Gene Luen Yang Archives

Here is the blurb… Shang-Chi Gets His Ten Rings In The Marvel Comics As Well As The Film A new weapon that could rival the might of the Infinity Stones will emerge this May in SHANG-CHI #12! In this crucial issue, Shang-Chi's greatest enemies have gathered under his vengeful grandfather and in order to protect his bloodline, Shang-Chi[...]

As seen in last May's  DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration #1, Monkey Prince is a new series launching from Gene Luen Yang 楊謹倫 and Bernard Chang 張伯納 in February 2022, with a new twelve-issue limited series from DC Comics and just announced at DC FanDome Inspired by the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey[...]

Gene Luen Yang's acclaimed graphic novel American Born Chinese will become a TV series on Disney+ with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton directing and executive producing for 20th Television This will be Cretton's first TV series American Born Chinese was a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young[...]

Marvel's Voices: Identity #1 celebrates Asian superheroes and comics creators led by Gene Luen Yang, Greg Pak, Maurene Goo, and more lead an all-star lineup of Asian talent in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Marvel Voices: Identity #1 cover, Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is proud to announce that this summer will see the launch of[...]

Bleeding Cool featured a previous of the upcoming Batman/Superman comic by Gene Luen Yang, Ivan Reis and Danny Miki to show a variety of "what if?" worlds for the series, spinning out of Death Metal With the sketch art, showing parallel lives, as playing out on movie film reel, it seems to involve politicians and[...]

With Gene Luen Yang doing the double. Book of the Year: DRAGON HOOPS by Gene Luen Yang (First Second) Digital Book of the Year – THE NIB edited by Matt Bors (thenib.com) Best Children or Young Adult Book: Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru (DC Comics) Best Manga: WITCH HAT ATELIER by Kamome Shirahama (Kodansha[...]

Marvel has announced a new Shang-Chi series launching this June, to be written by Gene Luen Yang with art by Dike Ruan and Phillip Tan The New York Times took time out of its busy schedule of shilling for the DNC establishment to produce an EX-X-XCLUSIVE interview with Yang that also served to announce the[...]

Terrifics #25 by Gene Luen Yang and Dan Mora will be a 40-page choose-your-own-adventure comic, allowing readers to choose how the comic ends as The Terrifics' team hangs in the balance in a series of life-or-death struggles Hmm, perhaps they're taking a page from their own sordid history of letting readers decide whether Jason Todd[...]

We already knew that Jeff Lemire would be leaving the title, and it looks like DC has found a replacement in April as the acclaimed Gene Luen Yang, who contributed to the Terrifics Annual last year, will be taking over the title alongside artist Stephen Segovia, promising a turning point for the team. DC's solicitations were[...]

Given Gene Luen Yang's biography, I am led to believe it is at least an informed depiction of both. New Super-Man #20 and the Justice League of China art by Brent Peeples, Matt Santorelli, and Hi-Fi Brent Peeples's artwork is fairly good, and he especially plays well with the monsters that pop up in this comic[...]

The MacArthur Foundation announced the 2016 MacArthur Fellows awards today, commonly known as the "genius grants". And this year's class includes comic book creator Gene Luen Yang of American Born Chinese, Boxers & Saints, Avatar:The Last Airbender and New Super-Man. He and  22 other Fellows will receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 grant each for their exceptional creativity and potential for[...]

DC's Gold Book offering for Free Comic Book Day will be Divergence, playing off the title of Convergence. Previewing the launch of the Darkseid War, hence the cover, with Justice League by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok, the new Batman arc by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo and the already-mentioned Superman by Gene Luen Yang and John Romita[...]

Seagle , Si Spencer, John Paul Leon, Jeff Lemire, Will Morris, Fabio Moon and more. We mentioned Teddy Kristiansen working on "Fade" with Steven T Seagle. Now we understand that the creator list has been joined by Gene Luen Yang of American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints, making his DC Comics debut Also the DC debut for 2000AD writer[...]

Single day and three-day passes are still available. Signing appearance: Writer Gene Luen Yang revived Green Turtle, a comic book series from the 1940s into a graphic novel titled The Shadow Hero with artwork by Sonny Lieu Eastwind Books in Berkeley on Saturday, September 13 at 3 PM. Join Mike Grell, Steve Niles, Sergio Aragones, Josef "Joe"[...]

Svensson drinks Gatorade while writing for Bleeding Cool. Gene Luen Yang is a fantastically talented graphic novelist His "Boxers and Saints" duo of interlocking graphic novels were among the most critically acclaimed books last year Here was his spotlight solo panel, with guest star Scott "Understanding Comics" McCloud asking questions and steering the conversation along. The[...]