Before she began to work on her graphic novel in 2007, Thi Bui had never drawn a comic in her life. Now, 10 years later, she'll debut her family's story through an illustrated memoir already being ...

Artist Thi Bui was just 3 years old when she came to the US from Vietnam. She didn’t remember much about her home country. “I had always been looking for a mirror in stories that I was told of my own ...

Thi Bui's graphic novel about her family's exodus from Vietnam begins in New York, where she is giving birth to her son — a tiny, jaundiced mite who has a "faraway face with old man eyes." Over the ...

Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do is a new graphic memoir that immediately invites comparisons to works like Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Like these works, The Best We Could Do ...

CHICO — Author and illustrator Thi Bui is bringing her story to Chico State in April for the 2022-2023 Book in Common talk. Bui, who came to the United States as a Vietnamese refugee, wrote and ...

Cartoonist Thi Bui‘s Eisner Award-nominated graphic memoir is called The Best We Could Do; it’s the story of her family in the years before, during and after the Vietnam War. The Eisners — mainstream ...

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s epic PBS documentary The Vietnam War does a fairly good job of looking at the war through the eyes of Vietnamese on both sides of the conflict. However, the point of view ...