Deb Aoki is the creator of Mangasplaining and the comic strip Bento Box, which appears in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. She works as a freelance writer, artist, illustrator, and consultant, providing content to Sony, eBay, Google for Education, PayPal, and many others. As a writer, Aoki crafts articles and reviews about manga and independent comics for Publishers Weekly, Anime News Network, Graphic Novels Reporter, Honolulu Advertiser, y Honolulu Weekly. She will be at Miami Book Fair 2022 to moderate a conversation between Helen McCarthy, Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation (Stone Bridge Press), and Alex Dudok de Wit, translator of Miyazaki’s manga classic, Shuna’s Journey (First Second).