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A dash of M.S.G (Macho Sino Girl)

  • Ecstasy (For Gina and Ryoma Collia-Suzuki)

    February 23, 2009

    • You can build some pretty intense friendships in Redroom--across a continent and a body of water.  Gina and Ryoma Collia-Suzuki and I have shared our treasures, our dreams, our fears  I introduce to them--and to you--my childhood and the lay of the land. ************* In the first five years of my life, I lived at the knees of Sleeping Dragon Mountain.  I could see rice paddies and flowing ...
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  • Lear: Is 'thank you' redemption enough?

    June 26, 2008

    •  Please watch Youtube video of Belle's Chinese "King Lear" a graphic novel in the making  I need help with a question.Author and playwright James Whyle wrote ringingly clear about King Lear: Belle, we can't deny that terrible things happen in the story. But what is the journey of the protagonist? He starts off monstrously stupid and arrogant, he becomes mad. In that ...
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  • #4 graphic novel-in-progress: Flying Out the Window

    June 9, 2008

    • I continue to work on my graphic novel, "Forget Sorrow: A China Elegy," to be published by WW Norton and Company. I got tired of the talking heads in this section, so I threw the scene of the last panel outdoors with kids playing ball. In this panel, I directed the dialog bubble to the man in the window, one of my great uncles, in conversation with my grandfather on how to make ...
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  • A dash of M.S.G. (Macho Sino Girl)

    January 5, 2008

    • When I lived in Beijing in the bad ol' 80's, a bunch of us Chinese-American women expats called ourselves the M.S.G. or Macho Sino Girls.  When I drink too much gunpowder tea at night, I have an itch to draw cartoons to amuse myself, signing it--what else. . . 
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