Joana Mosi is an award-winning visual artist and cartoonist based in Lisbon, Portugal. Born and raised close to the sea, Joana has a really hard time sitting still in one place for a long time (which is a problem when your job requires you to spend lots of time at a drawing table) so she ends up traveling a lot, participating in art residencies and comics festivals across the globe. While she's planning her next artistic endeavour, she stays fresh by teaching (and learning from) new generations of creators.

--Montreal Review of Books

"Mosi's art is loose and dreamlike, eliding details in most scenes and only providing enough information to keep the reader aware of what's happening... This remarkable exploration of malaise is sure to resonate with anyone questioning the slow pace of personal progress."

--Booklist

"[Physical Education] looks into the swirling morass of competing desires that hum in the background of a young writer's life... Laura's life rhythms will be familiar to many creatives... Mosi successfully demonstrates the overlap of creative stagnancy and the difficulty of hustling to make it as a writer."

--Kirkus Reviews

"An elliptical story of contemporary angst... fragmented pages, like dissonant musical phrases, add texture to the story's rhythm. [An] extraordinary artwork."

--The Comics Review

"This is a comic unlike others I've seen before. Mosi isn't afraid to take risks. She continually challenges our expectations on the page... I never knew what to expect when I turned the next page... Mosi excels at using her simple yet bold style to tell a subtle tale of the subtle absurdity of loss."

--Broken Frontier

"In Physical Education the graphic novel is a vehicle for a work of art, rather than a narrative, made up of small everyday details as metaphors for something bigger... It will be understood, above all, by the generations that fit into this contemporary angst"

--Observador

"I really enjoyed the interactions between the characters and the construction of the dialogues--It all seemed very current to me, as if I was watching a series about my generation."

--Rita da Nova

Praise for Joana Mosi's debut graphic novel The Mongoose:

"A poignant portrait of mourning, grief, and recovery."

--Booklist (Starred Review)

"One of the best meditations on grief that I've read in a decade, The Mongoose... is transcendent: sad, funny, smart, meaningful, and with quiet, stunning emotional power."

--The Comics Journal (Best Comics of 2025)

"In the conversation for best of the year... darkly funny... and increasingly tender and sad. Mosi avoids easy answers, or grand epiphanies, and roots the story in the real."

--Comic Book Herald (Best Comics of 2025)