![]() ![]() I've always been interested in Americana, or the nostalgic fiction of America (my first book is on driving Route 66) and especially the process of making these myths. In the process of doing this, I got really engrossed in the evolution of the Paul Bunyan myths. I have a custom Google Map that logs the location of Paul Bunyan statues in the continental United States (defined as an oversized lumberjack statue), and I've visited over twenty of them, but I did not win the competition. Shing Yin Khor: I got really into the Paul Bunyan mythos when a friend and I started a silly competition to visit as many Paul Bunyan statues as we could in two years. Shing, what is your own connection with American tall tales and the legend of Paul Bunyan in particular? RELATED: Friday Foster Comic Strip Gets Hardcover Collection From ABLAZE ![]() ![]() In an exclusive interview with CBR, Kohr details the extensive research they did about the legend of Paul Bunyan and 19th-century logging camps in America, their art style and coloring choices for the book and the story's commentary on the nature of storytelling. ![]()
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