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.
Pien earned her Bachelor of Architecture in 1995 from California Polytechnic State University. She began making comics in 1997.

Picture books

  • Long Tail Kitty
  • Long Tail Kitty, Come Out and Play
  • ''Mr. Elephanter''

    Work as Colorist

Pien is the colorist for the following books:
  • American Born Chinese
  • Boxers & Saints
  • Sunny Side Up
  • Dragon Hoops
  • Swing It, Sunny
  • Sunny Rolls the Dice
  • Sunny Makes a Splash
  • Turtle in Paradise
  • Stargazing
  • Diana: Princess of the Amazons
  • ''Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Adventures and Team Avatar Tales Library Edition''

    Anthologies

  • Hello Kitty, Hello 40: a 40th Anniversary Tribute
  • Mameshiba: We Could Be Heroes graphic novel
  • Comics Squad #3: Detention!
  • "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

  • Immortal Chicken: Change
  • Immortal Chicken: Practice, Practice
  • Immortal Chicken: Relax, Relax
  • You Are, I Am - Magic
  • Small Destructions
  • Brave Mr. Elephanter
  • Blomp!
  • Long Tail Kitty - Graveyard Shift
  • Accidental
  • 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

    Magazines

  • #4
  • Nickelodeon Magazine
  • Vision Quest comics gazette

    Murals

  • in Minneapolis, MN
  • Ronald McDonald House in Palo Alto, CA

    Web

  • Long Tail Kitty on
  • Immortal Chicken on

    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 Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent
  • 2007 — Harvey Award for color work on American Born Chinese
  • 2021 — Recipient of microgrant