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New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei is a graphic novel anthology published in 2017 by SI Universe Media in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum related to its exhibition on the life and career of George Takei.
Portions of this graphic novel written by Jeff Yang and illustrated by Jamie Noguchi were also published in comic book format as Excelsior: The Many Lives of George Takei.
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- From the back cover
- Over the first eight decades of his life, George Takei went from seeing the world through barbed wire fences as an incarcerated Japanese American at Tule Lake, to starring as one of the first regular Asian American characters on TV in a show that broke boundaries of color and representation, to helping reshape society through his activism and civic leadership – including redefining the very nature of the institution of marriage with his advocacy of LGBT marriage equality – before developing the first Broadway musical created, directed by and starring Asian Americans, and then emerging with an unexpected new chapter in life as one of the most beloved and influential personalities on the burgeoning landscape of social media.
- Published as a companion to the Japanese American National Museum's exhibition of the same name, New Frontiers uses Takei's incredible journey as a launching pad for the imaginations of a breathtaking array of diverse creators – Asian, black, Hispanic and Native American; lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans – telling original stories about incarceration and exclusion, representation and resistance, the digital world and the struggle in the streets.
- New Frontiers was edited by Jeff Yang and Keith Chow, two of the editors behind the groundbreaking Asian American anthologies Secret Identities and Shattered. Notable contributors include Greg Pak (Totally Awesome Hulk), Shawn Martinbrough (Batman: Detective Comics), Ming Doyle (Constantine), David F. Walker (Power Man and Iron Fist), Jeffrey Veregge (Black Panther), Melanie Tingdahl (Lumberjanes), Chris Visions (Dead Letters), Vince Hernandez (Fathom), Sarah Kuhn (Heroine Complex), Brandon Easton (Marvel's Agent Carter). Christine Norrie (Black Canary Wedding Album), Edgardo Miranda-Rodrigues (La Borinqueña), Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet), Lisa Yee (DC Super Hero Girls), Lewis Tan (Marvel's Iron Fist), LaToya Morgan (AMC's Into the Badlands), Reiko Aylesworth (Fox's 24) and indie standouts like Arielle Jovellanos, Trungles, Yumi Sakagawa, Ronin Ha, and MariNaomi.