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[[File:SPX 2017 Panel - Eleanor Davis and Jillian Tamaki in Conversation.webm|thumb|[[Eleanor Davis]] and Tamaki in discussion, 2017]]
'''Jillian Tamaki''' (born April 17, 1980) is a Canadian American illustrator and comic artist known for her work in ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in addition to the graphic novels ''Boundless'', as well as ''[[Skim (comics)|Skim]]'', ''[[This One Summer]]'' and ''[[Roaming (graphic novel)|Roaming]]'' written by her cousin [[Mariko Tamaki]].

==Early life==
Tamaki was born in [[Ottawa]], Ontario, and grew up in [[Calgary]], Alberta.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141214120240/http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Jillian-Tamaki-8413.aspx "Authors & Artists: Jillian Tamaki"]. [[Walker Books]]. Archived from [http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Jillian-Tamaki-8413.aspx original] on December 14, 2014.</ref> She attended [[Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School]] and went on to study Visual Communication Design and graduate from the [[Alberta College of Art and Design]] in 2003.<ref>Tamaki, Jillian. [http://jilliantamaki.com/about/ "About"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009085901/http://jilliantamaki.com/about/|date=2018-10-09}}. jilliantamaki.com. Retrieved February 6, 2014.</ref>  After graduating art school, she worked at the video game company [[BioWare]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Randle|first=Chris|date=2015-04-24|title=Jillian Tamaki: 'I need to spend less time in the minds of straight men'|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/24/jillian-tamaki-comics-graphic-novel-supermutant-magic-academy|url-status=live|access-date=2017-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704162236/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/24/jillian-tamaki-comics-graphic-novel-supermutant-magic-academy|archive-date=2017-07-04|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> and later taught illustration at the New York City [[School of Visual Arts]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140705113326/http://www.sva.edu/faculty/jillian-tamaki "Our Faculty: Jillian Tamaki"]. [[School of Visual Arts]]. Archived from the [http://www.sva.edu/faculty/jillian-tamaki original] on February 3, 2014.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141214120240/http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Jillian-Tamaki-8413.aspx "Authors & Artists: Jillian Tamaki"]. [[Walker Books]]. Archived from [http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Jillian-Tamaki-8413.aspx original] on December 14, 2014.</ref>

==Influences and themes==
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Jillian Tamaki photographed in 2017 in [[Montréal]], Québec, Canada at the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore
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Tamaki read [[Archie Comics|Archie]] comics and newspaper strips as a child. She submitted outfit designs into contests for ''[[Betty and Veronica (comic book)|Betty & Veronica]]'' comics. Her parents also had anthologies of other popular comics, including ''[[The Far Side]]'', ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', and ''[[Herman (comic strip)|Herman]]''. In high school she made zines for fun, but she had stopped reading comics after outgrowing Archie. Her interest in alternative and indie comics began while she attended college. Some of her favorite comics during this time include Bipolar by [[Tomer Hanuka]] and [[Asaf Hanuka]], a few [[Drawn & Quarterly]] artists including [[Julie Doucet]], [[Chester Brown]], Seth, [[Michel Rabagliati]], as well as books by [[Will Eisner]]. She began making mini-comics after graduating in 2003, and her very first mini-comic appears in her first book, ''Gilded Lilies'', which was published in 2006. Tamaki often acknowledges her influences as inspirations for beginning her work as they helped her learn the basics of cartooning.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tcj.com/the-jillian-tamaki-interview/|title=The Jillian Tamaki Interview|date=5 July 2011 |archive-date=2014-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214123727/http://www.tcj.com/the-jillian-tamaki-interview/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/mariko-and-jillian-tamaki-on-creating-the-first-gr.html|title=Mariko and Jillian Tamaki on their Multiple Award-Winning 'This One Summer'|date=3 February 2015 |archive-date=2017-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916094859/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/mariko-and-jillian-tamaki-on-creating-the-first-gr.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She also worked on boarding for the popular television show ''[[Adventure Time]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About|url=https://www.jilliantamaki.com/new-page-1|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Jillian Tamaki|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421010439/https://www.jilliantamaki.com/new-page-1|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a self-proclaimed feminist, Tamaki is often questioned about the role this plays in her work. She also grew up in an area of Canada where she was the only mixed-race child in her school. In multiple interviews, Tamaki explains that her identity shapes the lens that she sees through, but she does not make conscious effort to work these themes into her illustrations and designs. She is interested in the female experience and viewing women as whole human beings in an industry that often sexualized women's bodies. Being shaped by feminism and race, her work aims to include diverse characters that readers can better identify with.

