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America has never been a true meritocracy, and whether we want to admit it or not, ethnicity and skin color have played roles in paving or blocking the road to success for millions of people. White skin has been that 20-point advantage for centuries. All of this is not to say that it is impossible for people of color to succeed, because it is. But let’s be real: success is more possible in America when you are white...
...January morning in old Shanghai, and the sky is the color and density of oatmeal, feebly lit by an orange disc as vague as a watermark. In urban China in the 21st century, this is known as a sunny day. At an outdoor marketplace, a teeming tenement of narrow stalls and alleys, clamoring vendors peddle knockoff Rolex watches and Nike sneakers, pirated videos, severed ducks' heads and trussed pink pigs. Into this tumult strides a 2.13-meter alien from the imperial courts of the U.S. But he is no tourist...
...Since then, except for the mostly execrable "franchising" of sci-fi movies and TV series, comicbooks have done little exploring in the adaptation of other media. Of late it has been one publisher, the New York-based NBM (Nantier, Beall and Minoustchine) that has consistently published very fine, full color, hardcover literary adaptations by top comix artists. In the past few months they have produced three exceptionally well-done works: "The Yellow Jar," based on Japanese folk tales, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella, and an adaptation of Marcel Proust's immense "Remembrance...
...Japanese theater, Patrick Atangan's comix feel alive with Japanese high culture. When he's not showing off carefully arranged landscapes, Atangan gives us highly dynamic action sequences. Even when two characters are talking he charges the scene with visual energy. He does this by careful attention to exiting color patterns and vibrant "camera" angles, but mostly he creates action with the hands. When the fisherman and his wife are reunited we see only a close-up of their hands, with their distinctively chubby, curled fingers dancing with each other. Clearly referencing ancient Japanese theater's use of hand positions...
...integral part of an applicant’s personal background, policies that discriminate against a person, whether that person is white, black, brown or purple, are immoral and antiquated. It is time that we move past race and start assessing people based on their merit, not on their skin color...