Lahaina Hallelujah
A cartoonist reflects on his family’s roots in Maui and the devastation of the wildfire.
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R. Kikuo Johnson teaches cartooning at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the author of the graphic novel “No One Else.” In 2023, he became the first person to win a Whiting Award for graphic fiction.
