Re: Asian Americans as Leading Characters in Strips

On Jun 15, 12:09 am, t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ted Nolan <Ted.Nolan>)
wrote:
In article <1181871193.079792.69...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
D. D. Degg <ddd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"D. D. Degg" wrote:
http://www.unitedfeatures.com/ufs/news/20070611secretasianman.pdf
Here UFS claims that this is "the first-ever nationally syndicated
comic strip featuring an Asian American leading character."

But how can they ignore the "The Legend of Bruce Lee",
http://penandbrush.net/01salty/brucelee.html
nationally syndicated by the L.A.Times Syndicate from 1982 -83?

Okay, a couple more.

In the early thirties Bell Syndicate distributed
"Fu Manchu" by Leo O'Mealia from 1931 - 33.
http://www.njedge.net/~knapp/OMealia.htm

Later that same decade McNaught Syndicate
put "Charlie Chan" by Alfred Andriola in
newspapers nation-wide 1938 -1942.
http://charliechanfamily.tripod.com/dailycomicsarchive/

While it would be a stretch to call such people as
Connie in "Terry and the Pirates" or Ming the Merciless
leading characters, I do think it could be successfully
argued that the Dragon Lady in the 1990s revival of
"Terry and the Pirates" was one of the leading characters.

I think Charlie Chan was Hawaiian, but none of those others
would be Asian Americans, would they? Or did Bruce Lee
become a citizen in the Green Hornet era?

I don't know about the comic strip Bruce Lee. But in real life Lee,
although raised in Hong Kong, was born in San Francisco, and thus was
a U.S. citizen by birth.

Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@xxxxxxxxxxx

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