The first find, an award winning Korean American graphic novelist.
Reading along his blog, you'll find "Apples don't fall far from the tree": his cousin in Korea is a successful graphic novelist and one of her stories is being adopted to a Korean TV drama, and his brother is a graphic novelist, too.
Best known as the author of the following three graphic novels:
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- The Same Difference (2004/2005): His first book that brought him glory and fame.
- Good As Lily (2007); I don't know why he didn't illustrate it.
- He worked with Gene Luen Yang, the author of the classic, American Born Chinese and produced The Eternal Smile: Three stories.
His stories are included in
- Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (2006)
- Superman: Tales of the Bizzaro World (2006)
He is also translating a bunch of Korean Manwhas
- Hanami series
- Shaman Warriors series
His comment on the controversy over 'Hollywood Avata, casting all Caucasian actors to portray Asians characters' shows he stands in the world of Graphic Novels in US.
Jea, this is very cool! Derek Kim is so amazing, and I hadn't read his blog about the Avatar Casting. Wow, he's really got me fired up now! Teen Central teens are really infuriated by the decision as well. We actually had discussion on this at two different TAG meetings. We even blogged our thoughts: http://community.livejournal.com/teen_central_ny/605.html
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