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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

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Minneapolis. Cartoon fellow. Author and illustrator of the award-winning OGN, The Magic Fish. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. He/him, They/them Support my work: patreon.com/trungles Links: https://bio.site/trungles

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16d

Book tour!!! I’m coming to a city that may or may not be near you!!! Starting in a few days!!!

Saturday, 10/4 AT 1:45PM
Decatur Library, Young Adult Stage Decatur, GA

Thursday, 10/9
New York Comic Con
New York, NY

Thursday, 10/9 AT 6PM
Brooklyn Heights Library with Books are Magic
Brooklyn, NY

Friday, 10/10
New York Comic Con
New York, NY

Tuesday, 10/14 AT 7PM
Annabelle’s Book Club LA
Studio City, CA

Saturday, 10/18
SLICE
St. Louis, MO

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 9m

See you tonight at Annabelle’s!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 19h

THANK YOU FOR FINDING THE LINK!!! I am so sleepy currently

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 19h

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RSVP is here! *kermit flail of excitement*

Trung Le Nguyen in conversation with Victoria Ying to celebrate Angelica and the Bear Prince

NEW! Shop Our Book Selection Online Ship or Pick Up In Store!

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 6h

Hi, I'm Peter and I draw comics!

I've worked on the Avatar: the Last Airbender comics, written some Dragon Prince graphic novels, and created a few other things too.

✨portfolio: peterwartman.com
✨comics: shipwreckplanet.com

A page from a comic pitch I did, showing a character sitting on a sign built onto a massive metal structure. Airships fly through the rain in front of him. Inset in two panels we can see him looking down at a pilot's pin he's holding in his hand.

A drawing of a space guy holding his helmet and looking at the camera.

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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 45m

Kiki's Delivery Service

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 53m

Thank you so much! I’m so thrilled you enjoyed it!

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sidney 💀🛸 @sidatron.bsky.social · 1h

just finished @trungles.com 's newest book 'angelica and the bear prince'. not just impeccably drawn but also so so so emotionally satisfying (i cried). beautiful, thank you so much for sharing your stories!

(the hardcover is pink 🩷)

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 54m

AHHH thank you so much, Irene!!

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🎴 高 | koh 🎴 @koh.money · 57m

unbelievably excited to dig into @trungles.com's new book 🥹💕 just look at all this delicious paneling work!!!

congratulations on its release, Trung! 🥂✨ you are such an inspiration

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 1h

This rules!!!

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1h

HAHA THE FAMILIAR IS OUT THE BAG

I got to cowrite AGATHA HARKNESS’ official grimoire with Andrea Hannah!

And maybe… a Scarlet Witch and a Sorcerer Supreme make an appearance…

Christopher Helton @dorkland.itch.io · 1h

What?

@weredawgz.blacksky.app!

Take an exclusive peek inside The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness

www.polygon.com

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 8h

Oh my god..... I'm so sad, I feel like this guy only just retired recently, one of the greatest artists ever. The documentation about how he went about designing and illustrating his posters taught me so much. Go read up on it, as an artist you gotta. 😔

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 8h

Just saw on IG that Drew Struzan has died. RIP to the man who painted my childhood.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by Struzan

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16h

It’s very normal to start there, I think. I just am not especially interested until it starts to evolve to suit the artist’s own hand.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17h

It feels so weird because it sort of makes sense fundamentally, but then you can’t really dig much deeper. It’s tough to describe, but this is kind of the feeling.

Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17h

I think so!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17h

It’s apparent! You can kinda see when it happens.

Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17h

Also you’re providing great context! I did not even once get the impression that you’re diminishing my point at all 😆

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17h

To a certain (but maybe lesser) extent, this applies in comics, too. There are definitely visual touch points in big team efforts where a house style helps affect a sense of continuity when artists switch out.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17h

I don’t think you intended to (or it wasn’t your main point), but you made a fully correct observation about my bias—I’m mostly thinking of illustrators who cop a particular animation-bound style. I expect illustrators to have a strong personal voice!

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こま7さい @2buan.bsky.social · 6d

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17h

I mean sure, but I have to imagine they went on to do other things beyond the mouse

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17h

It’s sort of also how I feel about artists doing anything in what they think is a “Ghibli style,” yeah. There’s very little thought put into it, and it’s typically a purely aesthetic exploration motivated by largely uncritical nostalgic feelings.