#chinese comic

[oceanandspring]

what if i offered you 44 pictures of swallowtail from daughter of a thousand faces?

[meiryen]

La concubina del Faraón

Bonus:

Bai Mo Tao

[kukuandkookie]

Don't Say You Love Me has me going insane so when I saw the raws for ch 64 I decided I'd freaking go ahead and translate/typeset it... 

(SERIOUSLY LIN YUTONG AND TAN/QIN WEIYUN ARE SO CUTE I'M GFMDKSGNFDGJDHSLFKS 🥹💞💞💞💖💖💖)

That being said, please support the official release on Bilibili if you can!! The creator deserves all the love 😭 

[mendely]

comic done for class assignment

[corpsentry]

pick your battles

[virtualsoup]

Beloved

[summercomfort]

in my pursuit of ever-increasingly niche comics, I drew a 13 page comic about Tape v Hurley, a court case about Chinese-American school segregation in 1885. The rest of the pages are after the readmore, as well as on AO3 here. More obsure Chinese American court case comics are there, as well.

Historical Notes

Mary and Joseph Tape were not born in America, but their names and identities were very much formed in America. Joseph Tape was born Jeu Dip in Guangdong, China, immigrated the America when he was twelve, and spent his teenage years working as a house servant in an Irish household. Mary arrived in America at the age of eleven, and was found and raised as Mary McGladery in a Protestant orphanage as the only Chinese child amongst ~80 children. Both Mary and Jeu spent their formative years amongst White Christian families, so when Jeu Dip and Mary married in 1875, little wonder that Jeu picked the English name of Joseph Tape -- Joseph to match with Mary, and the German last name Tape as a nod to his former name of Dip.

The Tape family lived about 14 blocks outside of Chinatown, in a primarily white neighborhood. They dressed in Western clothing, spoke English at home, and Mamie grew up playing with non-Chinese kids. Naturally, they wanted their children to attend the local elementary school, a mere 3 blocks from their home. The principal, Ms. Hurley, denied her entrance, claiming that she was “filthy and diseased.” At the time, there was no public school option for Chinese children -- the 1870 state law stipulated separate schools for “African and Indian children” only, not Chinese. The Tape family, with the help of the Chinese Six Companies, their church, and the Chinese consulate, decided to sue, claiming that the 1880 California school code guaranteed everyone a right to public education and that this was a violation of the 14th Amendment.

They won.

But this was 1885, three years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act and six years before Plessy v Ferguson. Regardless of what the California Supreme Court might decide, public sentiment was on the side of the San Francisco school district. Determined to keep out this “invasion of Mongol barbarism”, the California State Legislature passed a law permitting separate schools for Chinese children, which then allowed Principal Hurley to reject Mamie Tape once more.

While Mamie was rejected from the Spring Valley Elementary School for being Chinese, she also had a hard time fitting in to the Chinese public school. The Chinese merchants saw Western education as something primarily for boys. (Their girl children learned from their mothers at home.) Mamie, a girl dressed in Western clothes, would have stood out like a sore thumb. The final panel of the comic was based on a photo from three years later, and even then, Mamie was the only girl.

Places where I fudged the history: Frank, Mamie’s younger brother, was actually six years old and should have been more present in the comic, but I wante to keep the focus on Mamie and Mary. Also, Mamie had actually shown up to her first day of school in Western clothes. An earlier draft of the comic had a separate arc involving Mamie feeling rejected at school and Mary buying her some Chinese clothes, but that got too long and complicated.

Much of this was drawn from Mae Ngai’s book about the Tape family and their experiences as 2nd and 3rd generation Chinese Americans, titled “The Lucky Ones.”

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Here is Mary Tape's letter to the San Francisco School Board, 1885:

1769 Green Street. San Francisco, April 8, 1885. To the Board of Education - Dear Sirs: I see that you are going to make all sorts of excuses to keep my child out off the Public schools. Dear sirs, Will you please to tell me! Is it a disgrace to be Born a Chinese? Didn’t God make us all!!! What right have you to bar my children out of the school because she is a chinese Decend. They is no other worldly reason that you could keep her out, except that. I suppose, you all goes to churches on Sundays! Do you call that a Christian act to compell my little children to go so far to a school that is made in purpose for them. My children don’t dress like the other Chinese. They look just as phunny amongst them as the Chinese dress in Chinese look amongst you Caucasians. Besides, if I had any wish to send them to a chinese school I could have sent them two years ago without going to all this trouble. You have expended a lot of the Public money foolishly, all because ofa one poor little Child. Her playmates is all Caucasians ever since she could toddle around. If she is good enough to play with them! Then is she not good enough to be in the same room and studie with them? You had better come and see for yourselves. See if the Tape’s is not same as other Caucasians, except in features. It seems no matter how a Chinese may live and dress so long as you know they Chinese. Then they are hated as one. There is not any right or justice for them. You have seen my husband and child. You told him it wasn’t Mamie Tape you object to. If it were not Mamie Tape you object to, then why didn’t you let her attend the school nearest her home! Instead of first making one pre tense Then another pretense of some kind to keep her out? It seems to me Mr. Moulder has a grudge against this Eight-year-old Mamie Tape. I know they is no other child I mean Chinese child! care to go to your public Chinese school. May you Mr. Moulder, never be persecuted like the way you have persecuted little Mamie Tape. Mamie Tape will never attend any of the Chinese schools of your making! Never!!! I will let the world see sir What justice there is When it is govern by the Race prejudice men! Just because she is of the Chinese decend, not because she don’t dress like you because she does. Just because she is descended of Chinese parents I guess she is more of a American then a good many of you that is going to prewent her being Educated. Mrs. M. Tape

[nightwonder7]

What do you think about Arnold and the Puppets?

It's quite an interesting concept, I must say. The animation is really good, and there are some genuinely hilarious moments in it! I wonder if we'll get a season 2, and if so, I'd love to see more characters make a cameo!

Also the implication of Arnold and Frederick being related/connected is so wild to me fdhsjfsgfs

[qweenofurheart]

more timkon ft. height difference

[creaman]

Happy Chinese New Year!

[oceanandspring]

officially obsessed with daughter of a thousand faces by velinxi... i have so many thoughts about it...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

💙❤️Happy Holidays!❤️💙

[karinyecrafts]

happy 2024 everyone! may all y'all have a beautiful year of the dragon 🐉❤️ enjoy the comic! (inspired by this meme)

[jesncin]

Wanted to join in on @ratblazer's DTIYS challenge for Johnstantine's upcoming b'day! I'm doing a Hellblazer marathon read so the timing couldn't be any better~ this was really fun!

[kaiserouo]

traveler powder

[radioactivespiderblood]

Traditional Clothes for Batkids

DC should let Damian and Cass wear traditional clothes to galas/for formal wear in general. Like imagine Cass in a vintage qipao and Damian in shalwar kameez like:

I couldn't find any sufficiently cunty photos on men's Shalwar Kameez so you'll just have to pretend these are pictures of men. Also, these were the least AI generated looking images I could find.

Or both in Hanfu:

I mean Talia's mom IS from Shanghai folks, he IS Chinese!

Like, why WOULDN'T you want this?