"Gurihiru" should be considered as a team name. Sasaki (Chifuyu Sasaki) is in charge of pencil and ink. Kawano (Naoko Kawano) is in charge as a colorist. They are both female comic artist and character designers living in Japan. ib3y

Although comic & manga creations are centered mainly in the United States, Gurihiru also illustrates character designs for games and animations in Japan.

Among the team's major s is Marvel Worldwide, Inc., having worked on popular American comic book franchises such as Thor, Captain America, and Wolverine.

More recently, Gurihiru has come together with Nickelodeon & Dark Horse Comics to continue the story of Avatar: Smoke and Shadow - and many more to be established in the future.

Before these, Gurihiru also colored Avatar comics for Nickelodeon Magazine and Nickelodeon Comics Club that have since been compiled in Avatar: The Lost Adventures, along with one Free Comic Book Day addition.