Kaori Hamura

Kaori Hamura Long is an artist and illustrator, has many TV and film credits, including MTV's Beavis and Butt-head, MTV Downtown, Daria and Celebrity Death Match, and Spike TV and Nickelodeon's Gary the Rat. She also created MTV's Video Music Award packaging animation and MTV2 Station I.D. She has done numerous magazine illustrations for New York Press, Time Out, Interview magazine, Mademoiselle, RayGun, COSMOgirl! and others. She has also done T-shirt designs for Anna Sui, Patricia Field, and Liquid Sky Records.

Hamura was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1993. Her pilot animation, Bootie Boogie, was aired on Oxygen. Bootie Boogie has won a Silver Award for The Society of Illustrators' Annual Awards 2003 in Los Angeles. She established a creative company, Moss Moon Studio, with Bill Long. She has written and illustrated several children's books. She won the United Nations 75th Anniversary AR Peace Poster Competition in 2021.