From the Fall 2006 issue of de Maisonneuve Magazine, via CitizenShift, here's an excerpt from an awesome conversation between filmmaker Anne Marie Nakagawa and cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley ("Scott Pilgrim") about growing up half-Asian:
BLO: To me, growing up as a nerd was the big thing. It was only as a kid that I was ostracized for being Asian. I was ostracized 'cuz I was a loser. Being of an unusual race just augmented my ostracism.Read the whole thing. It's awesome. Click here for the pdf.AMN: [Laughs] They just thought you were a loser. You were really a winner!
BLO: [Laughs] This is probably too nerdy for you to recognize but... When I was a kid, I read these fantasy novels -- this is kinda how i fell on the road to nerdism -- these Dragonlance books. The main character is this guy named Tanis Half-Elven, and he's half elf. He's this guy who wanders the Earth because he doesn't fit in with the elves or the humans. Then he becomes the leader of this ragtag group. That was a big deal when I was a kid, because I identified with him and... I can't really explain. You're probably just rolling your eyes.
AMN: For the record, I'm not rolling my eyes.
