Nomi Kane

Nomi Kane (born 1984, California) is an American editorial cartoonist, and toy designer. Kane is best known for work featuring politics, California culture, dogs, and baseball. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Nib, and Mad Magazine.

Early and personal life Kane was interested in art from a young age, an interest encouraged by her family. She earned a film degree from Columbia College Chicago in 2006. Kane earned an M.F.A. from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2011. She currently lives in Berkeley, California.

Kane has type 1 diabetes.

Career Kane attended the Center for Cartoon Studies from 2009-2011, in White River Junction, Vermont. Her thesis project, Sugar Baby, was a memoir mini-comic exploring her childhood living with type 1 diabetes.

In 2010, she was the cartoonist-in-residence at the Cartoon Art Museum. After graduating from CCS, she took a teaching job in the San Francisco Bay Area. As part of that work, Kane was the lead artist on a Peanuts coloring book for adults.

Kane also contributed to the 2019 graphic novel This Is What Democracy Looks Like: A Graphic Guide to Governance and the 2020 graphic novel Guantanamo Voices.

Her art was featured in the Emerging Artist Showcase at the Cartoon Art Museum from October 2021 to April 2022. She had previously participated in the museum's Sketch-A-Thon fundraiser at San Diego Comic-Con in 2018.

By 2018, Kane was working as a Toy Designer and Art Director for San Francisco-based Super 7.

Comic book credits Lies Grown-ups Told Me (2011) - editor "Plan C" in Comics for Choice (2017) - artist Later republished in Mad about the Trump Error (2019, MAD) - writer/artist Guantanamo Voices (2020, Abrams ComicsArt) - artist - artist

Film credits Cartoon College (2012) - Cas