==Career==
''Gilded Lilies'' (2006) is Tamaki's first published book and is a collection of Tamaki's illustrations and comic strips.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.conundrumpress.com/backlist/gilded-lilies/|title=Gilded Lilies {{!}} Conundrum Press|website=www.conundrumpress.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-11|archive-date=2017-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629120756/http://www.conundrumpress.com/backlist/gilded-lilies/|url-status=live}}</ref> The first part of the book comprises a carefully selected assemblage of paintings, personal drawings, illustrations and comics. The second part consists of a wordless [[graphic narrative]] titled ''The Tapemines,'' which tells the story of two children in a surreal landscape featuring "forests of [[cassette tape]]".<ref>Kobayashi, ASM. "''Gilded Lilies'': Comics and Drawings". ''Broken Pencil''. 34 (2005): 48.</ref><ref>
Tamaki, Jilian (2006). Blurb. ''Gilded Lilies''. Montreal: Conundrum Press.</ref>

''[[Skim (comics)|Skim]]'' (2008) is a critically acclaimed [[graphic novel]] illustrated by Jillian and written by her cousin [[Mariko Tamaki]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://houseofanansi.com/products/skim|title=Skim|website=House of Anansi Press|language=en|access-date=2017-03-11 | url-status = live | archive-date = 2020-08-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200814203926/https://houseofanansi.com/products/skim }}</ref> It tells the story of a young high-school girl and touches on themes of friendship, suicide, sexuality, and identity.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Spires-t.html|title=Book Review {{!}} 'Skim,' by Mariko Tamaki. Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki|last=Spires|first=Elizabeth|date=2008-11-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-11|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2017-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125101809/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Spires-t.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Indoor Voice'' (2010) collects Tamaki's drawings, illustrations and comic strips and is part of publisher Drawn & Quarterly's Petit Livre series. The majority of the book is printed in black and white, but it also features some colour illustrations.<ref>[http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shopCatalogLong.php?st=art&art=a4b47628ad8d5f "Product by Jillian Tamaki"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619010348/http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shopCatalogLong.php?st=art&art=a4b47628ad8d5f |date=June 19, 2014}}. Drawn & Quarterly. Retrieved February 6, 2014.</ref> ''Indoor Voice'' was released to mixed reviews.<ref>Anglin, Ellie. "Book Review: ''Indoor Voice''." ''Broken Pencil''. 52 (Summer 2011): 53-54.</ref><ref>Phipps, Keith; Robinson Tasha; Murray, Noel, Heller, Jason; Pierce, Leonard; Williams, Christian (August 13, 2010). [http://www.avclub.com/article/august-13-2010-44137 "Books: August 13, 2010"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203203854/http://www.avclub.com/article/august-13-2010-44137 |date=February 3, 2014 }}. ''[[The A.V. Club]]''.</ref><ref>Smith, Kenton (February 10, 2010). [http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/canadian-born-raised-artists-sketches-amuse-entertain-104199709.html "Canadian-born, raised artist's sketches amuse, entertain"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203030332/http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/canadian-born-raised-artists-sketches-amuse-entertain-104199709.html |date=February 3, 2014}}. ''[[Winnipeg Free Press]]''.</ref>

