“Being an immigrant kid - your experience and your parents’ and your grandparents’ experiences are in three completely different worlds.” Gene Luen Yang is an award-winning cartoonist, storyteller, and teacher - whose been creating comics since the fifth grade. His 2006 graphic novel American Born Chinese will be a 2022 Disney+ TV series by Shang Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton. Two of Gene’s other two books - Dragon Hoops + Superman Smashes the Klan - won the 2020 Eisner (the Oscars for comics), and Raman’s reviewed them on his other podcast Quarantined Comics. Gene’s a former CS + Math teacher - who’s since gone on to work on some of the biggest name in pop culture and comics - including Avatar the Last AirBender, rebooting Shang Chi over @ Marvel Comics (before the hit movie), and having more than a few unique takes on DC’s Superman. Gene was named the Library of Congress’ fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and has also received a MacArthur Genius Grant. Gene advocates for the importance of reading diversely - and makes his kids finish all of their projects. Raman tried really hard not to fanboy over one of his personal heroes... LEARN ABOUT GENE LUEN YANG geneyang.com twitter.com/geneluenyang American Born Chinese: goodreads.com/book/show/118944.American_Born_Chinese Superman Smashes the Klan TRAILER: youtu.be/LQ5ID_k_iBA Dragon Hoops: goodreads.com/book/show/44280830-dragon-hoops MENTIONS COMIC BOOK: Cyclopedia Exotica goodreads.com/book/show/53317432-cyclopedia-exotica PERSON: Jason Shiga goodreads.com/author/show/469075.Jason_Shiga PERSON: Lark Pien goodreads.com/author/show/2679817.Lark_Pien PERSON: Derek Kirk Kim goodreads.com/author/show/150817.Derek_Kirk_Kim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices