In his 2012 graphic novel Such A Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63 (paperback, digital), writer and artist Marcelino Truong recounted what it was like to be a kid in Vietnam in the early days of the Vietnam war. It’s a compelling story that continued in his 2015 graphic novel Saigon Calling: London 1963-75 (paperback, digital), which is now being released in English in the U.S.
In America, most of the movies, novels, and comics about the Vietnam War are told from the perspective of the American soldiers. But in his autobiographical graphic novel Such A Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63 (paperback, digital), writer and artist Marcelino Truong explores what it was like for the local Vietnamese people during the two years when President Kennedy escalated the U.S.’s involvement in the conflict.