"Now & then & when" (2008), a drawing with ink and graphite, was purchased by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2011. Within a two-panel horizontal, she depicted herself as a central, monumental figure, flanked by smaller full length figures of herself from infancy to adulthood on the left, from middle age to elderly on the right. Tamaki's variation on the theme with figures in bathing suits, related vignettes and speech balloons, presents an updated counterpart to the demure figures and texts of artistic precedents.<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014646225/ "Now & then & when / By Jillian Tamaki 2008"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406141531/https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014646225/ |date=2019-04-06 }}. ''[[Library of Congress]]'': LC-DIG-ppmsca-37417.</ref>

''[[This One Summer]]'' (2014) by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki is a graphic novel that centres on the experiences of close friends Rose and Windy, who are on the cusp of adolescence, during a summer holiday.<ref>Clark, Noelene (October 22, 2013). [http://herocomplex.latimes.com/comics/this-one-summer-mariko-and-jillian-tamaki-bottle-up-adolescence/#/0 "'This One Summer': Mariko and Jillian Tamaki bottle up adolescence."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222120714/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/comics/this-one-summer-mariko-and-jillian-tamaki-bottle-up-adolescence/#/0 |date=February 22, 2014}}. ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref> ''This One Summer'' won a 2014 [[Ignatz Award]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Canva|first1=Michael|title=SPX: SMALL PRESS EXPO: And your 2014 Ignatz Award winners are…|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/09/14/small-press-expo-2014-and-your-spx-ignatz-award-winners-are/|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=15 September 2017|date=September 14, 2014|archive-date=18 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918064554/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/09/14/small-press-expo-2014-and-your-spx-ignatz-award-winners-are/|url-status=live}}</ref> the 2015 [[Michael L. Printz Award|Printz Honor]], the [[Caldecott Medal|Caldecott Honor]],<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/mariko-and-jillian-tamaki-on-creating-the-first-gr.html|title = Mariko and Jillian Tamaki On Their Multiple Award-Winning This One Summer|last = Foxe|first = Steve|date = 3 February 2015|work = Paste Magazine|access-date = 24 August 2015|archive-date = 2 September 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150902104903/http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/mariko-and-jillian-tamaki-on-creating-the-first-gr.html|url-status = live}}</ref> the 2015 [[Eisner Award]],<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/67477-this-one-summer-wins-eisner-for-best-graphic-novel.html|title = 'This One Summer' Wins Eisner for Best Graphic Novel|last = Reid|first = Calvin|date = 11 July 2015|work = Publishers Weekly|access-date = 24 August 2015|archive-date = 23 August 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150823184351/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/67477-this-one-summer-wins-eisner-for-best-graphic-novel.html|url-status = live}}</ref> and the 2014 [[Governor General's Awards]] for Children's Literature — Illustration category.

In 2015, Drawn & Quarterly published ''SuperMutant Magic Academy'', a collection of Tamaki's web comic of the same name from 2010 to 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mutantmagic.com/|title=SuperMutant Magic Academy|last=Tamaki|first=Jillian|access-date=2017-03-11|archive-date=2017-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323222003/http://mutantmagic.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> Previously, these comics won an [[Ignatz Award]] in 2012 for Outstanding Online Comic.<ref name=mutantmagic/>

