Luong, Tom

Michael Julian Phillips is a retired journalist-artist, a Fifth-generation Californian whose career has included many projects for film-video, stage, numerous children's books, newspapers and magazines, and music. Julian was born in 1957, at Saint Mary's Hospital in Long Beach, California, the son of an Army Radio Man who served in World War 2 and the Korean Conflict, and his young German born bride, an orphan girl whose childhood included witness of Hitler's murderous rule, and Russian military incursion into East Germany. Julian's grandfather, Edward Julian Phillips, known as 'Jules', was a