Kim Lam
Working From Home / May ở Nhà
Fashion writer Emma Do and illustrator Kim Lam talk about the process of assembling Working From Home / May ở Nhà – a book that stitches together oral histories, journalistic accounts, and illustrations to tell the stories of Vietnamese outworkers in Australia who sew for the garment industry from home.
When you read a lot of outworker stories, you only get a certain angle because many of the stories were documented to push for better conditions and laws...but in doing so, it also became 'look at these poor people'. That really does reduce people’s humanity. We wanted to be able to take that back a little and show that outworkers were people with families and that they were doing their best and that there was joy to be found as well.
On the Making of Good Boy
Illustrator and comics artist Kim Lam shares in fascinating detail about the making of Good Boy, her zine about the canine after-life.
The Rainbow Bridge is a popular poem oft-referenced in the pet and vet world... I wanted to reimagine the Rainbow Bridge by bringing focus back onto the experience of the afterlife-traversing pet. And to tell a story that offers a non-waiting, soft-closure, less human-centric end-of-life experience.