Belle Yang | Belle Yang
Jun.02.2009
Below, an unpublished, unedited piece of where I was 20 years ago when the violence erupted in Beijing. I tried to set things down before my memory became fuzzy. Click here for unparalleled photos by "Gabriel" from those heady, bloody days and nights.
From Guilin of slow flowing...
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May.31.2009
I created this comic strip around the 18th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre for the Washington Post. I tried a black and white version, but the editor, Marie Arana, said she'd give me the centerfold if I drew it in full color. Here is the interview with Marie:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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May.25.2009
I posted this comment last year. This is a reminder to all about the approaching anniversary.
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I had promised myself I'd scan all the photos my friend X had taken during the night of June 3-4, 1989. I am exhausted and have managed to scan two-thirds. X, I believe, is living safely in France...
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May.18.2009
Jess Brown. The few things I knew about this man I frequently met at activist Mary Green's parties: he was handsome, gentle and soft spoken; he had served on the board of the Monterey Museum of Art; he and his wife, Laura, had purchased one of my favorite paintings, that of Chinese acrobats. But...
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Apr.26.2009
Dear Belle,
How would you like to have a Big Sur adventure with me? I have been invited by Erin Gafill to videotape a little bit of Nepenthe's 60th Anniversary celebration on Friday. I would use it for a segment of Life in the Arts. All of the Big Sur artists and characters will come out of the...
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Apr.19.2009
You'll be hearing me cry, "I'm finished," multiple times before I am really done.
Two weeks ago, I completed the body of my graphic novel, "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale. Then I took five days off to play, feeling guilty after only the second day of goofing off.
final page on...
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Apr.14.2009
Sometimes, you feel a creative relationship is legendary while you are part of it. And if it won't be legend, why not pretend it is while you live it? It makes life all that more intriguing and dazzling. What's feels legendary about my connection to Steve and Nancy Hauk? Well, I'd have to...
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Apr.08.2009
Samuel Beckett was fascinated by Cezanne.
He was obsessed by art and visited galleries constantly.
Makes sense in a way.
Most of his plays suggest landscapes.
Barren landscapes.
A scraggily tree, interesting to the characters because they might hang themselves from it
Mounds of dirt and sand...
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Apr.04.2009
This is a blog entry I write to myself to mark a celebration.
I am drawing my very last page of "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale," a memoir in graphic (comics) format. I've buried my great grandfather, I've taken the ashes of my grandparents to holy Wutain Mountain, I've made my father...
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Mar.29.2009
When I worked with Paula Wiseman at Harcourt Brace nearly a decade ago, I was surprised by her comment, which I paraphrase: "Your style is different from anyone else's."
Then I heard it again today in a review in a Scholastic's online tool for teachers:
I think frogs must just be...
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