Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. “American Born Chinese”, his first graphic novel from First Second Books, was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as the winner of the Printz Award and an Eisner Award. He has written for the hit comics “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “Superman”. Gene lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Superhero, Immigrant, and RefugeeSUPERMAN WASN'T ALWAYS the archetypal defender of "truth, justice, and the American way" when Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first introduced him in Action Comics #1 in 1938.
Love CreatesSEVERAL YEARS AGO, I brought our church's worship team to the home studio of a good friend and jazz fusion artist who's a part of our church.
