“My Birthday” by Nealie Ngo
About the work
This comic features a single mother who gets help from her father in taking care of her daughter. The comic is translated into both simplified and traditional Chinese.
About the artist
Nealie Tan Ngo graduated from Yale in 2018 with a B.A. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health. She is an upcoming fourth-year medical student at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences and is currently on a gap year to pursue a Masters of Public Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. At Columbia, she is curating her own degree to focus on Health Communications and Graphic Medicine. She hopes to specialize in Psychiatry, with specific interests in child and adolescent psychiatry, cultural psychiatry, and college mental health. If you are interested in following her work, please check out her website, Instagram (@artbynealie), and Twitter (@artbynealie). Email her at artbynealie@gmail.com.