
Arantza Pena Popo is an Ignatz Award Nominated Colombian-born and Atlanta-based artist who explores slice-of-life narratives through her comic artwork. You can find her playing bass in the dark, listening to too much Mitski, and enthusiastically ranting about Damien Hirst.
She began contributing gags to The New Yorker in August 2020.
She also draws a biweekly comic column called "California Dreamin'" for The Daily Trojan Newspaper.
CLIENTS
Them.us
Cartoon Network
The New Yorker
Refinery 29
PUBLICATIONS
The New Yorker
Polyester Zine
Shortbox Comics
The Daily Trojan
The Stranger
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Ignatz Award Nomination for Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Mini-Comic 2021
National Winner of the Doodle for Google Contest 2019
Scholastic Art Awards Gold Medal: Comic Art 2017
EXHIBITIONS
"The World is Looking for You" Solo Exhibition at Junior High Los Angeles (Feb 2022)
Riso Weekend at Junior High 2021
ANTHOLOGIES
Do You Think About Me? by Diet Cig
PRESS/MEDIA APPEARANCES
Solrad Comics (2020)
Roski Mag (2020)
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (2019)
The Today Show (August 2019)
Univision (August 2019)
Telemundo (August 2019)
