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Comics/Koomeke

Introducing Janina Gaudin an Aotearoa New Zealand Samoan Graphic Medicine Artist and Illustrator. She creates comics about life with Type 1 Diabetes and has had Type 1 Diabetes for 30 years. She loves creating and imagining things that come to life on paper and in the digital world. 

CURRENT PROJECTS

She has just finished illustrating the children’s book “It Belongs To The World”, about the co-discoverer of insulin, Frederick Banting, written by Lisa Katzenberger, published by Harper Collins and is in all good bookstores now!

If you want to get in touch, you can email her here: hello@missdiabetes.com or checkout her website Miss Diabetes.

Click on the bubbles below to see some of her mahi.

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Please note: This mahi uses the Waikato dialect convention of double vowels to represent long vowel sounds, in place of macrons. This choice reflects the regional context of the Ngaaruawahia participants who contributed significantly to its content.

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