Author Biography

Patrick Samnang Mey is an author, illustrator, and teacher. He is the creator of Captain Cambodia, a political comic originally published in Cambodia and discussed in Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Captain Cambodia is also included in the educational recommendations of the Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas at the University of Washington.

Publications

2012 — Eugénie, self-published graphic novel, Phnom Penh

2014 — Captain Cambodia, published in LIFT magazine, the Khmer-language weekly supplement of the Phnom Penh Post

2022 — Captain Cambodia discussed in Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics (Art L. Lent, John A. Weeks, Wendy Siuyi Wong and Benjamin Wai-ming Ng, Palgrave Macmillan)

Talks

2025 — Tokyo BD Festival, Tokyo
History Through Comics: Much More Than a Simple Educational Tool?
Panel with Dominique Bertail, J.-C. Caurette, Nicolas Grabner, Patrick Samnang Mey, J.-D. Morvan, Olivier Ruaud and Teresa Valero.

Exhibitions

2012 — Metahouse, German Cultural Center, Phnom Penh
Exhibition of India ink and dip-pen original pages accompanying the publication of the graphic novel Eugénie.

2022 — Cases Départ, French Institute of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

2025 — Tokyo BD Festival, Tokyo
Exhibition of original pages from Captain Cambodia.