Lark Pien
Lark Pien 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.
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.Picture Books
Pien was the colorist for the following books:
- American Born Chinese
- Boxers & Saints
- Sunny Side Up
- Dragon Hoops
Anthologies
- "The Story of Binny" Flight Volume 4
- "Game Daze" The Girls Guide to Guys' Stuff
- "Paragon" Scheherazade
- "Timshel" Blood Orange #4
- "Demoniac Pacheco" Orchid
Minicomics
- You Are, I Am - Magic
- Small Destructions
- Brave Mr. Elephanter
- Blomp!
- Long Tail Kitty - Graveyard Shift
- Long Tail Kitty - Full Moon Night
- Eat With Me, Long Tail Kitty cookbook
- Long Tail Kitty - Outer Space!
- Long Tail Kitty - XOXO
- Long Tail Kitty - Heaven
- Mr. Boombha Goes for a Walk
- Stories from the Ward, vols 1-4
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 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
