UCLA gender studies professor reading three D+Q books

Q: What are you reading right now?

A: I just got a shipment yesterday of three comic books from Drawn and Quarterly, a comic book publisher. One is called Moms by Yeong-shin Ma, which is about Korean moms. The second one is Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna, about the Khmer Rouge and the deaths and suffering that follow, and the third one is Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki. I probably started reading comics as soon as I started reading. Comics were so common in Korea. I grew up surrounded by hundreds of different story lines unfolding. The comic books were the size of phone books. I don’t think I paid attention to where one began and one ended; in some ways, it just all blended in together, an assemblage of stories.