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Marvel's Akira Yoshida Scandal Spawns #ActualAsianComicWriters Hashtag

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Yesterday, Bleeding Cool broke the news that new Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski wrote several Marvel comic books as a fictional Japanese man named Akira Yoshida. You can read all about that here.

In response to the story, which has made headlines across entertainment and mainstream media, Mark Tseng-Putterman started a hashtag to highlight actual Asian comic writers, appropriately named #ActualAsianComicWriters.

Others have been joining in, recommending their favorite #ActualAsianComicWriters:

And MariNaomi even beat us to the punch by recommending herself, as well as additional resource, the Cartoonists of Color Database:

Marvel's Akira Yoshida Scandal Spawns #ActualAsianComicWriters Hashtag
Seems appropriate for the situation…

The hashtag is sure to continue growing, surely featuring some of your favorite creators, and also some for you to discover, so check it out and participate on Twitter.

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