In June 2017, Drawn & Quarterly published Tamaki's graphic novel ''Boundless'', a collection of short stories.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/boundless |title=''Boundless'' by Jillian Tamaki |language=en |publisher=[[Drawn & Quarterly]] |url-status=live |archive-date=2020-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403213346/https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/boundless }}</ref> The book received rave reviews.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/book-reviews/outside-the-lines-in-an-age-of-anxiety-jillian-tamakis-boundless-draws-transcendence |title=Outside the lines: In an age of anxiety, Jillian Tamaki's ''Boundless'' draws transcendence |date=2017-05-16 |work=National Post |access-date=2018-03-10 |language=en-US |archive-date=2020-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029141309/https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/book-reviews/outside-the-lines-in-an-age-of-anxiety-jillian-tamakis-boundless-draws-transcendence |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/jillian-tamaki-creates-the-ultimate-high-in-this-nsfw-b-1798262395 |title=Jillian Tamaki creates the ultimate high in this NSFW ''Boundless'' exclusive |last=Sava |first=Oliver |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=2018-03-10 |language=en-US |archive-date=2018-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311140645/https://news.avclub.com/jillian-tamaki-creates-the-ultimate-high-in-this-nsfw-b-1798262395 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dissolving-margins/ |title=Dissolving Margins |work=[[Los Angeles Review of Books]] |access-date=2018-03-10 |language=en-US |archive-date=2018-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311140802/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dissolving-margins/#! |url-status=live }}</ref> A review in ''[[The Atlantic]]'' described the book as "an ambitious and eclectic set of tales, [that] focuses on the interior lives of unexpected subjects."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/06/the-cartoonist-who-makes-you-look-twice/529842/ |title=The Ingenious Cartoonist Who Makes You Look Twice |last=Buchanan |first=Rowan Hisayo |author-link=Rowan Hisayo Buchanan |work=[[The Atlantic]] |access-date=2018-03-10 |language=en-US |archive-date=2018-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311140844/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/06/the-cartoonist-who-makes-you-look-twice/529842/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Other reviews called ''Boundless'' a "picture-perfect" collection<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/17/boundless-jillian-tamaki-review-picture-perfect-short-stories-graphic-novel-jenny-bedbug |title=''Boundless'' by Jillian Tamaki review – picture-perfect short stories |last=Cooke |first=Rachel |date=2017-07-17 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en |access-date=2018-03-10 |archive-date=2018-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312022457/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/17/boundless-jillian-tamaki-review-picture-perfect-short-stories-graphic-novel-jenny-bedbug |url-status=live }}</ref> and as "a showcase for Tamaki's mercurial style."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/books/review/summer-reading-new-graphic-novels.html |title=New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate |last=Wolk |first=Douglas |date=2017-05-31 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2018-03-10 |language=en-US |archive-date=2017-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601055519/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/books/review/summer-reading-new-graphic-novels.html |url-status=live }}</ref>  [[NPR]] and [[Publishers Weekly]] named ''Boundless'' as one of the best graphic novels of the year.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2017/#/book/boundless |title=NPR's Book Concierge |work=NPR.org |access-date=2018-03-10 |language=en |archive-date=2018-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912142803/http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2017/#/book/boundless |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2017/comics |title=Best Books 2017 |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=2018-03-10 |archive-date=2017-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027190348/https://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2017/comics |url-status=live }}</ref>

''Roaming'', created with Mariko Tamaki, was shortlisted for the 2024 [[Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.them.us/story/lambda-literary-awards-2024-shortlist-announcement |title=Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |work=[[them.]] |date=2024-03-27 |access-date=2024-04-05 }}</ref> ''Roaming'' won the 2024 [[Eisner Awards|Eisner Award]] for Best Graphic Album, with Tamaki herself winning the 2024 Eisner for Best Penciler/Inker. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/ |title=Eisner Award Winners 2024 |work=[[Roaming (graphic novel)]] |date=2024-07-27 |access-date=2024-07-27 }}</ref>

Tamaki hand-[[embroidery|embroidered]] three book covers for [[Penguin Books USA|Penguin]]. The covers were designed for three classic literature books: ''[[Emma (novel)|Emma]]'' by [[Jane Austen]], ''[[The Secret Garden]]'' by [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]], and ''[[Black Beauty]]'' by [[Anna Sewell]]. In her free time, she also makes quilts as a hobby.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blog.jilliantamaki.com/category/quilts/ |title=Sketchblog » quilts |publisher=Jillian Tamaki |access-date=2018-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025071252/http://blog.jilliantamaki.com/category/quilts/ |archive-date=2018-10-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In September 2020 Tamaki published ''[[Our Little Kitchen]]'', an illustrated book about cooking in a community kitchen.<ref name=cbcBookListFall2020/>

