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Nationality
  
American

Area(s)
  
Cartoonist, Colourist


Name
  
Lark Pien

Role
  
Cartoonist

Lark Pien

Notable works
  
Long Tail Kitty,Mr. Elephanter

Awards
  
Friends of Lulu Kim Yale - Best New Talent award, 2004 Harvey Award, 2007

Books
  
Long Tail Kitty: Come Out and Play

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Lark Pien (born c. 1972) is an American cartoonist who has created the minicomics Stories from the Ward, Mr. Boombha, and Long Tail Kitty, the last of which won her the Friends of Lulu Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent in 2004. Her work has also been showcased in the Flight comics anthology.

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Pien earned her Bachelor of Architecture in 1995 from California Polytechnic State University. She began making comics in 1997.

She is based in Oakland, California.

Exhibitions

  • 2015 - MOMENTUM: An Experiment in the Unexpected, "intervention" installation - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
  • 2009 - I Love You a Little gallery show - Studio Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2007/8 - I Am 10 exhibition - Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco
  • 2007 - Small Destructions installation - Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco
  • 2002 - She Draws Comics exhibition - Secession Gallery, Vienna
  • 2001 - 355 Days installation - Atlas(t) at Galería de la Raza, San Francisco
  • Awards

  • 2004 — Friends of Lulu Kim Yale - Best New Talent
  • 2007 — Harvey Award for color work on American Born Chinese (written and drawn by Gene Luen Yang, published by First Second Books)(2006)
  • References

    Lark Pien Wikipedia