2015 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, This One Summer.

2015 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, This One Summer.

2015 Caldecott Honor Book, This One Summer.

2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel, This One Summer.2014 Governor General’s Award for children’s illustration, This One Summer.2012 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic, Supermutant Magic Academy.2009 Doug Wright Award Winner, Best Book, Skim.2008 Best Books of the Year: Publishers Weekly, Quill and Quire, Skim.2008 New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books, Skim.2008 Ignatz Award for Best Graphic Novel, Skim.Jillian Tamaki has created illustrations for The New York Times, Unicef, American Airlines, The Folio Society, Totoro Forest Project, Vintage, The Walrus, Penguin USA, The Atlantic Monthly, The Critereon Collection, The House of Anansi, CIO Europe, Planadvisor Magazine, and The Believer Magazine.They Say Blue, Abrams (USA) and Groundwood Books (Canada), 2018.SuperMutant Magic Academy, Drawn & Quarterly, 2015.This One Summer, First Second Books (USA) and Groundwood Books (Canada), 2014 (co-created with Mariko Tamaki).Skim, Groundwood Books, 2008 (co-created with Mariko Tamaki).

Many of her works have been collaborations between her and her cousin, Mariko Tamaki.

She graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2003. Tamaki currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. In interviews, Tamaki has mentioned feeling isolated in high school due to being ethnically mixed. Her father is Japanese-Canadian and her mother is Egyptian-American. Jillian Tamaki was born in Ottawa, Ontario but grew up in Calgary, Alberta.

Mariko and jillian tamaki