Secret Identities
Subtitle: The Asian American Superhero Anthology
By: edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma.
Contributors: Jeff Yang (Editor); Parry Shen (Editor); Keith Chow (Editor); Jerry Ma (Editor)
Publisher: New Press
Published: April 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781595583987
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States; Asian Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc; Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
Genres: Comic books, strips, etc.
Description: There's this guy we know -- quiet, unassuming, 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 to the world...

For many Asian Americans, this chronicle sounds familiar because many of us have lived it. But it also happens to be the tale of mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, better known 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 and writers -- and fans.

But there's one place where Asians are still underrepresented in comics: between the four-color covers themselves. That's why, in Secret Identities, top Asian American writers, artists, and comics professionals have come together to create twenty-six original stories centered around Asian American superheroes -- stories set in a shadow history of our country, exploring ordinary Asian American life from a decidedly extraordinary perspective.

Entertaining, enlightening, and more than a little provocative, Secret Identities blends action, satire, and thoughtful commentary into a groundbreaking anthology about a community too often overlooked by the cultural mainstream.
Table of contents: title: Driving Steel, by Jeff Yang, Benton Jew; title: S.A.M. Meets Larry Hama, by Tak Toyoshima; label: Section 1
title: War and Remembrance, by Parry Shen, Alexander Tarampi; title: 9066, by Jonathan Tsuei, Jerry Ma; title: Heroes Without a Country, by Daniel Jai Lee, Vince Sunico; title: Gaman, by Jamie Ford, Alexander Tarampi; title: The Hibakusha, by Parry Shen, Glenn Urieta; title: Re-Directing Comics: Greg Pak, by Keith Chow, A.L. Baroza; title: The Citizen, by Greg Pak, Bernard Chang; title: Sidekicks: Gene Yang & Michael Kang, by Keith Chow, A.L. Baroza; title: The Blue Scorpion and Chung, by Gene Yang, Sonny Liew; title: James, by Michael Kang, Erwin Haya; label: Section 2
title: When Worlds Collide, by Keith Chow, Chi-Yun Lau; title: Now There's Something: Greg LaRocque, by Keith Chow, Alexander Shen; title: Trinity, by Greg LaRocque; title: No Exit, by Naeem Mohaiemen, Glenn Urieta; title: S.O.S., by Tanuj Chopra, Alex Joon Kim; title: The Wallpasser, by Clarence Coo, Jerry Ma; label: Section 3
title: Girl Power, by Kripa Joshi; title: You Are What You Eat, by Lynn Chen, Paul Wei; title: Sampler, by Jimmy Aquino, Erwin Haya; title: Learn to Share, by Keiko Agena, Ming Doyle; title: A Day at CostumeCo, by Jeff Yang, A.L. Baroza; title: Supergrrrls, by Hellen Jo; label: Section 4
title: Many Masks, by Jason Sperber, Chi-Yun Lau; title: Agent Orange, by Dustin Tri Nguyen, Dustin Nguyen; title: Gaze, by Sung Kang, Billy Tan, Walden Wong, Sean Ellery; title: Flight, by Ian Kim, Jeff Yang; title: Shine, by Leonardo Nam, Anthony Tan, Ruben De Vela; title: Jia, by Kelly Hu, Mark Allen, Cliff Chiang; title: Cataclysm, by Yul Kwon, Deodato Pangandoyon; title: Go, by Kazu Kibuishi; title: Parallel Penny, by Anthony Wu; label: Section 5
title: Ordinary Heroes, by Raymond Sohn; title: Just Ordinary, by Nick Huang, Alexander Shen; title: Twilight, by Ted Chung, Anuj Shrestha; title: David Kim, by John Kuramoto, Christine Norrie; title: Meet Joe, by Koji Steven Sakai, John Franzese; title: On the Third Day, by Johann Choi; title: Long, by Martin Hsu; title: Justified, by Ken Wong, Tiffanie Hwang; label: Section 6
title: From Headline to Hero, by Parry Shen, Jeremy Arambulo; title: 16 Miles, by Parry Shen, Sarah Sapang; title: Taking Back Troy, by Jeff Yang, Francis Tsai; title: Peril, by Keith Chow, Jef Castro; title: Epilogue, by Jeff Yang, Jef Castro