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Liu Yang's East Meets West: similar my China comics? Discuss.

I like yours better, because they feel specific to actual experiences, rather than broad generalizations. But I'm kinda "eh" about generalizations about the "east" and "west" anyway. Also, yours are cuter :3

Hee. She definitely takes a very different approach to the visuals, making them look more like infographics, which makes them seem more direct and all-emcompassing, which I'm... ambivalent about.

No!

...*runs away*

For some reason I picture you doing this as Jack from Gunnerkrigg.

I don't think they're similar at all. For one, their examples feel waay too simplified for the sake of theme and design sometimes to the degree of being forced and stereotypical. Also I think your China comics are much more about life in China (with Western narration) rather than "white people drive like this, and black people drive like this!"

Those are very reductive and sometimes just wrong. Yours are both more accurate and more expansive: showing the complexity of day-to-day life.

Like everyone else here, I think they're pretty different. Your comics seem to be about looking at the similarities and differences between China and the US via the experiences of people who've been to both places (mostly, you). That sort of thing can help break down generalizations, especially because you sometimes talk about possible reasons for the differences. The impression I get from Liu Yang's pictures is that every difference is just "culture." Also, it's one thing to compare your experiences in China and the US, it's another to say "the entire west is like this and the entire east is like this."

Also, yours are comics, the other things aren't really. Looking at them makes me think I'm in a business consultant's presentation for a company that wants to expand into China.

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