Lisa Lim
Lisa Lim is a comic storyteller born and raised in Queens, New York. Her work has been featured in Guernica, PANK, The Rumpus, PEN America, and Mutha Magazine. Her short illustrated story, “The Hunger” was featured in an anthology edited by Joyce Carol Oates, Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers. Find more of her storytelling here.
January 29th, 2021 | by Lisa Lim
Remote learning or in-person learning? Whatever decision you made, you had to stick to it for the rest of the school year. No backsies. What made it even tougher was deciding whether to stay put at my in-law’s house in the middle of nowhere, or go home to the city.
December 30th, 2020 | by Lisa Lim
2020, you’re the worst. You shoved about a decade worth of regretful history into one year. You were unrelenting in your onslaught of drama and tragedies. Good riddance. And as my son likes to say, “You were a total poopy head.”
June 11th, 2020 | by Lisa Lim
I knew that I also needed to have “a talk” with my son. A different kind of talk
March 13th, 2020 | by Lisa Lim
When the fear is as contagious as the virus, you get Xenophobia. And in this current political climate, permission to hate is granted from the top down
July 11th, 2019 | by Lisa Lim
“Am I a Twinkie Mommy?” It’s the question I always ask myself as a mother to an Amerasian child. “
May 24th, 2018 | by Lisa Lim
A Comic About My Bad Ass Grandmother aka Nag Finger is about my favorite matriarch in life, my grandma. It’s
June 2nd, 2017 | by Lisa Lim
When I was a child, I remember writing Nancy Reagan about the pretty gowns she wore. I got back a
September 27th, 2016 | by Lisa Lim
My first memory of my sister, Angie, was in my mother’s small hands. She looked like a raisin, but caterwauled
July 14th, 2016 | by Lisa Lim
My mother was a typist. She worked at a small accountant firm in the city. She didn’t make a lot,
December 2nd, 2015 | by Lisa Lim
Really, the number one thing to know about the “baby blues?” If your blues are severe, ask for help and
