Nowk Asil first appeared in the first issue of the 2016 Marvel comic mini-series, Star Wars: Han Solo and was first identified as Nowk in Han Solo 2. Mark Brooks, the artist of the series, revealed in the interview Solo Artist in Star Wars Insider 168 that the character's full name was Nowk Asil. He explained he named her after wife Lisa Kwon, whose name spelled backwards forms Nowk Asil.