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George Takei Is Producing A Graphic Novel About His Japanese Internment Experience
George Takei is producing a graphic novel about his family’s experience in Japanese internment camps during World War II. Readers will see the story through the eyes of a […]
Add These 10 Books To Your Summer Reading List
It’s that beautiful time of year when all we want to do is kick back in the sun and read. When it comes to choosing a book to cozy […]
JR De Guzman Has All The Makings Of The Next Big Comic
To a kid who grew up watching legends like Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee on television, getting to be a part of that world is magic. The 26-year-old JR […]
New Chinese Super-Man Story Shows How Far America Has Come Since 1937
In March of 1937, DC, then known as Detective Comics, released its first-ever issue — and boy, was political correctness not a thing back then. Ching Lung, who graced […]
Venturing into the world of the Wangs: A conversation with author Jade Chang
“I am very interested in people,” Los Angeles native and novelist Jade Chang told Kore on a preternaturally hot SoCal afternoon as she sat down to discuss her highly […]
Jeremy Lin joins Amadeus Cho in ‘Totally Awesome Hulk’
Star NBA point guard Jeremy Lin will make a special appearance in December’s issue of Marvel’s “Totally Awesome Hulk,” which features Amadeus Cho as the new fist-smashing hero. Lin, […]
Pulitzer-winning Nguyen longlisted for National Book Award
Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction last spring for his novel “The Sympathizer,” is now in the running for a nonfiction National Book Award. Nguyen’s […]
The Old West meets fantasy in Greg Pak’s ‘Kingsway West’
If you thought the Old West was wild, you’ve got another thing coming with “Kingsway West,” which reimagines the West as trekked through by a wanted Chinese gunslinger intent […]
‘Tong Wars’ explores history of Chinese American immigrant gangs
A tale of violence between rival Chinese immigrant fraternities, or tongs, spans from the late 1800s to the Prohibition era in Scott D. Seligman’s “Tong Wars: The Untold Story […]
The story behind the coming ‘Vampire Hunter D’ comic and anime series
Scott McLean was just a kid when he first encountered the series for which he would end up producing both a much-buzzed-about TV anime show and American-style comic books. Enraptured […]
Asian American girls rule in Sarah Kuhn’s ‘Heroine Complex’
In Sarah Kuhn’s fantastical world of supernatural humans and demon portals in an otherwise-modern-day San Francisco, Asian American women are the ones leading the charge in the fight against […]
The Immigrant Novel, 2.1: The Unforgiven Generation
In her review of Sung J. Woo’s Love Love, Euny Hong describes the book as both “a dirge and a paean to the second-generation Korean American.” by EUNY HONG Sung […]
Comic Strip Shows Just How Uncomfortable Asian Fetishism Makes Us Feel
“As a latecomer to dating, I don’t know a lot of the “rules”of the game,” cartoonist Connie Sun explains in her comic strip Flora, Fauna, Asian Fetish. “But […]
Koreans Speaking at San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Panels
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com San Diego Comic-Con, the biggest and most wonderful gathering of comic book and pop culture enthusiasts from around the world, is in […]
