‘I’m trying to make a really pleasant garden path for you, a “Trojan horse” for history!’
An interview with Thi Bui
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22003372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vera J Camden (Kent State University, corresponding author), Valentino L Zullo (Cleveland Institute of Art) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 298-315 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2150-4857 • E-ISSN: 2150-4865 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21504857.2021.1920441 |
| OpenAlex | W3166274149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
As 2020 came to a close we sat down with Thi Bui over Zoom to discuss her graphic narrative, The Best We Could Do, her recent collaboration on a children’s book, A Different Pond (co-created with Bao Phi) and the urgency of her works in progress on climate change and immigrant detention and deportation. We discussed our generational responses to the Viet Nam War and her determination to reclaim the history of this American war from the perspective of the Vietnamese people. In an era where information is spread so quickly, often unreliably and indeed overwhelmingly, we recognise how important the slow journalism of comics continues to be
Art · Comics · Computer security · Deportation · Immigration · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Trojan horse · Vietnamese · Visual arts · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |