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Kiku
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I'm Kiku Hughes (she/her), a mixed-race Yonsei (4th generation Japanese American) cartoonist from Seattle. I'm the creator of APALA honor title and Eisner award nominated comic "Displacement."
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Hi I'm Kiku Hughes, a comics artist and organizer in Seattle.

🎏 Website: kikuhughes.com
🎏 Read my comics: kikuhughes.com/short-comics
🎏 Support on ko-fi: ko-fi.com/kikuhughes

✊ Check out groups I organize with at tsuruforsolidarity.org and laresistencianw.org
Whenever i see the glowing blue eyes of the creatures that moved into grocery store parking lots
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Reposted by Kiku
extra shots of the andor riso too meruz.bigcartel.com/product/ando...
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Reading Remains of the Day finally and ive decided im going to read Ishiguro's entire body of work in 2026. Ive already read Never Let Me Go and the Buried Giant, what should i go for after?
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Friends have put together a raffle in support of Mona and her family, who escaped Gaza and are trying to survive as refugees in Egypt. Check out these amazing items!

To donate and submit tickets for raffle: tinyurl.com/raffle-for-mona
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
someday. i will snap out of it and have fun again. just wait for me.
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
it's late and im blue, posting old riddler/penguin content with only minimal shame. pastiches.
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
my lil guys
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So sad to hear about Ken's passing, his were some of the first books about JA incarceration I read as a kid. Glad he's being honored in many places <3
R.I.P. Ken Mochizuki, whose BASEBALL SAVED US (illus Dom Lee, @leeandlow.bsky.social ) and THOSE WHO HELPED US: ASSISTING JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING THE WAR (illus @kikuhughes.bsky.social , Chin Music Press) shed light on experiences of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII.
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“Ken’s books bravely told stories that needed to be told”: Japanese American author, actor, and social activist Ken Mochizuki remembered following his death on September 20. See our tribute: buff.ly/i8mDGQv
September 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
still avoiding social media bc it's actually doing wonders for my brain, but my last day at my day job is next week and it's exciting but also terrifying so
September 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
got my antidepress dosage upped so. horray. :|
September 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
lost my keys for a panicky hour bc they fell out when i went outside to cry briefly
September 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
made it to 4pm in the work day before having a complete mental breakdown
September 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Saw an APIAH bus today and i gotta say. Not a fan.
September 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
His campaign history is full of nothing but losers. Are we supposed to be impressed that he led campaigns for Kerry and Edwards?
trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism
September 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
For the first time in my life I had a dream where i was making art and it looked rly good. I hope it's prophecy
September 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
making myself sick on a monday afternoon
September 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
i truly think it's a good time to get out of the country now
September 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
does it ever occur to the democrats in power that if they were not so spineless and toothless and would actually do something about the proliferation of hate speech and encouragement of stochastic violence from mainstream republicans, people would not even need to express relief over a death
September 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@pamwishbow.bsky.social Hi! Will you have any curse-breakers at the punk rock flea market this weekend?
September 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
covid quarantine fomo is killing me
September 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It's been a fucked up week
September 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Mutliple gunshots and cops here telling everyone to stay inside!! America!!
September 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Doodled a sparrow while in quarantine. Images show four steps in the process of painting a sparrow.
September 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Dont remember drawing this
September 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Tested + for covid (no symptoms yet) so have to miss out on an organizing training weekend and i was already down so. Idk.
September 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM