Gene Luen Yang, Viktor Bogdanovic, and Richard Friend. DC, $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-7093-3
Perhaps the most honestly titled graphic effort of the past decade, this volume is exactly what it sounds like: a new Superman who happens to be from China. The art is crisp and the storytelling is lively enough, but once the reader is past the “What
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Gene Luen Yang, Author . First Second $12.95 (233p) ISBN 978-1-59643-152-2
As alienated kids go, Jin Wang is fairly run-of-the-mill: he eats lunch by himself in a corner of the schoolyard, gets picked on by bullies and jocks and develops a sweat-inducing crush on a pretty classmate. And, oh, yes, his parents are from...
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Gene Luen Yang, Author . SLG $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59362-183-4
This early work from the author of the acclaimed American Born Chinese
shows that Yang's work has matured significantly. What it does share with his later comics is a tendency toward nonstereotypical Asian-American lead characters. Featuring a
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Gene Luen Yang. First Second, $18.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-59643-359-5
With a superbly executed “diptych” of graphic novels, Yang (American Born Chinese) employs parallel storylines to represent two opposing Chinese experiences during the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the 20th century. Raised in an impoverished rural...
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Gene Luen Yang. First Second, $15.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-59643-689-3
In the companion to Boxers, Yang shifts focus to Four-Girl, a mistreated Chinese girl who decides to become a Christian despite the heavy cultural stigma it carries. Although her initial reason for converting is misguided (she’s mainly a fan of the...
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Gene Luen Yang. First, Second, $34.99 boxed set (512p) ISBN 9781596439245
Boxers reviewWith a superbly executed triptych of graphic novels, Yang (American Born Chinese) employs parallel storylines to represent two opposing Chinese experiences during the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the 20th century. Raised in an...
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Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham, Roaring Brook/First Second, $15.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-59643-235-2
Yang, writer-artist of National Book Award finalist American Born Chinese, writes this magical-realist tale of Asian-American parental pressure and video-game escape, leaving the art to up-and-comer Pham. Dennis Ouyang struggles with the burden of...
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Gene Luen Yang, John Romita, Jr., and Klaus Janson. DC, $22.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4012-5981-5
Two-time National Book Award–finalist Yang (American Born Chinese) makes his superhero debut with superstar artists Romita (Kick-Ass) and Janson (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns). After Superman discovers a new “solar flare” superpower that...
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Gene Luen Yang, illus. by Mike Holmes. First Second, $9.99 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-62672-075-6
Twelve-year-old Hopper can’t help but notice that there’s something strange about her new school; the spooky architecture, leafless trees, and robotic birds with too many eyes allude to a mystery hiding just beneath the surface at Stately Academy....
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Gene Luen Yang, illus. by Sonny Liew. First Second, $17.99 paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-59643-6978
Yang further establishes himself as one of YA’s leading voices on the Chinese-American experience by inventing a backstory for a forgotten comic-book character who was arguably the first Asian superhero. As explained in a postscript, the Green...
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Gene Luen Yang, Author, Derek Kirk Kim, Illustrator . Roaring Brook/First Second $16.95 (170p) ISBN 978-1-59643-156-0
This collaboration between multiple-award winners Yang (American Born Chinese
) and Kim (Same Difference and Other Stories
) is an eagerly awaited event that actually pays off. Yang writes and Kim illustrates in a medley of different styles united...
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Gene Luen Yang. First Second, $24.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-62672-079-4
As a comic book enthusiast and graphic novelist, Printz Medalist Yang has always been more partial to superheroes than to sports. But in 2014, as a teacher at a Catholic high school in Oakland, Calif., Yang is drawn to a story about the school’s...
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Gene Luen Yang, illus. by Gurihiru. DC Comics, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-77950-421-0
When the Chinese Lee family moves from Chinatown to the Metropolis suburbs in 1946, siblings Roberta and Tommy face overt and subtle racism as they settle into their new community. While Tommy joins a local baseball team and uses self-deprecating...
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Gene Luen Yang, illus. by LeUyen Pham. First Second, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-62672-810-3; $17.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-90826-1
A Vietnamese American teen at a romantic crossroads must decide whether it’s worth keeping her heart safe by giving up on love in this lightly fantastical, heartwarming graphic novel from Yang (American Born Chinese) and Pham (the Princess in Black...
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