===Controversy===
Tamaki became the center of controversy when Mariko Tamaki alone was nominated for the [[Governor General's Literary Award]] for ''Skim''. The comics community and others circulated an open letter to the Awards Committee that argued for Tamaki as a co-nominee, which was signed by notable comics artists such as [[Lynda Barry]], [[Dan Clowes]], and [[Julie Doucet]].<ref>Tousley, Nancy (November 15, 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20140510110700/http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=11023bb4-85dc-4052-be49-2f7077ec6e15 "Artist left out by awards"]. ''[[Calgary Herald]]''. D1. Archived from [http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=11023bb4-85dc-4052-be49-2f7077ec6e15 original] on May 10, 2014.</ref> They state in the letter: <blockquote>In illustrated novels, the words carry the burden of telling the story, and the illustrations serve as a form of visual reinforcement. But in graphic novels, the words and pictures BOTH tell the story, and there are often sequences (sometimes whole graphic novels) where the images alone convey the narrative. The text of a graphic novel cannot be separated from its illustrations because the words and the pictures together ARE the text. Try to imagine evaluating ''Skim'' if you couldn't see the drawings. Jillian's contribution to the book goes beyond mere illustration: she was as responsible for telling the story as Mariko was.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbr.com/open-letter-to-governor-generals-literary-awards/|title=Open Letter to Governor General's Literary Awards|date=2008-11-12|work=CBR|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-11-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116030150/https://www.cbr.com/open-letter-to-governor-generals-literary-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>''[[This One Summer]]'', created by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, ranked #1 on the list of top ten most banned and challenged books in the US in 2016. The main reasons this book was challenged were for its LGBT characters, drug use and profanity, sexually explicit content, and mature themes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2017|title=State of America's Libraries Report 2017|last=JCARMICHAEL|date=2017-04-02|work=News and Press Center|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en|archive-date=2017-11-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116040224/http://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
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==Bibliography==
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* {{cite book <!--|author=Tamaki, Jillian |author-mask= --> |title=Gilded lilies |location= |publisher=Conundrum Press |year=2006 <!--|isbn=1894994191-->}}
* ''Indoor Voice''. (Drawn & Quarterly, 2010) {{ISBN|978-1770460140}}
* ''Frontier #7: SexCoven''. (Youth In Decline, 2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vaultofculture.com/vault/oncomics/tamakisexcoven|title=On Comics: Jillian Tamaki, "SexCoven," in Frontier #7 (2015)|website=The Vault of Culture|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-16|archive-date=2019-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115222447/https://www.vaultofculture.com/vault/oncomics/tamakisexcoven|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''SuperMutant Magic Academy''. (Drawn & Quarterly, 2015) {{ISBN|1770461981}}
* ''Boundless''. (Drawn & Quarterly, 2017) {{Isbn|9781770462878|}}
*''They Say Blue''. (Abrams, 2018) {{ISBN|9781419728518|}}
* ''Our Little Kitchen''. Groundwood Books, 2020 {{ISBN|9781419746550|}}
* {{cite journal <!--|author=Tamaki, Jillian |author-mask=1--> |date=December 28, 2020 |title=Junban |department=Comics |journal=The New Yorker |volume=96 |issue=42 |pages=52–57 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/28/junban <!--|accessdate=2021-03-19-->}}<ref>Title in the online table of contents is "My grandfather's memories of life before internment".</ref>

===Co-created with Mariko Tamaki===

* ''[[Skim (comics)|Skim]]'' (Groundwood Books, 2008) {{ISBN|978-0-88899-753-1}}
* ''[[This One Summer]]'' (First Second Books; Groundwood Books, 2014) {{ISBN|978-1-59643-774-6}}
* ''Roaming'' (Drawn & Quarterly, 2023) {{ISBN|978-1-77046-433-9}}

