China Quotes

'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.
'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.
'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.
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist.
Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.
As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.
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.
Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.
Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever.
Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.
Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. They blend time and space. Many feature characters with dual identities like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Cartoonists also tend to live dichotomous lives because many of us have day jobs.
During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.
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.
Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.
For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
«first‹previous7980818283848586878889next›last»
Total Records : 1794

Related Books

Author Profile

Votes :
Rating :
AuthorName
Abdoulaye Wade
Profession
Statesman
BirthDate
29 May, 1926
View Profile

Share to your friends..

Related Author

Abdoulaye Wade Akhmad Kadyrov Alfredo Stroessner Andrej Kiska Andry Rajoelina Bashar al-Assad Carlos Mesa Evo Morales Hun Sen Josefa Iloilo Kamisese Mara Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Red Cloud Vaclav Klaus Wilma Mankiller
view more

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive