Meet the author

Mai K. Nguyen.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Mai K. Nguyen: Vietnamese-American cartoonist behind Anzu and the Realm of Darkness — bright, atmospheric Japanese-mythology fantasy-adventure middle-grade comics for ages 8–12.

Mai K. Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American cartoonist best known for the middle-grade graphic novel Anzu and the Realm of Darkness, a fantasy-adventure comic drawing on Japanese mythology. Nguyen's style is bright, character-driven and atmospheric, in the contemporary middle-grade-graphic-novel register. A reliable contemporary middle-grade graphic-novel author-illustrator for ages 8–12.