===As illustrator===

* ''Gertie's Leap to Greatness'' by Kate Beasley (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016) {{Isbn|9780374302610|}}
* ''My Best Friend'' by Julie Fogliano (Atheneum, 2020) {{Isbn|9781534427228|}}

===As editor===

* ''[[The Best American Comics|The Best American Comics 2019]]'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019) {{Isbn|9780358067283|}}

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| title       = Laura Dean Is Breaking Up with Me and Invisible Kingdom Are Top Winners at 2020 Eisner Awards
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| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20201023205516/https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info
| archive-date = 2020-10-23
| access-date  = 2020-10-29
| url-status  = live
| quote       = The top winners of the evening were Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell's graphic novel Laura Dean Is Breaking Up with Me (Best Publication for Teens, Best Writer, Best Penciller/Inker; published by First Second/Macmillan) and G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward's comic book series Invisible Kingdom (Best New Series, Best Writer, Best Painter; published by Berger Books/Dark Horse).
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| url         = http://www.comic.de/2016/12/die-gewinner-des-rudolph-dirks-award-2016/
| title       = Die Gewinner des Rudolph-Dirks-Award 2016
| work        = [[Comic Das Magazin fur Comic-Kultur]]
| date        = December 3, 2016
| language    = de
| trans-title = The winners of the Rudolph Dirks Award 2016
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190406141541/https://www.comic.de/2016/12/die-gewinner-des-rudolph-dirks-award-2016/
| archive-date = 2019-04-06
| access-date  = 2020-10-29
| url-status  = live      
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| url         = https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/awards-contests/lynd-ward-graphic-novel-prize-introduction
| title       = About the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize
| work        = [[Pennsylvania Center for the Book]]
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20200925004234/https://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/awards-contests/lynd-ward-graphic-novel-prize-introduction     
| archive-date = 2020-09-25
| access-date  = 2020-10-29
| url-status  = live
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<ref name=mutantmagic>
{{cite news     
| url         = http://mutantmagic.com/about
| title       = About SuperMutant Magic Academy, Briefly
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190406141549/http://mutantmagic.com/about
| archive-date = 2019-04-06
| access-date  = 2020-10-29
| url-status  = live
| quote       = SuperMutant Magic Academy is a webcomic that I started in 2010 on a whim. I had been asked to contribute a comic to Marvel's Strange Tales II anthology and, despite having no real knowledge of the superhero genre, had a lot of fun. <!-- What I did read as a kid was a lot of Archie comics and strips like Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, For Better or For Worse (the usual suspects). So I suppose SMMA is kind of a blend of all those things. I think of it as a diary of sorts too. -->
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<ref name=cbcBookListFall2020>
{{cite news
| url         = https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-most-exciting-books-coming-out-in-fall-2020-1.5753872
| title       = The most exciting books coming out in fall 2020
| work        = [[CBC Books]]
| date        = 2020-10-08
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20201028104430/https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-most-exciting-books-coming-out-in-fall-2020-1.5753872
| archive-date = 2020-10-28
| access-date  = 2020-10-29
| url-status  = live
| quote       = Our Little Kitchen is a picture book that features a neighbourhood with colourful characters who come together in the kitchen to share a meal.
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==External links==
{{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}}
*{{official website}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20141214120240/http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Jillian-Tamaki-8413.aspx Author profile at Walker Books]
*[http://www.tcj.com/the-jillian-tamaki-interview/ Interview at ''The Comics Journal''] (July 2011)
*[http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/artStudio.php?artist=a4b47628ad8d5f Tamaki at Drawn & Quarterly Artists]
*[http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jillian-tamaki Feature at ''It's Nice That''] (August 2012)
*[http://mutantmagic.com/ Super Mutant Magic Academy]
* {{isfdb name|133746}}
* {{LCAuth|n2007021525|Jillian Tamaki|5|}}

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