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American
Born Chinese With American Born Chinese, I'm trying to say something about my experiences growing up as an Asian-American by telling three different stories. The first stars the Monkey King, folk hero of Chinese legend; the second recounts the struggles of a Chinese-American boy trying to fit into a predominantly white suburb; and the third is a sit-com starring everybody's favorite racial stereotype, Cousin Chin-Kee. It's been released in FULL COLOR as part of First Second Books' Fall 2006 line-up. |
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Gordon
Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks This is the first comic I ever did as an adult. The art's pretty rough, and I kind of made up the story as I went along, but I guess I'm still happy with parts of it. One thing's for sure: I learned a lot about comics by making my own. The graphic novel edition published by Slave Labor has a new 10 page story starring Sammy the Baker. "It’s so full of left-field, retard
nonsense, that it almost can’t help but charm your pants down
to your ankles." |
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Loyola
Chin and the San Peligran Order With Loyola Chin, I tried to apply everything I'd learned by doing Gordon Yamamoto. Like plotting the entire storyline out before starting on the art, for instance. The result is a story about Gordon's crush, a Chinese-American girl who controls her dreams by eating certain foods before she goes to sleep. |
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The
Rosary Comic Book I've always struggled with how to incorporate my faith into my comics in an authenic way. One Lent, I decided to do a comic adaptation of the Rosary Prayer, rather than giving up chocolate or soda. The Rosary Comic Book is the result. |
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The
Motherless One This is a tale from the early life of the Monkey King, folk hero of ancient China. I did this short 14-pager as a way of testing out some new drawing materials (namely, brush on vellum). It worked out so well that I've been drawing my comics this way ever since. |
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Duncan's
Kingdom If you can ever manage to trick comics wunderkind Derek Kirk Kim into drawing one of your scripts, you'll have one of the most amazing creative experiences of your life. Watching him fill in blacks on a page drawn from something you wrote will make you feel all, you know, important and stuff. |