Hatt is a Korean artist based in Los Angeles, CA.

She grew up a nerdy kid obsessed with shonen manga, anime, and Western cartoons–doodling here and there, but not seriously. At 18, she accidentally wandered into a manga convention in Seoul where fellow nerds gathered to celebrate their hyperfixations. Inspired, she grabbed a dip pen and decided to join the fun.

Drawing 800+ pages of comics for fanzines and her own stories turned out to be a great artistic training. She eventually debuted as an artist in Comic Flapper, a Japanese manga magazine, marking the start of her nine-year career shaping four comic book series as illustrator, writer, or both, for Korean and Japanese comic industry.

And then, all of a sudden, Hatt thought it would be fun to try exploring other forms of visual storytelling. She put an end to her self-taught artist era by entering Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and invested all the savings in school (she highly discourages others from doing this).

Since graduating in 2018, she has been happily working in animation as a background designer, first on Muppet Babies at Oddbot, and now on Big City Greens at Disney TVA.

She loves kimbap, milk tea, shiny new art supplies, and Tareh.

Tareh is Hatt’s outdoor activity supervisor and a suspiciously foxy-looking rescue pup.