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I’m so into these Miss Moti comics by body-positive artist Kripa Joshi, I can’t stop posting them.

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Lakes Festival Focus: Kripa Joshi, creator of Miss Moti

Lakes Festival Focus: Kripa Joshi, creator of Miss Moti

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. Over 70 are attending in 2018 in October (and that’s not including creators you’ll find in the Comics Clock Tower).

This Festival Focus for 2018 is Kripa Joshi, the creator of Miss Moti, a plump character who blurs the line between fantasy and reality.

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Kripa Joshi, b. Nepal, 1979 Self Portrait UK? (c. 2010s) [Source]

The artist’s website says:

Kripa Joshi is an Illustrator and Comic Artist from Nepal.

She completed her BFA in painting from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India with Indian Council of Cultural Relations Scholarship. After her graduation she worked for a few years as an art teacher in Nepal.

In 2005, she received the Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. During this time she started making comics and developed the character of Miss Moti.

She has self-published her comics and sells them online and at comic conventions. Miss Moti has been a part of various anthologies. She has also been a part of various anthologies, illustrated children’s book and conducted art and comics workshop for children and adults. Her work has also been exhibited in various institutions like London Transport Museum, The Lightbox in Woking and the Comix Creatrix exhibition at the House of Illustration in London.

She currently lives in the UK with her husband and daughter.