Asian Pacific Arts has published a meaty article in which "American Born Chinese" writer and illustrator Gene Yang plugs comics as an art form, talks up his fellow Asian American comics creators, and drops tantalizing hints about what's next on the docket. Check it out:

Currently, Gene Yang is writing and illustrating a comic book about the Boxer Rebellion, a Chinese uprising at the turn of the century in 1900. "There was a paragraph in your World History textbook when you were in ninth grade, and that's probably all many people know about it," says Yang," but it's a big, big thing. It was the first war of the 20th century, even though it's not officially called a war. It's officially called a rebellion."