Lela Lee created the short video "angry little asian girl, the first day of school" her second year (1994) while studying rhetoric at UC Berkeley. After several years, she revisited the project with additional episodes, and it was shown at animation festivals. Inspired, Lela Lee decided to transform her character into a comic and years later, Deborah, Wanda, Maria, Xyla, Pat, Patsy Pup, Percy Cat, and Chuy the Travelin' Chicken grace her weekly online comic for a dedicated following. Though these characters, Lela takes a hilarious, angry and heartfelt look at "What kind of angry are you?" touching on all types of modern angst.
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From Publishers Weekly
Lee created Kim, the angry little Asian girl, for a brief cartoon that was a response to insulting Asian characters in other cartoons. In this collection of her weekly strip, she expands the idea to include a bunch of girls of different races. The book aims for wry humor and occasionally achieves it, as when Xyla, the gloomy girl, says, "The thought of suicide is what keeps me alive." But actual laughs are rare. Lee's minimal drawing style recalls Peanuts, Life in Hell and South Park, and she tries to emulate their tone. Like Peanuts, she gives her child characters adult neuroses, cynical worldviews and a touch of sadness. But her plain approach never reaches that strip's subtlety. Nor does her satire come close to Life in Hell, which at its best was relentless about the state of love, work and childhood in the modern world. Instead, we have a trifle that seems too timid to say much about anything, ironically packaged with a hard cover and heavy, full-color glossy pages. (Apr.)
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What if Peanuts was for grown-ups with attitude? Angry Little Girls revels in sarcastic humor in a collection of strips that show that life isn't always nice. The characters, drawn with less detail than Schulz used in Peanuts (think dilbert and get simpler), lampoon cliches with humor and finesse. If there is no continuing story linking the strips, the characters embody all the stereotypes any strip could accommodate, such as angry girl Kim, bored princess Deborah, and gloomy Xyla. Lee's art is cute as well as simple, a send-up of kiddy-book style, and the strip format allows the characters to be as adult or childish as the jokes require. Although Lee is only poking fun, the humor is at times not very politically correct, so perhaps the faint of heart and easily miffed should be warned. Oh, and play the fun bonus--an angry quiz. Tina Coleman
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Asian Cuteness,
By Joe Joe "nygingin" (Astoria, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Angry Little Girls (Hardcover)
When I saw a news program featuring Lela Lee last year, she was trying to get the strip published, but was turned down by every syndicate. I felt her anguish... Then she got this book published finally!! Great! I liked the priting and the colors... all resembling a children's book almost. But be warned, it's not PC at all, and there are curse words in it!
The strips are adorable, but lacking some "punch." It's kind of "gently" angry. I'd like to see Lela take these characters further, and evoke more empathy from the readers. I liked it when the character Kim says "I have no friend," and her mother says, "You Ugly, that why you have no friend." Ha ha... Sounds a lot like Margaret Cho's mother. The drawing style is minimalistic, that's why the colors play up so importantly. Kim reminded me of Chibi-Maruko, a popular cartoon character, from Japan in the 80's.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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hysterical!,
By little heidi "independent, empathic, goofy" (here . now) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Angry Little Girls (Hardcover)
She has a fun website: http://www.angrylittlegirls.com and you can sign up for a free e-mail address, like [...]. So funny! I love this book b/c it really addresses the random anti-asian feeling in the "where are you from? no really, where are you from?" comments I always receive. Also, the mom is just like mine. spot on crazy asian mom. hooray!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Angry Little Girls (Hardcover)
fresh, colorful, disturbing, funny. ALL you'd want in a comic book. a little vulgar, though, for me. by the end, the swearing gets a bit dull.
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