THI BUI

www.thibui.com

Saturday 10/28 evening, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival: Read to Me (live reading with cartoonists from the Comic Art Workshop), Indonesia

At Comics Camp, so happy I found time outside of schlepping coolers and making giant pots of ratatouille to go on two hikes and do my first two light studies on the new iPad. I’m still getting used to the brushes, but it was so nice to try to chase the moving light. We painted independently, then came back to give each other feedback, then painted some more. It was heaven.

Very proud to have worked on this children's book with Bao Phi, who also came to the US as a small child in the shadow of the Vietnam War. It is a love letter to the children we were, the children we have, and the parents who had the impossible job of not just caring for us in a new country, but also explaining to us where we came from. Happy book birthday! #BaoPhi #ThiBui #Capstone #ADifferentPond

Heading to San Diego Comic Con this week! It's my first time! Here's where to find me! #ThiBui #sdcc2017 #abramscomicarts

Repost from @capstone_pub using @RepostRegramApp - We are so excited for the August release of Bao Phi's A DIFFERENT POND -- Illustrated by the brilliant @teabuoy! #kidlit #picturebooks #readyourworld

Drawing landscapes from memory is not accurate but good for building comics muscles

Writing again and it feels so good

First time sketching on an iPad Pro, might as well do it plein air!

Makin' an illustrated timeline with the help of post its. #TheBestWeCouldDo

I spent a few days in Gainesville with Leela Corman, gazing at Spanish moss on oak trees.

Finished a little painting started at the Washougal River yesterday. With @spacedumplins @fareldal and @royalbrandon

From a visit with old friends in Seattle in March. A good night. I need to get back in the habit of drawing while talking.

Excited to be on a spotlight panel with Marcelino Truong at #TCAF this Saturday at the Toronto Reference Library, 2:45pm!

My first time at Abrams' headquarters! In great company with Damian Duffy and John Jennings (and Octavia Butler in spirit).

Repost from @apa.institute - Join us this Thursday 3/28 as we celebrate Thi Bui's debut graphic novel, #TheBestWeCouldDo, an illustrated memoir of a refugee and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family. Bui will be in conversation with Professor Thuy Linh Tu of the NYU Dept. Of Social and Cultural Analysis @sca_nyu @nyuart. bit.ly/2nvIx61

In good company with authors from today's panel at #caamfest2017