‘I wanted to bring readers outside of the English experience’: An interview with Harmony Becker

Harmony Becker is a cartoonist and illustrator. She illustrated George Takei’s graphic novel They Called Us Enemy (Top Shelf, 2019), which won an Eisner Award in 2020. Her first solo graphic novel, Himawari House, was published in 2021 by First Second and received the Kirkus Prize in 2022. Becker is also the creator of the comics Love Potion and Anemone and Catharus. According to Top Shelf, she has spent time living in South Korea and Japan. This interview took place by Zoom in July 2022.