June 01, 2006
More on Asian American Superheroes
Janie Chin and her boyfriend (shockingly, Asian American guy) totally make out in the pages of Greg Pak's "Warlock."
Image courtesy of Marvel Comics and Greg Pak
I thought the all-new Atom as an Asian American superhero was cool (see previous post), but it turns out that there are others out there! Jeff Yang wrote a pretty thorough and interesting article in SFGate.com about the variety of new Asian American superheroes and the history behind this race-volution.
Richard - I've been reading your blog for awhile. I would have e-mailed you but it is early and I cannot find a link. Speaking of Asian males do you have any books you can recommend? I head up a book club for a parenting group of Korean adoptive families. We have read a lot of books from a female perspective, both adoptee and not, but would love to hear from Asian males. Many of us have adopted boys. Thanks in advance if you can help me. -- Judi
Posted by: Judi at June 5, 2006 08:05 AMhi judi,
thanks for reading my blog. as for books on asian american men (or written from this perspective), a classic memoir is "turning japanese" by david mura. the novella "american knees" by shawn wong also is good (and soon to be a motion picture). from a korean american perspective, you might read "native speaker" by chang rae lee.
-rich
Thanks. Your Alvin post had me cracking up, although I'm sure you aren't laughing. - judi
Posted by: Judi at June 5, 2006 01:46 PM