Meet the author

Kazu Kibuishi.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1978

Kazu Kibuishi: creator of Amulet — the nine-volume middle-grade fantasy graphic novel sequence (2008–2024) that's one of the defining young-reader graphic-novel properties of the last two decades.

Kazu Kibuishi is an American cartoonist born in 1978 in Tokyo, best known as the creator of Amulet, the nine-volume middle-grade fantasy graphic novel series that ran from 2008 to 2024 and became one of the defining young-reader graphic-novel properties of the last twenty years. Amulet blends magical fantasy, sibling stories, family loss and steadily darker stakes across its run, all rendered in Kibuishi's distinctive painterly, cinematic style. He has also edited the Flight comics anthologies and illustrated the 15th-anniversary US Harry Potter covers. Kibuishi's voice is emotionally generous and visually ambitious, Amulet is one of the strongest middle-grade fantasy graphic novel sequences in print.