A couple weeks ago I finished my final comic in a series about Lucy Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem for the Viet Nam Literature Project. Lucy came to the United States in 1975 and eventually became a teacher at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
The previous comics in this series were based on her memoir A DRAGON CHILD: REFLECTIONS OF A DAUGHTER OF ANNAM IN AMERICA. However, Lucy had recently taken her first trip back to Viet Nam since being forced to leave, and my editor wanted to have this last comic to chronicle her experience.
Lucy was also kind enough to provide me with photos from her trip. Finding visual reference can sometimes be the hardest part about drawing strips for the VNLP, so these were especially useful in helping to tell her story.
Each of my comics about Lucy Nguyen can be found at the VNLP website, along with editor Dan Duffy’s comments about the series. I’ve also added the final comic to the “Shorts” section of the COMICS page.
Nice to see the reference you were working off of in action.