Podcast / Sifu Mimi Chan

332. Gene Ha on his AAPI experience

Gene Ha is becoming a regular on the show! For AAPI Heritage Month, I wanted to share conversations with Asian Americans about their experience growing up in the US. Gene was kind of enough to share his childhood memories growing up in South Bend, Indiana.

331. Nicola Scott on Wonder Woman Historia, art and collaboration

Nicola Scott is the incredible artist who works on Iconic characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. She also worked with Kelly Sue DeConnick on Vol.3 of the Eisner Awarding winning series Wonder Woman HISTORIA. In addition she collaborates with my dear friend Greg Rucka on Black Magick. You’ve heard of that guy right? If not there are about 55 episodes to check out!

330. Cliff Chiang on comics, drawing and collaboration

Cliff Chiang is an Eisner award winning artist who has been working in the comic book industry for over 20 years. Cliff has worked on Paper Girls, Wonder Woman, Batman, and he most recently wrote, drew, colored and lettered Catwoman: Lonely City.

329. AAPI history bill, Caribbean travels and life

Thank you all for your patience. I know I missed 2 weeks of new episodes, but my hope is that you were able to check out some of the previous ones you may have missed. I mean there are over 300, and I am sure you haven’t heard ALL of them… have you?

In any case, just wanted to say thanks for hanging in there as my schedule has been challenging. Today I am sharing my life update and where we are in the AAPI history bill process.

328. Yuh Line Niou on the immigrant reality, politics and being a change maker

Yuh-Line Niou is a former New York State assembly member for the 65th district and an overall incredible human. I had the pleasure of speaking with Yuh-Line about her immigrant reality and experience growing up in small towns in Idaho, Oregon and Texas.

327. Dan John on rote memory, education and our tolerance for violence

Coach Dan John joins the show for the 12th time to discuss T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone philosophies on education. We also touch on Chat GPT, rote memory and our tolerance for violence.

326. Gene Ha on Wonder Woman Historia, AI and the spirit of art

Gene Ha is an award winning artist who worked on Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick. I am grateful Gene agreed to return to the show to discuss his collaboration with my friend KellySue and share his expertise on all things art

325. Love, death and not quite robots

The past month has brought a whirlwind of emotions. Does anyone remembers the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral? It demonstrates a bit of how I feel in terms of how quickly I’ve been switching emotional gears. Plus any opportunity to bring up a random 90s Hugh Grant Rom Coms is a plus. My good friend and Make Us Visible cofounder shared a WaPo article on a guide to feeling happier everyday.