John Pham is a cartoonist, animator, comic creator, and art director based in
Los Angeles, California
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.
Pham was born in Saigon but was raised in the United States.
He received a self publishing grant from the
Xeric Foundation
The Xeric Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations. The Xeric Fou ...
in 2000 for "Epoxy."
["Xeric Foundation Comic Book Self-Publishing Grants for 2000," http://www.xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/2000.html retrieved June 18, 2011] Pham's comic ''Sublife Volume 1'' was published by
Fantagraphics Books in 2008.
''Sublife Volume 2'', also published by Fantagraphics, was nominated for an Outstanding Artist, Outstanding Series, and Outstanding Comic at the 2010
Ignatz Awards
The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping a ...
["2010 Ignatz Award Recipients , Small Press Expo," http://www.spxpo.com/2010-ignatz-award-recipients retrieved June 18, 2011] ''Deep Space'' and ''St. Ambrose'', excerpts from Pham's ''Sublife'' comic, were anthologized in the 2010 and 2011 editions of ''The Best American Comics''.
He was interviewed in issue 259 of The Comics Journal. He also contributed a story to volume 7 of the acclaimed anthology, Kramers Ergot.
"Living Space", a solo show of Pham's paintings and sculptures was held by
GR2, Los Angeles, in April 2010,
In 2011, Pham worked as a designer on
Ben Jones' ''
The Problem Solverz
''The Problem Solverz'' is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network. Created by Ben Jones, it follows Alfe, Roba, and Horace; a group of detectives in their troubled town, Farboro.
The aforementioned characters we ...
'' series for
Cartoon Network.
That year, he was also a featured international guest (representing the US) at the Angoulême comics festival in France.
Pham has worked as art director for
Cartoon Network's ''
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' and
Netflix Animation
Netflix Animation is an American animation studio and a subsidiary of Netflix. The studio primarily produces and develops animated programs and feature films.
History
When Netflix began to produce original animated content in 2013, all of them ...
's ''
Battle Kitty
''Battle Kitty'' is an interactive computer-animated streaming television series created by Matt Layzell, and developed by Matt and Paul Layzell for Netflix. It is based on Matt Layzell's web comic of Instagram posts known as ''The Adventures ...
''.
References
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Living people
People from Ho Chi Minh City
American comics writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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