Peach Momoko

is a pseudonymous Japanese comic book artist and writer. After signing an exclusive deal with Marvel Comics as part of their Stormbreakers program, she was awarded both the Eisner Award and Ringo Award for best cover artist. With Marvel, she launched the "Momoko-verse", a line of comics at Marvel that reimagines the Marvel Universe within the lens of Japanese folktales, and she wrote and illustrated Ultimate X-Men, reimagining the X-Men for the Ultimate Universe, and Sai: Dimensional Rivals.

Biography Personal life Peach Momoko was born in Japan's Saitama Prefecture. As a child, she lived in the cities of Kumagaya and Gyōda. Her father attended photography school and enjoyed painting, and her grandfather was an oil painter.

Momoko attended school for video game design, during which time she realized that she wanted a career making illustrations. In 2009, she used the Peach Momoko pseudonym for an exhibition in Japan, and continued to use the name in the summer of 2010 when she moved to Portland, Oregon.

Momoko returned to Japan around September 2013. , Momoko was living with her husband and art manager, , and their pet dog, Momo.

Career Though claiming that no specific influence inspired her to become an artist, Momoko admits that seeing Atsushi Kaneko's works as a high school student is when she decided to become an illustrator. In April 2014, Momoko participated in her first European gallery exhibition, the multi-artist showcase "1st NSK Folk Art Biennale: NSK: Past - Present – Future // 1984 – 2014 – 2045" organized by Neue Slowenische Kunst in Leipzig, Germany.

After graduating from art school, Momoko was an editor at a pornographic magazine, and she had uncredited illustrations published in the horoscope section of a 2008 issue of the femdom magazine.

In early 2015, Momoko participated in her first Japanese conventions, the manga marketplace Comitia and the art-oriented Artism Market. In October 2015, Momoko had her first exposure to comic conventions when she joined Girls and Corpses’ owner Robert Steven Rhine at Comikaze, where he introduced her to an editor at Heavy Metal.

In August 2016, Momoko participated in Portland's annual Forest for the Trees public art project, creating a mural at Cider Riot (807 NE Couch Street). In 2017, to commemorate Miyavi's 15th year as a solo artist, Momoko was selected to create an official t-shirt design for the musician. In 2018, Momoko collaborated with lifestyle brand HVYBLK on a t-shirt that was available at that year's Anime Expo.

In 2021, Marvel Comics launched Momoko's Demon Days series, creating what the artist referred to as her "Momoko-verse", a setting which reimagined the company's superhero characters within the framework of Japanese folktales. Demon Days was published as a series of five one-shot issues before being collected as a trade paperback in May 2022. In April 2022, a sequel to Demon Days was announced, titled Demon Wars, which adapts Marvel's Civil War storyline within the Momoko-verse framework.

In October 2022, Momoko made her first appearance at New York Comic Con. The line for her free autographs was the longest among all visiting artists, and the high demand for her signature prompted a conflict among retailers who were competing in line before the show's opening on the final day. Momoko was forced to leave her table and cancel signings to alleviate the conflict.

In December 2022, Momoko designed the titular clones of Spider-Gwen Stacy of the then-forthcoming 2023 limited series Spider-Gwen: Shadow Clones.

In April 2023, Momoko created the artwork for the single "Perfect" by Japanese rapper Maria.

In October 2023 at New York Comic Con Marvel revealed that, following the conclusion of Ultimate Invasion and the creation of a brand new Ultimate Universe, the comic Ultimate X-Men would launch in March 2024 written and illustrated by Momoko.

In November 2023, Momoko released the one-shot Star Wars: Visions - Peach Momoko #1, which kicked off a series of comic book releases which carry on the Star Wars: Visions concept. Regarding Star Wars Visions, Momoko told StarWars.com, "I really enjoy thinking about how to tell my own version of Star Wars, while keeping in mind the concepts of the original universe."

In March 2023. Momoko produced a series of Women's History Month variant covers for Marvel's' entire line of Star Wars titles. In March 2025, Momoko created a series of kimono-themed covers for Marvel characters.

In October 2025, it was announced that Momoko's version of Psylocke, called Sai in the Momoko-verse, would receive her own series in 2026, written and illustrated by Momoko and Stan Sakai. The series will run five issues and is titled Sai: Dimensional Rivals in connection with the character's appearance in the Marvel Rivals video game.

Artistic style Aesthetic Her aesthetic has been likened to the bishōjo ("beautiful girl") cultural phenomenon in Japan, though she uses this imagery to "fuse the power of a girl with her inner madness, weaponry, and propaganda".

Momoko prefers to tell stories involving samurai, Japanese folktales, dreamlike situations, and the real-life problems of adolescents. In her early career, she chose to "only illustrate the females in my artwork", noting how the viewer "can not tell by the expressions if they are dead, or if they are alive". Momoko often envisions her work in color but draws in black-and-white, focusing on the balance and contrast between light and shadow.

Inspirations Momoko has stated that her art is primarily inspired by several genres of Japanese cinema, specifically horror, military, and pink films,

Cover work

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