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| Champions of Comic Books |
 From "Same Difference" by Derek Kirk Kim Intrepid explorers of the intersection of image and word! Or maybe just crazy control freaks who want to make you think and see exactly what they want you to see and think! Featured artists include: Jaime Cortez, Garret Izumi, Derek Kirk Kim, Jason Shiga, Patricia Wakida, Hellen Jo, and Gene Yang. Co-presented with Super7. About the Artists Jaime Cortez is a visual artist, writer and comic performer based in San Francisco's Mission District. His new bilingual graphic novel, "Sexile," is about the life and times of transgender activist Adela Vazquez. Published by AIDS Project Los Angeles, the book traces Vazquez's life from Cuba to Los Angeles in the '80s. Garret Izumi has been self-publishing since the early 90s. His work includes photography books, comics and hand letterpress books. Each book has focused on varying themes from memories and vision to suburban and urban landscapes to life in the nuclear age. In 1994, Garret received the Xeric Grant to publish Strip Down. Garret's latest book, Three Grey Women, is a hand letterpress accordion-style book. Three Grey Women is the retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Perseus and Medusa. The story explores sight and vision and how our world is defined by what we see. Art and text and printing by Garret Izumi and the linoleum block carvings are by Patricia Wakida. Hellen Jo sucks. But her comics are okay. Visit http://hellen.gq.nu. Derek Kirk Kim is a multiple award winning artist (Harvey Award for Best New Talent, Eisner Award, Xeric Grant) and this year's featured literary artist at Kearny Street Workshop's APAture festival. His illustrated short story collection "Same Difference and Other Stories" was recently re-issued. lowbright.com At the age of 15, Jason Shiga started animating - his first cartoon was called Midnight Snack. This 30 second movie featured one man slowly eating another man's head. From shigabooks.com: "Incredibly, I drew the 180 frames which composed this movie in an hour and a half flat! I continue to this day to hold to this standard of quantity over quality. I continued animating through high school and into college where I discovered comics. Comics, it turned out, was just like animation but without the labor. Not knowing any better, I put out a graphic novel every month for the first 5 months I was making comics." shigabooks.com Patricia Wakida is a yonsei, born and raised in California. Once upon a time, she worked as an apprentice papermaker in Gifu, Japan and as an apprentice letterpress printer and hand bookbinder at the Arts and Crafts Press in Berkeley. She continues to do linoblock and letterpress printing on a Chandler and Price pilot press stashed away in her tiny garage studio in Oakland. Her work has appeared at "Post, Poster, Postest" in Tokyo, the Mission Cultural Center, the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, the Bookworks show at the SF Main Public Library, and many other shows. Cartoonist Gene Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. In 1997, he received the Xeric Grant, a prestigious comics industry grant, for 'Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks', his first comics work as an adult. He has since written and drawn a number of comic books, including 'Duncan's Kingdom' (illustrated by Derek Kirk Kim) for Image Comics and 'The Rosary Comic Book' for Pauline Books and Media. 'American Born Chinese', his most recent work, is serialized weekly at the Modern Tales site. Gene currently teaches high school computer science in Oakland. He lives in Fremont, California with his lovely wife Theresa and newborn son Kolbe. His site: humble comics
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