Trung Le Capecchi-Nguyen (Trung Lê Nguyễn, professionally) is an award-winning Vietnamese American cartoonist, artist, and writer from Minnesota. Trung’s first original graphic novel, The Magic Fish, was published in 2020 through Random House Graphic. He has been nominated for an Eisner, a prize at Angoulême (France), a GLAAD award, and has won two Harvey Awards and a Romics (Italy). Trung has also contributed work for DC Comics, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, Image Comics, and Marvel. He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raises a small flock of very spoiled hens.
The 2023 Neustadt Lit Fest / Photo by Parker BuskeAs he introduced and paid tribute to Gene Luen Yang during the NSK Prize ceremony, Trung Lê Nguyễn, who nominated Yang for the award, reflected on the…