John Pham is a cartoonist, animator, comic creator, and art director based in

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. Pham was born in Saigon but was raised in the United States. He received a self publishing grant from the

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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

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in 2008. ''Sublife Volume 2'', also published by Fantagraphics, was nominated for an Outstanding Artist, Outstanding Series, and Outstanding Comic at the 2010

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"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' ''

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'' series for

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. 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

's '' OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' and

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's '' Battle Kitty''.

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