Angry Little Girls

Angry Little Girls is a webcomic by Lela Lee. The comic was launched by 2000 and is based on Lee's animated series, Angry Little Asian Girl. It challenges gender and racial stereotypes. The main character is six-year-old Kim, an angry Korean American girl. History Creation The comic is written by Lela Lee, a Korean American. Lee, the youngest of four girls, is also an actor who was a main character on the TV series Tremors and appeared in shows such as Friends, Scrubs, and Charmed. As of 2015 she was living in Los Angeles. When Lee was a student at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, she visited Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. She walked out angered by a series of ethnic jabs and drew her own animations that night, using Crayola markers and then video-editing equipment at school to complete her first episode. These became the animated series Angry Little Asian Girl. However, a Los Angeles Times article gives a different origin story: that general stress from family and study pressure led to her using drawing as an escape, then later a friend encouraged her to compile the drawings into a short video.