PanelxPanel #56 - The Good Asian

PanelxPanel is the Eisner Award-winning digital magazine celebrating the medium of comics. It’s edited by Tiffany Babb and Strip Panel Naked host Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and features a rotating set of critics, fans, and professionals.

This issue is features The Good Asian, by Pornsak Pichetshote, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Lee Loughridge and Jeff Powell, published by Image Comics. We interview the team about creating the series, accompanied with a series of essays exploring facets of the comic.

A true celebration of the medium with every issue, looking at all the elements that make comics an interesting art form and a great place to tell visual stories. This is a magazine that cares about comics.

Some of this issue's contents:

• An interview with Pichetshote, Tefenkgi, Loughridge and Powell on creating The Good Asian.
• Essays on the role of noir, Asian stereotypes in fiction, the dichotomy of Edison Hark, famous noir detectives and more.
• A short comic by Chris O'Halloran & Elena Gogou.
• An interview with Skottie Young, Dean Rankine, Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, on their work with I Hate Fairyland.
• Chad Nevett on The Horrorist.
• Ari Bard with a Final Thoughts on Vinyl.Available now.