Patu

Patu (@patuparia) is a cartoon artist and freelance illustrator based in Berlin. Patu’s works are focused on overlaps of personal and structural matters in every-day life from the perspective of queer and anti-racist empowerment. Patu has self-published comic zines and performed at various international comic and zine festivals since 2010. In 2015, they wrote and drew the non-fiction comic book A Brief History of Feminism, which was translated into five languages, followed by an issue of Homestories Comics by Vina Yun about the Korean diaspora in Vienna in 2017 and the comic book AQUARIUM addressing exclusion in the white-dominated comic industry in 2020. Patu is currently working on a BIPoC zine, a self-publishing platform, and a new comic book.

Works at brut

• NEW ENDINGS (2023, with Stefanie Sourial, Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Hyo Lee, Patu, Janine Jembere, Sunanda Mesquita)