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- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to write 'Superman,' to be able to work with the legendary artist who is John Romita Jr., I signed on as soon as I could.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superman has been around for so long; he's been around for, what, eight decades now? And he goes through these different eras where different aspects of who he is get emphasized.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my classroom, I would start my lessons with a quick review of an old topic. Then, I would introduce a new topic. Finally, I would give my students a problem to solve on their own, one that would reinforce what I'd just taught.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.
- Different Ages
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, pretty much like everyone around my age, I grew up playing those classic video games. I wouldn't say I was addicted to them, but I definitely liked them.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'American Born Chinese' started getting a lot of attention, I freaked out a little bit because I realized that up until then I had just been doing comics by following my gut. I didn't really know much about plot structure or anything; I kind of just followed my gut.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just nerve-wracking in general to write 'Superman,' right? I'm a life-long superhero fan, and he is the character that kicked off the entire genre.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge fan of the Bruce Timm animated series and, of course, the live action 'Lois & Clark' series. I watched that when I was in college.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a superhero fan in the '90s, so I'm definitely familiar with John Romita, Jr. In fact, when I was in high school, I would go to local conventions and line up and get his signature.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all of us, I don't think Facebook is 100% evil, but there are aspects of it that move towards evilness. It's true of all the major Silicon Valley companies, that there are aspects to all of them that move towards evilness, but I don't believe they're 100% evil.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of tweens stumbles upon a secret school, only instead of teaching magic, the school teaches coding.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started appearing.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there's bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superman is such an old character. He's an old character with this huge legacy behind him. And one of the awesome things about the fact that he's been around for these decades is that he's gone through these different phases.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don't feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.
- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a fairly limited drawing style. I'm not like my friend Derek Kirk Kim, who can pretty much change his style at will. My drawing style can handle some of my stories, but not all of them.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
- Monkey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my research, I learned that the Boxers' kung fu wasn't all that formalized. The vast majority of them didn't belong to some age-old martial arts tradition. They were basically poor, starving teenagers doing the best they could to figure out how to fight, relying more on their mystical beliefs than formal training.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020