R Kikuo Johnson

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-03-31

R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Upstairs, Downstairs” A tale of two schlepps.

“Americans Don’t Care As Much About Work. And it isn’t Just Gen Z.” Cover illustration for
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Thank you AD !

My cover to Poison Ivy #22 (May 2024). Always a joy to revisit the comic books of my youth.
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Poison Ivy was introduced as a foe for Batman in 1966. With a poisonous kiss and supernatural control over plants, she represented the two deepest fears of the 8-year-old male readership: girls and vegetables.
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Over the years, the character was reinvented as an ecoterrorist, and the target audience has aged and diversified.
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Huge thank you to editors Eddy Choi and Arianna Turturro for working on this with me. Also thank you to president who cemented my love of comics as a 10-year old.
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Poison Ivy was originally created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino.
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