Gene Luen Yang
Gene Luen Yang
Gene Luen Yang is an American writer of graphic novels and comics. Until recently, he was the Director of Information Services and taught computer science at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, California and travels all over the world, speaking about graphic novels and comics at comic book conventions and universities, schools, and libraries. In 2012, Yang joined the faculty at Hamline University, as a part of the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adultsprogram...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 August 1973
CountryChina
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.
Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.
Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.
Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)
It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.
What is China but a people and their stories?
Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.
To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
'The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry.