Joana Mosi (1994) is a visual artist, author, and educator. She graduated in Painting (2017) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon and has a Masters in Film (2021), by Lisbon's Film School. She has authored a number of comic books, some of which have won distinctions, including the autobiographical mini series Altemente (ComicHeart, 2016) and Spineless Cactus (2017, Polvo). In 2020, she was included in the international anthology Kus, with the project "Everything's Gonna Be Okay", with whom later she published the solo project "The Apartment" (2022). In 2023, Joana publishes her first comic in french, La Mangouste, with Pow Pow (Montréal). "La Mangouste" was developed during a residence at the Open Workshop, in Denmark.

In the last two years, Joana has focused a large part of her activity on initiatives and projects related to comics, education and literacy. She has collaborated with several institutions, including the National Reading Plan and the international projects ReadON and Comics for Education (KUS). She was the coordinator of the Concept Art course at ETIC, in Lisbon, for three years and is the present Comics teacher at Nextart, also in Lisbon. Since 2020 she has been collaborating with The Animation Workshop in Viborg (Denmark). 

Joana also has also written for Solrad online literary magazine for comics:

• We Didn’t Go Anywhere: Reading Aisha Franz’s WHERE IS AISHA? During a Pandemic
• A Look Back to Young Adult and Coming-of-Age: Growing Up With “Skim” & “Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me”
• “I leave the show in shame” – Depicting the Artist’s Growing Pains Through Comics​

Interviews, Podcasts and other media
Make It Then Tell Everybody - Interview with Dan Berry (2019)​
Podcast: Prestes a Ver (2021)
5 Minutos de Desenho - Conversa com Hugo Passarinho (2021)
​Podcast: Isto Não É um Jogo - Tomb Raider (2021)
​Podcast: Varicela (2021)
Joana Mosi: Lugar do Real (interview regarding Both Sides Now book launch) (2022)
Conceptualizing the Comic - TCAF/World Balloon Academy Talk (2022)

​Domestika: Ser mulher no século XXI por 25 ilustradoras de língua portuguesa
Publico-Ipsilon: Um Espaço Que Se Abriu na BD Portuguesa
​AmadoraBD - Entre Traços: Documentário dos 30 anos do Festival

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Work/ Publications
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2023
La Mangouste
Postal dos Correios

2022
The Apartment 
Over the Rainbow
4 Rooms (and they're ours!)

2021
Pure Stories
My Best Friend Lara

2020
The Processionary
Both Sides Now 
Everything's Gonna Be Okay

2019
O Outro Lado de Z
Na Raíz das Memórias (Illustration) 

2018
Bagels for Breakfast
O Dente do Vicente (Illustration)
Nódoa Negra Anthology

​2017
Nem Todos os Cactos Têm Picos

2016
Altemente #1
Altemente #2
Altemente #3