{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"This Chinese American cartoonist forces us to face racist stereotypes","publication_date":"September 30, 2016","summary":"The first comic that cartoonist Gene Luen Yang ever bought was a two-in-one issue that featured a man made out of rocks and an intergalactic cyborg. He loved comics, especially the kind that featured space aliens. So he started making his own. He and a friend drew comics and sold them for 50 cents each....","author_name":"By Joshua Barajas","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2016\/09\/dccc7fd42e9d8d5d1259dfe7417f451a-AmericanBornChinese-37-e1475176330215-1024x586.jpg","thumbnail_height":586,"thumbnail_width":1024}