Join the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center as they chat with cartoonist and author Gwen Muranaka about her book “Drawing by Heart.”

Gwen Muranaka is a fourth generation Japanese American. For the over 20 years, as a senior editor and journalist she has covered numerous events in the Southern California Japanese American community. Throughout her journalism career, Muranaka has drawn cartoons, including “Noodles,” published weekly in the Japan Times in Tokyo and “Small Kid Time” for Pacific Citizen. Currently she illustrates “Dad’s Three Cats” for The Hawaii Herald and The Rafu Shimpo. She is also a writer for San Times.