About Aila

With a decade of working for publishers like FAKKU!, Seven Seas, Yen Press,
and Black Hook Press Aila’s worked on over eighty books
for print, as well as work with a digital simul-published
manga subscriptions featuring multiple magazines. Print
ready file experience and jacket/book logo creation
through Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, as well as specializing in hand lettering in Clipstudio paint.

In 2019 lettered the Eisner Nominated comic That Miyoko
Asagaya Feeling
by Shinichi Abe. Published by Black
Hook Press.

Lettered 2025’s American Manga Awards Best New Manga nominee, A Witch’s Life in Mongol by Tomato Soup.