Asian Archives

Paul Gravett has curated a new exhibition on Asian comic books for The Barbican, Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form which has just opened in The Bowers in Santa Ana, California Created in close collaboration with a diverse team of over twenty international advisors, it has more than 500 featured works, including delicate Japanese[...]

DC will be celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May with the DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration, a 96-page one-shot anthology starring and created by Asians and those with Asian heritage It will be created by Gene Luen Yang, Mariko Tamaki, Ram V, Greg Pak, Alyssa Wong, Amy Chu, Minh Lê, Dustin Nguyen, and[...]

Could anyone else picture a contemporary foreign language film 5-10 years ago and beyond? What would the Academy consider otherwise? Most probably think historical drama or martial arts epic if it were from Asia. Barunson E&A "Parasite" and Other Asian Films in the Oscars Prior to Parasite, you had the martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)[...]

There's no hope that they'll clean up their act on the dozens of fronts on which their incompetence is an affront to T-W stockholders. The performance of all of them, from Diane Whatsername and Geoff Suckup-to-Donner and Di-DiWhatsisname and that talentless little Asian fellow, and that team of Marvel Elephant's Graveyard leftovers who are only marking[...]