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Comment: Until you start using references which pass WP:42 I very much doubt this will go anywhere. Making multiple submissions in the hope of someone accepting it is a risky approach. It is likely to lead to rejection unless the improvements are substantive (0.9 probability). Please research more and edit less, submitting not at all until you have proven Pham to be notable 🇵🇸🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦🇵🇸 17:16, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Your references are the faculty listing, likley created by Pham, a couple of interviews with Pham, which may be interesting but have no value for verifying notability, and are otherwise about his comic(s) 🇵🇸🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦🇵🇸 14:10, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
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Thien Pham is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator based in Oakland, CA.[1] Pham is best known for his graphic memoir Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam (2023). Pham currently teaches art in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Bishop O’Dowd High School and has taught there since 2002.[2][3]
Born in Vietnam, Pham and his family fled to a refugee camp in Thailand in 1979 and immigrated to the United States in 1984.[4] Pham lived with his family in San Jose, CA, and he made minicomics in the 2000s.[5][6][7]
In 2011, Pham illustrated Level Up, a graphic novel written by Gene Luen Yang. Level Up was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2012.[8] Pham published the graphic novel Sumo in 2012 and the graphic memoir Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam in 2023. In 2024, Family Style was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir.[9]
Pham collaborates with KQED food editor Luke Tsai on "The Midnight Diners," an illustrated restaurant review column. Tsai and Pham's "The Midnight Diners" was nominated for a James Beard Media Award in 2025.[10][11]
Published Works
[edit]- Level Up (2011) with Gene Luen Yang: A graphic novel about video games, family, and a medical student.[12][13]
- Sumo (2012): A graphic novel about a former football player who moves to Japan and trains to become a sumo wrestler.[14][15]
- Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam (2023): A graphic memoir about Pham's experience immigrating to the United States at a young age. Each chapter is named after a significant food in Pham's life.[16][17][18][19][20]
References
[edit]- ^ "Thien Pham | Authors | Macmillan". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ "Thien Pham". bishopodowd.org. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ^ "Graphic Novels with Thien Pham". PBS LearningMedia. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ Yu, Brandon (2023). "Oakland cartoonist's graphic novel details the trauma, hope and food of family's immigrant story". Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ "From potato chips to bánh cuón, Oakland teacher remembers migrating to US through food memories". ABC7 San Francisco. 2025-04-23. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ^ "Writers / Artists: Thien Pham - Poopsheet Foundation". poopsheetfoundation.com. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ "Self-Published Worldwide | Cary Graphic Arts Collection | RIT". www.rit.edu. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ Esposito, Joey (4 April 2012). "2012 Eisner Nominees Announced". IGN.
- ^ Garrity |, Shaenon K. "'Roaming' Wins 2024 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ "The Midnight Diners Archives | KQED Arts". www.kqed.org. 2025-10-03. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ "Introducing the 2025 James Beard Media Award Nominees". www.jamesbeard.org. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ Paul, Pamela (2011-07-13). "The Tiger Mom's Other Child". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ Dong, Lan (2014-10-30), "3. The Model Minority between Medical School and Nintendo: Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham's Level Up", Drawing New Color Lines, Hong Kong University Press, pp. 69–86, doi:10.1515/9789888313242-007, ISBN 978-988-8313-24-2, retrieved 2025-10-29
- ^ "Sumo by Thien Pham". www.publishersweekly.com. 2012. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ Chiu, Monica (2020-11-01). "Graphic panelling and the promotion of transnational affiliations in Thien Pham's Sumo". Studies in Comics. 11 (2): 285–291. doi:10.1386/stic_00030_1. ISSN 2040-3232.
- ^ Beeck |, Nathalie op de. "Spring 2023 Flying Starts: Thien Pham". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ Chazaro, Alan (2023-06-20). "Thien Pham's Graphic Novel Is an Immigration Story Told Through Food". www.kqed.org. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ Mandaville, Alison (2024). "Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham (review)". World Literature Today. 98 (2): 65. doi:10.1353/wlt.2024.a920928.
- ^ Spisak, April (2023). "Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 76 (11): 373. doi:10.1353/bcc.2023.a900367. ISSN 1558-6766 – via Project MUSE.
- ^ Mohan, Amrutha; Chandrasekharan, Nair Anup (2025). "Precarious panels: oceanic spatialities and the gothic in refugee graphic narratives". Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 16 (5): 847–863. doi:10.1080/21504857.2025.2541099. ISSN 2150-4857.