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'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.
What is China but a people and their stories?
Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.
Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.
I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.
I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.
Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever.
The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.
I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.
'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.
Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.
Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.
Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.
My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.
It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.
I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.
To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.
I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.
I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.
My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.
Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.
I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.
I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
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.
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.
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?
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.
'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is, to my mind, the greatest American animated series ever produced. The characters lived and breathed.
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.
Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.
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.
During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.
I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.
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.
One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.
Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.