Elisha Lim

"If You're Not Sure, Ask": How To Write Characters Of Color
"If You're Not Sure, Ask": How To Write Characters Of Color
"If You're Not Sure, Ask": How To Write Characters Of Color
In late August, writer Gene Luen Yang posed a challenge to his peers in the world of comics: Write characters who are different from you, racially and culturally, even if it's scary. That can be tough to do without being insulting, or tone-deaf, or resorting to stereotypes. What can really help for writers is input from people of the races and cultures that they hope to depict; people who can gauge whether a work has the right level of sensitivity and understanding. Luckily, a whole bunch of cartoonists have come together to offer up advice in a post on Midnight Breakfast titled "Writing People of Color (if you happen to be a person of another color)." It's chock full of insight.
Koyama Press Announces 2014 Publishing Slate
Koyama Press Announces 2014 Publishing Slate
Koyama Press Announces 2014 Publishing Slate
Koyama Press announced its lineup of new comics for spring 2014 this week, and the three collections and one original graphic novel in the group look pretty doggone fantastic. Cat Person collects Seo Kim's daily comics, issues 2-5 of Michael Deforge's anthology Lose are collected in A Body Beneath, 1000 Crushes is a compilation of excepts from various books by Elisha Lim and new work, and Jesse Ja