FLIGHT

Nice pinup, Kazu. Are you going to draw the whole story out?

I got through the first round of submission acceptance of SI, did some sketches, and was forced to grind a bunch of edits but in the end I was cut. Their book turned out nice though it's interesting to compare the changes in their preliminary lineup and the final.

The prelim lineup:


The final lineup:
IN THE BEGINNING (PREFACE): Story by Jeff Yang; art by Jef Castro

--DRIVING STEEL: Story by Jeff Yang; art by Benton Jew
--SAM MEETS LARRY HAMA by Tak Toyoshima

SECTION ONE: WAR & REMEMBRANCE
--INTERSTITIAL by Parry Shen; art by Alex Tarampi

--9066: Story by Jonathan Tsuei; art by Jerry Ma
--HEROES WITHOUT A COUNTRY: Story by Daniel Jai Lee; art by Vince Sunico
--GAMAN: Story by Jamie Ford; art by Alex Tarampi
--THE HIBAKUSHA: Story by Parry Shen; art by Glenn Urieta

--REDIRECTING COMICS: GREG PAK by Keith Chow; art by A.L. Baroza
--THE CITIZEN: Story by Greg Pak; art by Bernard Chang
--SIDEKICKS: YANG + KANG by Keith Chow; art by A.L. Baroza
--THE BLUE SCORPION & CHUNG: Story by Gene Yang; art by Sonny Liew
--JAMES: Story by Michael Kang; art by Erwin Haya

SECTION TWO: MANY MASKS
--INTERSTITIAL by Jason Sperber; art by Chi-Yun Lau

GALLERY: 8 FULL COLOR PAGES
--FEATURING: AGENT ORANGE by Dustin Nguyen & Dustin Nguyen; JIA by Kelly Hu & Cliff Chiang; GAZE by Sung Kang, Billy Tan, & Walden Wong; FLIGHT by Ian Kim; CATACLYSM by Yul Kwon & Deodato Pangandoyon; SHINE by Leonardo Nam & Anthony Tan; GO by Kazu Kibuishi; and PARALLEL PENNY by Anthony Wu

SECTION THREE: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
--INTERSTITIAL by Keith Chow; art by Chi-Yun Lau

--NOW THERE'S SOMETHING: GREG LAROCQUE by Keith Chow; art by Alexander Shen
--TRINITY: Story and art by Greg LaRocque
--NO EXIT: Story by Naeem Mohaiemen; art by Glenn Urieta
--THE WALLPASSER: Story by Clarence Coo; art by Jerry Ma
--TWILIGHT: Story by Ted Chung & Anuj Shrestha; art by Anuj Shrestha
--S.O.S.: Story by Tanuj Chopra; art by Alex Joon Kim

SECTION FOUR: GIRL POWER
--INTERSTITIAL by Kripa Joshi

--YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT: Story by Lynn Chen; art by Paul Wei
--SAMPLER: Story by Jimmy Aquino; art by Erwin Haya
--LEARN TO SHARE: Story by Keiko Agena; art by Ming Doyle
--A DAY AT COSTUMECO: Story by Jeff Yang; art by A.L. Baroza
--SUPERGRRL by Hellen Jo

SECTION FIVE: ORDINARY HEROES
--INTERSTITIAL by Raymond Sohn

--DAVID KIM: Story by John Kuramoto; art by Christine Norrie
--MEET JOE: Story by Koji Steven Sakai; art by John Franzese
--ON THE THIRD DAY: Story and art by Johann Choi
--LONG, THE DRAGON BOY: Story and art by Martin Hsu
--JUSTIFIED: Story by Ken Wong; art by Tiffanie Hwang
--JUST ORDINARY: Story by Nick Huang; art by Alexander Shen

SECTION SIX: FROM HEADLINE TO HERO
--INTERSTITIAL by Parry Shen; art by Jeremy Arambulo

--16 MILES: Story by Parry Shen; art by Sarah Sapang
--TAKING BACK TROY: Story by Jeff Yang; art by Francis Tsai
--PERIL: Story by Keith Chow; art by Jef Castro

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I didn't realize I was drawing a story!

I am really looking forward to reading this book. There is a story by Gene Yang and Sonny Liew?!

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Sorry neil, you got cut.

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man, I must have missed something. What is this project?

It's one of those "let's get even for being victims of comic racism by making our own racist comics" type of projects.

I'm kidding.

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Yeah, I think it was motivated by the observation that there are a lot of asian american comics creators and few asian american characters--so the theme is basically asian american characters by asian american creators. I don't know if there's anything more specific than that.

Gau dog, you should post your story! I wanna read.

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Now that I look at it again, my story IS pretty stupid! But it was kinda fun. Here's the drafts, from the original 6 pager to the 3 page hack & slash: http://jamesmarstudio.com/secretidentities/IdentityIcons.doc

And here's a few fav sketches:

(He's a very troubled octupus... with a dark dirty package)


(These guys are Hawaiian so their Giant Robot HAS to know how to surf.)


(I couldn't imagine a super chameleon going without a tricked out rider)


(kid+giant weapon=end of the world)

Sorry neil, I didn't get around to making up an Indian American superhero. Although I will confess, I am quite a fan of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Pjo0WjBcs and others like "little superstar" and "golimar". If I ever did make an Indian superhero, maybe irresistible dance moves and singing skillz could be the superpower.

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