Peach Momoko is a comic artist and writer who brings her Japanese culture to American comic books. A popular cover artist, she produces bishōjo (beautiful girl) style art that infuses it with feminine power, and tells stories that embrace Japanese folktales. She is an Eisner and Ringo Award winning cover artist who has illustrated hundreds of covers, and she started the “Momoko-verse” at Marvel that reimagines the publisher’s universe within Japanese legends.

Momoko was born in Kumagaya in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan. She decided to pursue a career in art while she was attending video game design school, and participated in her first art exhibition in 2009. That exhibit brought her to the US, and a year later, she and her husband worked on a painting mural for the Peoples Art of Portland Gallery.

Her first published comic art was in Girls and Corpses magazine (Winter 2013), which led to writing and illustrating short comic stories at Heavy Metal magazine. Momoko participated in Portland’s Forest for the Trees art project, worked with lifestyle brand HVYBLK to design a shirt that was sold at Anime Expo, and designed shirts for the Japanese TV series Moonlight Mask and Red Baron. In 2018, her art was featured in several fine art gallery exhibitions and conventions including C2E2, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con.

Artist Adi Granov introduced Momoko to Marvel bigwigs, leading to her first variant cover with the publisher on Marvel Rising #1 (May 2019). She drew 11 cards for the Upper Deck Flair Marvel trading card series and then drew the entire 90-card set for the Upper Deck Marvel Anime trading card series in 2020. That same year, she signed an exclusive deal with Marvel as a part of their Marvel’s Stormbreaker’s group of up and coming creators.

Momoko’s Demon Days series of five one-shots began in 2021, which started the Momoko-verse by putting Marvel superheroes inside Japanese folktales. The title reimagined Wolverine as a dog named Logan, Hulk as an Oni (supernatural creature), and Venom as a serpent. The sequel, Demon Wars, reimagined Marvel’s Civil War event as a supernatural war starring Iron Samurai and Shield of Justice.

She designed the Spider-Gwen Stacy clones for Spider-Gwen: Shadow Clones and Momoko brought her style to Star Wars in the Star Wars: Visions – Peach Momoko one-shot. Starting in 2024, she wrote and illustrated Ultimate X-Men starring Armor, Nico Minoru, and Maystorm, Natsu Tsukishima/Cyclops, and Shinobu Kageyama. In 2023, she illustrated Women’s History Month variant covers for Marvel’s Star Wars line and two years later she created kimono-themed covers featuring Marvel characters.

Momoko’s version of Psylocke, known as Sai, just starred in her own series, Sai: Dimensional Rivals, written and drawn by Momoko and Stan Sakai.

Her very large body of cover art has appeared on Marvel titles like Amazing Fantasy, Avengers, Black Panther, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, Silk, Silver Surfer, Spider-Woman, and Star Wars. Outside of Marvel she has illustrated covers for Batman: Black and White, Bitter Root: The Next Movement, Locke & Key, and Space Usagi, among others.