‘Mapping Myself onto a Vine or a Fish’ (opens in new tab)

Leise Hook is a cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up in Virginia and Michigan, and previously worked in art museums in New York and Beijing. Her cartoons appear in The New Yorker and elsewhere, and she has just published a graphic memoir, Names and Faces, “examining the in-betweenness of being mixed-race.” She spoke to ChinaFile’s Jeremy Goldkorn in April. This is an abridged, lightly edited transcript of their conversation. Jeremy Goldkorn: Names and Faces g...