MARIANA TAPIA

Mariana is a self-taught artist making non-fiction comics and personal visual narratives. Before working full-time as a comic book artist, she worked as a Public Policy consultant in Mexico City.

Her stories are crafted from her previous experience in politics, as a woman, and as an immigrant. She uses both, analog and digital techniques to turn her research and creative writing into simple animations and visual narratives. 

She is currently an MFA visual Narrative student at the School of Visual Arts, and she is available for work on editorial illustration, comics, and children’s illustrations. 

She was granted the SVA Alumni Scholarship for her thesis work, “Recreational”, a collection of graphic essays about the use of recreational cannabis in Mexico and the United States, and was nominated for the AICAD Fellows Program in 2023. 

She was born and raised in Mexico and lives in Chicago with her husband and son, where she is working on a longer version of her thesis project. She likes to collect pencils, read, and walk aimlessly, especially in a city.