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 draw on her 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 earned an MFA in Visual Narrative at the School of Visual Arts and is available for editorial illustration, comics, and children’s illustration work. 

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 kids. She likes collecting pencils, reading, and walking aimlessly, especially in a city.