He’s a 26 year-old writer/illustrator living and working in Pasadena, California, who writes and illustrates for animated films, magazines, and comic books. In several interviews, he has mentioned Jeff Smith and Hayao Miyazaki as big influences on him because they wrote and illustrated great graphic novels.

Says Kibuishi: “It’s my goal in life [to write a graphic novels], too. I have several I want to do. I see everything I do now as training for the moment I decide to take on those massive projects….”