In a time of persistent hate crimes against Asian Americans, the parallels are clear - and intended, Dhaliwal says. This particular Cyclops is Etna, one of the characters Dhaliwal follows through a series of short comics that offer an intimate look at how Cyclopes live and work among the two-eyed majority.
Blegh! What a dull way to learn about a minority.”
She’s explaining why her second graphic novel, “ Cyclopedia Exotica,” begins with a rupture of the fourth wall: a page of information about the Cyclops, “an exotic subspecies of archaic humans,” suddenly interrupted by one of their kind looking up from the page to address the reader directly. “I thought there was something interesting about studying a minority versus being a minority,” Aminder Dhaliwal says.
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