GB Tran

I'm the child of war refugees, born after my parents fled Vietnam and landed in the United State’s deep south. Through the following decades of migration--South Carolina to Arizona to New York to California--comics were a constant in my life. They’ve entertained, educated, and enriched me longer than I can remember, and I work to explore their unique language of images and words and endless narrative potential.

My cartooning career began with the aid of a Xeric Grant for comic self-publishers and includes the graphic memoir Vietnamerica that reveals the story of my family’s trauma, tragedy, and triumph during the Vietnam War and reinvention in its aftermath as refugees. I live in the Bay Area with my wife and kids, creating comics the former considers too personal and--when they're grown up enough to realize it--the latter will consider too embarrassing.