Janina is an Aotearoa New Zealand Samoan Graphic Medicine Artist and Illustrator. She creates comics about life with Type 1 Diabetes and has had Type 1 Diabetes for 30 years.

Her comics have been featured in Bernie Sanders political campaign, as well as Brut America, The Mighty. She was on BBC “The Conversation” to talk about her artwork and life with diabetes.

She does graphic design and illustration work for The World Health Organization, and has recently created illustrations and animations for their World Diabetes Day Campaign in 2022 and 2023. 

She loves creating and imagining things that come to life on paper and in the digital world. In her spare time, She loves hanging out with her partner Rick and her puppy McFly, travelling, reading graphic novels and comics and watching K-Dramas.

CURRENT PROJECTS

She has just finished illustrating the children’s book “It Belongs To The World”, about the co-discoverer of insulin, Frederick Banting, written by Lisa Katzenberger, published by Harper Collins and is in all good bookstores now!

If you want to get in touch, you can email her here: hello@missdiabetes.com