Julia Mata is an illustrator and comic book artist with familial roots in Central America and the Eastern European Jewish Pale of Settlement. Her comics have been commissioned by The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post and she has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. Julia is a 2024 City of Long Beach Professional Artist Fellow, 2023 Individual Artist Fellow with the California Arts Council and a 2022 MacDowell Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Her self-published comics zine series, CRISIS, ran for five years and was sold at zine fairs and punk shows. In 2021, CRISIS was acquired by Drawn & Quarterly for adaptation as a full-length graphic novel.
