join Debian and Digits on mystery adventures all while building practical knowledge of coding, algorithms, algebra, and logical problem-solving.
"Debian Perl will not only teach readers about STEAM-based education, but also about the importance of friendship, loyalty, identity, and, of course, solving the scientific puzzles of the future." –Dr. Katie Monnin, Pop Culture Classroom
Published by Lion Forge in 2019
Comix Experience Graphic Novel of the Month Interview
Preview on The Hollywood Reporter
Academy Art U News interview
Comiccon.com review
Her space opera
An audio-visual experience, Her Space Opera combines the work of musician Accumulator and myself. Included in the physical release is a 12” vinyl as well as a matching sized comic. Each page matches up with a song. Completely wordless, the comic seeks to take you on a journey through space, using music to tell the tale of a spacegirl searching for what was lost to her.
Self-published in 2017
Illustration
POSTER ART
A selection of large illustrations I’ve done, click for more info on each.
COVERS
Comic covers I’ve illustrated. I’d like to do some more! Click for more info.
Character design
Designing fun characters is at the core of my work. It’s one of my favorite parts of the process of making comics. Click for more info on each image.
Trading card art
Working with Harmonix, the creators of popular music games including Rock Band and Dance Central, I created a series of illustrations for their card game Drop Mix. Each card required a different color scheme, but also needed to tie together .
Pet Portraits
Pet portraits are some of my favorite projects. I really enjoy working together with people to capture their fur family. Currently I’m closed for commissions, but I’ll update as soon as that changes.