Juliana Loiola de Paula, also known as Ju Loyola, (born 1979) is a Brazilian cartoonist and illustrator. She is one of Brazil's first deaf female comic creators. Ju Loyola gained international recognition for her work on "silent manga", a manga genre where the lack of dialogue allows the work to be understood regardless of the reader's native language or level of literacy.[1][2] Since 2015, she has been participating in the Silent Manga Audition, an international competition of the silent comic format.[3][4]