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NPR: Comic artist Yumi Sakugawa draws on her Asian American experience

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Yumi Sakugawa has combined her love for drawing with her passion for writing in her illustrative work.

The woman behind Claudia Kishi, My Asian American Female Role Model of the 90’s has released her latest book, I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You.
Sakugawa recently talked with NPR’s Kat Chow.
” When my stories aren’t so based on monsters or fantastical creatures, my characters do tend to be Asian-American, even if they don’t explicitly deal with Asian-American issues,” said Sakugawa. “There are always going to be little details that signify that they’re Japanese-American or Asian-American, whether it’s their names or the food that they eat or the things they talk about. I think it has a significant role in how I make my artwork and how I tell my stories.”
Sakugawa based her strip Claudia Kishi, Asian American Female Role Model of the 90’s on her own experience as a Japanese American.
“Definitely with Claudia Kishi, that came from a very Japanese-American point of view, and from growing up as a person of color and not really seeing people of color as far as TV shows, books, toys, movies and video games and everything else. I feel like being a second-generation person of color born to immigrant parents, I really do think that sort of — however subconsciously — [does] play into my creative perspective on juggling dual realities, barriers in connecting with other people, just sort of having dual perspectives on reality.”
You can read about her latest, I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You and the influence of Buddhism on her on NPR

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