Artist Gigi Murakami On Creating Her Horror Manga ‘Resenter’
Ignaz-nominated manga artist Gigi Murakami loves horror, sci-fi, and all things schlocky films and uses those loves to shape her art, art that aims to “engage the Black female experience in a novel way” (as stated on her website). With her manga like Resenter and illustrations in books like The Sinister Sisters, Murakami aims to create art and stories that center on Black women in ways that horror never has before. She’s expanding the genre and her field one frame at a time.
As she says on her website, “Contextualized by horror and science fiction, while infusing vintage pulp aesthetics and Japanese manga influences— I aim to create a different way of looking into Blackness and the female experience.”
Jazz and Kat from Girl That’s Scary sit down with Murakami to discuss her latest manga, the lasting trauma of Final Destination, and why she loves horror so much.
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