Phuong-Mai Blasich (PMBQ) Information

Creative Director / Comic Artist
P.M.B.Q. Studios
San Jose, CA

See also: Public Murals by PMBQ @ Wescover and P.M.B.Q. Studios Online Shop

Biography:
Phuong-Mai "Mai" Blasich is the founder artist of P.M.B.Q. Studios, a graphic and panda arts studio in San Jose, CA. Her work focuses on cheerful animal characters doing everyday things, striving to remind us to stop, enjoy and appreciate the simple things in life.

Mai's creative career began in 1993 as a comic artist in Antarctic Press' series, Ninja High School. She has done work with Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and went on to self-publish her action-comedy comic Tea Club. You can also see Mai's public mural work in downtown San Jose at the "First Street Panda Cafe & Bakery", a 180 foot-long mural stretching around the corner of North First and San Fernando Streets. Her second mural, "Pups of Pup Plaza", can be found at the Pup Plaza community space run by Silicon Valley Pet Project. Mai's character work continues to be expressed through her panda art brand "PMBQ."

When she's not creating or teaching art, Mai enjoys doing everyday family things with her son Griffith and her husband Stephen.