Thien Pham: APAture 2006 Featured Artist in Literary Arts (Photos Courtesy of the artist)

THIEN PHAM is a comic book and visual artist, as well as the founder of Global Hobo, a grassroots enterprise that promotes handmade and hard-to-find comics and also includes a small studio for silkscreening and book-making. Sumo is Thien's long-awaited graphic novel about sumo wrestling, which will be published in summer 2008, after a small print run of 500 handmade, hand-bound editions that will debut at APAture 2006.

Thien and Sumo will appear at APAture's Comix/Zines and Design Expo, Saturday, September 30.