Ishii, Arriola, and stereotypes
The MoMA just posted a comics biography of Ruth Asawa done by Jillian Tamaki. On the second page, Tamaki mentions Chris Ishii and a comic strip created about life at the Japanese-American concentration camps. I ...
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The Year (and Decade) in Review
2019 The Lost Cause of Poetry came out.The digital version came out in September. “Lounger” was released on Tapas.Then later I also released it on Webtoon. Tony Ez Esmond wrote a review of “Defrost” ...
An alternative history of graphic novels
The common history of graphic novels, and the one I learned, follows comics aimed mainly at children and the publishers who made them. We hear about the rise and fall of EC, the birth of ...
Citizen 13660 by Miné Okubo
When I was in the seventh grade, I read Farewell to Manzanar and was told that it was the only book about the U.S. internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2. Fifteen years later, I found out ...