The peeps from Secret Identities are promoting hard. They were over at New York Comic Con and recently the east coast asian american student union (ECAASU) 2009. You can see the video from them panel below.
Secret Identities at ECAASU 2009
More about the Secret Identities at ECAASU 2009
JEFF YANG, founder of the pioneering Asian American periodical “aMagazine” and author of the biweekly column “Asian Pop” for the San Francisco Chronicle, lives in Brooklyn, New York. PARRY SHEN, best known for his lead role in the movie “Better Luck Tomorrow,” lives in Southern California. KEITH CHOW, freelance writer and comics-in-education specialist, lives in Maryland. JERRY MA, the founder of the indie comics studio Epic Proportions, lives in New York City. They are the editors of A GROUNDBREAKING GRAPHIC COLLECTION THAT EXPLORES ASIAN AMERICAN CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND HISTORY THROUGH ALL-NEW SUPERHERO COMICS, also known as Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.
There’s this guy we know—quiet, unassuming, with black hair and thick glasses. He’s doing his best to fit in, in a world far away from the land of his birth. He knows he’s different, and that his differences make him alien, an outsider—but they also make him special. Yet he finds himself unable to reveal his true self, his hidden self, to the world… For many Asian Americans, this chronicle is a familiar one, because many of us have lived it. But it also happens to be the tale of a mild-mannered reporter named Clark Kent, better known to the world as Superman. And the parallels between those stories help explain why Asian Americans have become such a driving force in the contemporary comics renaissance, as artists, writers—and fans.
Entertaining, enlightening and more than a little provocative, Secret Identities blends whiz-bang action, wry satire and thoughtful commentary into a groundbreaking anthology about a community too often overlooked by the cultural mainstream. It is hitting bookshelves this Spring! Get your copy of “SECRET IDENTITIES: The Asian American Superhero Anthology” today.
