CAB (Anthology)
“Cabramatta” is an autobiographical interactive and print comic about growing up in a community of Vietnam War refugees resettled in Australia’s heroin capital.
CAB, 2007
CAB is a graphic novel collection of short autobiographical comics drawn from the experiences of a dozen ordinary residents and visitors to the suburban South-Western Sydney migrant community, Cabramatta. Cabramatta's migrant hostel attracted a generation of migrants after the Vietnam War, creating Australia's largest non-Anglo-Celtic commercial district.
‘ABC Supermarket’ and ‘A New Challenger’ appears in Alice Pung’s anthology, 'Growing Up Asian in Australia' (2008) where it is studied as an assigned curriculum text for the Victorian Certificate of Education.
CONTRIBUTORS
David Tang
Tak Tran
Jonathan Verzosa
Bobby Vuong
Kevin Vo
David Wu
Annie Chiv
Yvonne Fang
Sze Lok Ho
Kevin Lai
Glenn Lieu
William Loeng
Haline Ly
This project was funded by the Foundation for Young Australians.
“As always, Matt Huynh continues to surprise and impress with his exploration of new graphic novel material in the Australian context. One of my favourite forms of Australian comics is the regional anthology, but there’s never been been one like this before - one that redefines what’s possible in this form of media.”
Blank Space, Surry Hills 2007
