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.
Gene Luen YangWait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)
Gene Luen YangIf you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.
Gene Luen YangTo find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.
Gene Luen YangSuperheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.
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