Tak - Thach Bui, founder of Toronto's Artattack Studio,has produced editorial illustrations and artwork for newspapers and advertisers since 1977. He has illustrated numerous books and drawn specialty comic strips for the National Post, The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, The Globe and Mail and Owl Magazine. In addition to illustrating "Cheap Thrills Cuisine," Bui is the cartoonist behind "PC and Pixel," which features the story of PC Odata - divorced and downsized - who works as a free-lance consultant out of his home, and because of his increasing frustration with today's technology, often seeks help from his Net-surfing cat, Pixel.
Bui was born in Vietnam, where he grew up in an environment of political chaos, guerrilla terrorism and countless military coups. He found escape in drawing cartoons and collecting comics that came from Japan and France. In 1967, he came to the United States on a high-school student scholarship to spend his senior year with an American family. The following year he moved to Canada, attended the New School of Art in Toronto and began his cartoon career in 1973. He has won several awards for editorial illustrations from the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators. He currently resides in Toronto with his wife and their two sons.