The L Space Gallery is now open for the fall semester! Humber Galleries is excited to announce The Boat, an interactive graphic novel of the acclaimed short story by Nam Le.

This immersive presentation of the visual graphic novel, The Boat by Nam Le, tells the story of 16-year-old Mai, whose parents make the decision to send her alone on a boat after the fall of Saigon. The epic and tragic story resonates with the foundational narrative of the Australian-Vietnamese diaspora including that of author Nam Le’s own family. Similarly, New York based Australian illustrator Matt Huynh’s parents left Vietnam for Australia in the years following the fall of Saigon.

Matt Huynh said, “The Boat is the most urgent and immediate comic I've ever made - a work of a kind I've never quite seen before and a unique chance to engage an issue so entangled with my own life. It's a work that deals not in metaphor or analogy, not exclusively fiction or history and impossible to segment artist from subject. This resulting work is proof of my life, luck, of a country's compassion for people in the most vulnerable of circumstances over 40 years ago and our urgent, unavoidable connection to today's asylum seekers and refugees.”

Visit here for more info.

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L Space Gallery
Lakeshore Campus, Room L1002
Open weekdays 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

The Boat
An interactive graphic novel of the acclaimed short story by Nam Le
Based on the story by Nam Le
Adapted and illustrated by Matt Huynh
Developed and produced by SBS Australia