Yeh said he was going to be in the area anyway as he was planning to see folk singer Natalie Merchant at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga for a show that had been rescheduled from September. He was …
SANTA CRUZ — Walk into any bookstore or library, and you will be guaranteed to find a plethora of graphic novels, maybe even entire sections dedicated to them. The combination of text and vivid imagery to tell long-form stories is a very popular format for both telling original stories and adapting comics and pre-existing books.
Yeh has been drawing and painting since he was 2, a hobby encouraged by his engineer father who would frequently bring home computer paper from work as well as pencils, paints and crayons. This inspired Yeh to start his own publishing company called Eastwind Studios/Fragments West, and he joined the staff of California State University Long Beach’s student newspaper The Daily 49er and then launched the alternative paper Uncle Jam, where he interviewed people such as French cartoonist Jean Giraud and Mad Magazine creator Harvey Kurtzman.
Yeh is pleased about the enduring popularity of graphic novels, especially given how long it took for them to catch on. When Warner Bros. announced it would be producing a “Superman” movie in 1975, Siegel issued a nine-page press release denouncing the film, detailing how he and Shuster were denied credit and cheated out of royalties and requested an interview to tell his story. The press release was reportedly sent out to thousands of publications, but only Yeh responded. At the time, he was publishing an arts newspaper called Cobblestone, which did its typesetting at the Marina News offices in Long Beach.
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