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Gigi Murakami
ImagineFX|November 2024
Shock and terror! Step into the world of the American horror manga artist, where her tastes are on full display
Gigi Murakami

I've always been into drawing, horror, and storytelling - which means it might have been inevitable for me to get into horror manga, comics, movies and content creation.

Being an NYC native means I understand better than most how small apartments can get (although they've gotten even smaller over the years), and growing up poor means I fully understand the luxury of being able to build a creative space that one can escape into. I remember being in college and flipping through copies of ImagineFX at the bookstore, skipping straight to this exact section and getting lost in the studio spaces of my fellow artists. When it came to building my own creative space, I was ready.

JOYFUL SPARKS

My husband Shinji and I moved into our apartment during the pandemic in early 2022. Once I knew we were going to be moving, I gathered my plan of Pinterest boards and Instagram inspiration and got to work.

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