Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

In light of the Akira casting controversy last week, perhaps some may enjoy sampling the tastier news of Showtime picking up the script for Chew, a quirky comic book series featuring Chinese American police detective Tony Chu, as a half-hour TV series.

In a lovely bit of surprise, award-winning artist Shaun Tan and his film The Lost Thing took home the Oscar Award on Sunday for Best Animated Short.

Taking inspiration from the January 4th release of My Mom is a Fob, the book based on the popular blog from creators Serena Wu and Teresa Wu, the Asian American Writers' Workshop is throwing a mother-loving book bash that same day

When a friend invited me to a theater screening of the 2002 Oscar-nominated short films, I dug deep and scraped together some faint enthusiasm.

You know how when someone says, “I have to tell you something -- oh, nevermind," it suddenly makes you obsessed to know what that thing is?

Now that Iron Man 2's blown up the box office, it's time to turn to another comic-turned-movie with a cult following: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

I haven't gotten my dog-earing hands on it yet, but for those of you near Berkeley...

Mathematician turned illustrator and cartoonist Jason Shiga and his new graphic novel Meanwhile have a pre-pub launch party this Sunday, Feb. 28th:

Books Inc. ~ 1760 Fourth Street ~ Berkeley, CA ~ (510) 525-7777 ~ 6 to 9 pm

 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by children's author and illustrator Grace Lin won a Newbery Honor award this past Monday (photos and description of her receiving "the call" found at her blog).