His other sister Lynn influenced his offbeat sense of humor. Interest in cartooning and humor started early on, when his older sister, Laura, entertained them by drawing. The 50-year-old Pearl City native is the youngest of three children.
“Local Kine” cards, which Murakami describes as local “Shoebox Greetings,” are “local cards for local people,” produced by Maile Way Products, where Murakami is head artist and writer. But Murakami’s fandom spans as far back as his college days at the University of Hawai‘i, and as recently as children’s books he’s illustrated and comic books he’s produced. Murakami as the artist behind “Generation Gap,” a comic strip chronicling the adventures, misadventures and disconnect between three generations of the fictitious Muramoto family. Murakami, might not ring a bell, comic strips such as “Generation Gap,” “Calabash,” “What’s Up Wasa*Bee?” and the illustrations on “Local Kine” greeting cards might.įor the past 17 years, Hawai‘i Herald readers have come to know Jon J.
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