{"id":3364,"date":"2011-01-27T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T14:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2011-01-27T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T14:40:16","slug":"gb-tran-vietnamerica-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/01\/27\/gb-tran-vietnamerica-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"~GB TRAN: VIETNAMERICA BOOK LAUNCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>to-nite . . .<br \/>\nGB TRAN&#8217;S NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL &#8211;  <em>VIETNAMERICA<\/em>  &#8211; BOOK LAUNCH &#8211; THURS JAN 27, 2011 \/ 7-9 PM<br \/>\nFREE ADMISSION COURTESY OF RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING &#038; GB TRAN<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moccany.org\/\">MoCCA\/MUSEUM of COMICS and CARTOON ART &#8211; 594 BROADWAY &#8211; SUITE 401, EDGE OF SOHO, NYC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tan_poster3_mail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tan_poster3_mail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tan_poster3_mail\" width=\"550\" height=\"711\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tan_poster3_mail.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tan_poster3_mail-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> come join rising talent GB TRAN and the MoCCA community for a special event &#8211; the launch of GB&#8217;s incredible graphic memoir &#8211; <em>VIETNAMERICA: A Family&#8217;s Journey<\/em> &#8211; a new, full-color hardcover from VILLARD BOOKS . . .  GB will discuss the core of <em>VIETNAMERICA<\/em> the story behind his family&#8217;s survival and escape during the Vietnam  War, their reinvention as refugees in the United States, and his own discovery about how the past we don&#8217;t know can shape and define us. A book signing will follow a Q &#038; A session. <\/p>\n<p>LIBRARY JOURNAL compares <em>VIETNAMERICA<\/em> to ART SPEIGELMAN&#8217;S classic &#8211; <em>MAUS<\/em> &#8211;  calling it a &#8220;kick-in-the-gut graphic novel&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moccany.org\/content\/events\"> read more about GB&#8217;s book &#8211;  here !!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jaffee.Liza_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jaffee.Liza_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jaffee.Liza\" width=\"716\" height=\"373\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jaffee.Liza_.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jaffee.Liza_-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>while you are there &#8211;  make sure to check out the amazing work of: LIZA DONNELLY, DENIS KITCHEN and AL JAFFEE &#8211; currently on display  &#8211; but, heads up &#8211;  coming down JAN 30, 2011 !!<\/p>\n<p>like they say on the MoCCA NEWS RELEASE:<\/p>\n<p>NEVER STOP READING COMICS !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to-nite . . . GB TRAN&#8217;S NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL &#8211; VIETNAMERICA &#8211; BOOK LAUNCH &#8211; THURS JAN 27, 2011 \/ 7-9 PM FREE ADMISSION COURTESY OF RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING &#038; GB TRAN MoCCA\/MUSEUM of COMICS and CARTOON ART &#8211; 594 BROADWAY &#8211; SUITE 401, EDGE OF SOHO, NYC come join rising talent GB TRAN and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}