Belle Yang | Belle Yang
Nov.01.2009
Got confused by the recent political Town Hall Tea Parties. For one thing, no one served tea. But a lot of yelling about health and insurance. Well, then, they should have serrved tea, a great source of antioxidants, especially if you drink green tea.
The Cleveland Tea Party, of course, was...
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Sep.13.2009
When my Chinese-American friends come down from the Bay Area for a visit to the Central Coast, they say, We'd like to stop by and say, hi, to your parents. It truly warms the cockles of my heart. Only my Chinese-American friends think to do this.
When I was invited to speak at the...
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Sep.03.2009
Since my last post in April specific to my graphic novel, I've been working steadily with my editor at WW Norton to reinforce the flow of the story. It involved a lot of old-fashioned cutting and pasting with X-acto knife and rubber cement. I moved comics panel around, drew new ones to fill in...
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Aug.16.2009
My father's second cousin had come to the city, and he saw a group of men standing around the vendor of bolts of blue and white cotton cloth. "This is of excellent quality and I'm lettin' them go cheap," cried the vendor to the cousin. He unloaded the bolt from his cart, throwing them...
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Aug.09.2009
I'm coming to the end of my Manchurian trilogy (the last of the three books to be published next year in graphic novel format), which I've worked on for twenty years. It is my obsession no longer, nor do I owe the unrequited ghosts of my ancestors the labor of my heart and pen.
I was obsessed this...
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Jul.20.2009
Ryoma Collia-Suzuki had sent me a link to one of his favorite painters, Miamoto Musashi, in the Chinese/Japanese ink-wash style or sumi-e in Japanese. I sent a couple of images I had painted in China in the late 80's. He was surprised by this older style of my late 20's, because the only pieces...
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Jul.14.2009
Yesterday, I wrote about love, about feeling loved, about loving back. Belle Yang commented that she feels love not from one person but from the very "space" around her. She is buoyed and bolstered and safe.
Her comment made me conjure a love bubble, a safety, a protection that all...
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Jul.12.2009
I am finally peaceful enough to write after a health scare that sucked away all oxygen for nearly a year. The last three weeks turned nightmarish, because my eyes were to be implanted with medicine at St. Mary's on Wednesday. A foreign object was going to be plugged in near my retina. After...
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Jul.01.2009
The Sublime Weight Of Our Obsessions
Especially moving is the weight of heritage and history in the memoir of English professor and grease monkey/craftsman, Matthew Biberman. The father ate bitter fruit in his youth and the son is made to wince from the unsettling memory.
Matthew Biberman's...
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Jun.25.2009
Sunday, June 28
2 to 3:30 PM
Partners in Reading San José Public Library 150 East San Fernando Street San José, CA 95112
Phone: (408) 808-2357
I'll be doing a program planned around "Foo the Flying Frog of Washtub Pond" this Sunday at the above venue This little book is prefect for...
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