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It's easy to become anything you wish ... so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is, to my mind, the greatest American animated series ever produced. The characters lived and breathed.

I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.

'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.

'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have, along with their team, painstakingly planned out the Avatarverse.

'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.

I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.

Though cast away am I from the heart of my city, black tears dribble from mine eyes at the sight of the fearful trail blazing towards her gates!

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.

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever.

I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.

When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

Appa has feelings, too!

I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

[S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

So basically, you get to play Super Mario all you want, any time you want, for FREE !"
"That is the single most amazing thing I've ever heard.

We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh ... that is the highest of all freedoms.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.

I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

What is China but a people and their stories?

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.

To be able to write 'Superman,' to be able to work with the legendary artist who is John Romita Jr., I signed on as soon as I could.

I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.

The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.

I was a huge fan of the Bruce Timm animated series and, of course, the live action 'Lois & Clark' series. I watched that when I was in college.

For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.

Oh, cruel abandonment! My bones turn to dust beneath the gaze of your ever-mocking smile!

Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.

Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.

Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.

I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.

Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?

I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.

'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.

Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.

Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.

I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intended you to be. A monkey you are.

I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.