Essay On American Born Chinese

How do you make your images to your books? I draw the images into my books myself. I usually start with only a pencil and draw the outlines on a paper. After the pencil work is done, I use black markers to make an overlayer on the drawing’s pencil parts. Sometimes I make the colours also with markers, but usually I move the drawing into a computer, and put the colors on the picture with some of the computer’s apps like picsart or pixlr express. Why did you make three different stories in American Born Chinese? This is a question that I get a lot. I wanted to make something different, but then that wasn’t enough, so I decided to put the stories together in the end and make them one story. Do many people get upset by the ending of …show more content…
I didn’t have much inspiration while working on the ending. When I got my inspiration I had to rush putting all of my ideas in the book. When I tell people this, they ask me was I proud of it, and I do think I’m proud of it, and it did go good, just as I wanted it to go. There are though people who send me emails or tell me how interesting, different or nice the ending was. Why didn’t you make the American Born Chinese a novel instead of a comic? When I started making and writing American Born Chinese, I knew right away that I wanted to make a comic. This was because I wanted to create the looks of the characters myself. It would have been hard to picture Chin-Kee for example with only text. That I myself have always enjoyed more reading comics than novels when I was younger, effected on my decision of doing a novel or a comic too. I knew that for some children it is so much more fun, and much easier to read a comic than a novel, so I knew with a comic I could share this story with as many people as I could. How do you feel when you read your own books?
While reading my own books my feelings usually change. It depends if