R. Kikuo Johnson is a cartoonist and illustrator born on Maui in 1981. His drawings and stories regularly appear in books, advertisements, periodicals, animation, and on the cover of the New Yorker. His illustrations have earned two gold medals from the Society Of Illustrators, and his most recent graphic novella, No One Else, is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Johnson divides his time drawing in Brooklyn, teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design, and playing the ukulele with his family in Hawaii.