Gene Luen Yang
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Sep 28, 2026
KoryHOST
the 1940s in America, but also, like, how much this is still true today.
KoryHOST
I mean, Gene Luen Yang is the writer of this, and he's got a couple of great comics.
KoryHOST
American Born Chinese, which I don't remember if I talked about here, but I did read that, and that was great, too.
KoryHOST
But he can really get into, like, how much... racism uh affects us as people it affects the world around us in negative ways but also how much like once white people get over themselves uh we can really do a lot together uh so those were a couple of comics like i've been reading things asking for solve everything in superman smash the clan uh chris scoopy what do you have worth
Kyle KellamsHOST
The inaugural Joyful Teaching Conference is open to teachers and future teachers.
Kyle KellamsHOST
Guest speakers include graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, Professor Chris Schulte from the University of Arkansas School of Art, and artist, author, and storyteller Zeke Pena.
Kyle KellamsHOST
Zeke came to the Anthony and Susan Hoy News Studio this week, along with Hung Pham, Director for the Center for Children and Youth at the U of A, and Chris Gehring, Professor of English Education at the University of Arkansas.
Kyle KellamsHOST
Chris says the conference's origin story... can be traced back to a book he co-wrote with Holly Riesco, Meg Grizzle, and Katie Hill called Joyful Literacies in Secondary Language Arts.
Kyle KellamsHOST
You'll have speakers?
Hung PhamGUEST
Yes.
Hung PhamGUEST
So two of our sort of highlight speakers, one is the graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang and also local illustrator and author Zeke Pena.
Kyle KellamsHOST
Zeke Pena is with us.
JonathanHOST
This is canon.
JonathanHOST
Interestingly, though, with this one, we've had comics from Gene Luen Yang, Faith Erin Hicks.
JonathanHOST
Turf Wars is written by Michael Dante DiMartino.
JonathanHOST
So, this is...
JonathanHOST
This is different.
JonathanHOST
You're probably a little bit better suited to discuss some of the finer points of this.
JonathanHOST
The artwork that we have seen so far in the Avatar comics, specifically the ones that we read from Guri Hiro and Gene Luen Yang, the art was very similar to the animated show.
JonathanHOST
I don't know if that's because they were intentionally trying to make it like the animated show or if they were chosen to do the art specifically because their style was already like the animated show.
Kate LamphierPANELIST
Anyway, um, There's an impressive list of creators who are paired up with people to tell their stories for this book.
Kate LamphierPANELIST
So like a short list of examples is like Greg Pak, Matt Fraction, Gene Luen Yang, Brian Michael Bendis.
Kate LamphierPANELIST
That's just a few people.
Kate LamphierPANELIST
There's like a lot of volunteers on this project and they like...
Kate LamphierPANELIST
did a nice job of adapting But I wanted to highlight a couple of stories just so you get a sense of what's in here.
Kate LamphierPANELIST
I read my favorite story might have been A Community of Misfits by Tara and A.B. McIntosh.
Kate LamphierPANELIST
And then they worked with Gene Luen Yang on writing, Thien Pham on art, and then Brianna Lowenstein.
Kate LamphierPANELIST
lewin some on art and they these two two women were like running an animal shelter as their job and and they like rushed to their animal shelter once they could once they could get through um after the storm and like the animal shelter was mostly fine thankfully um but they like helped rescue neighbors pets they received a whole bunch of donations from the community like you saw like truckloads of stuff coming in And they focused on one story where they had to take an ATV that somebody like volunteered and five and like three other people.
LeUyen PhamGUEST
But no, I had been working with Mark Siegel over at First Second for Macmillan Books.
LeUyen PhamGUEST
And we were finishing up my latest project with Gene Luen Yang, Lunar New Year Love Story, which came out a couple of years ago.
LeUyen PhamGUEST
And I was trying to finish that one up.
LeUyen PhamGUEST
It was also on a horrible deadline.
Lark PienGUEST
You know, I was just like, what are you talking about? So from there, there was a kind of a collective or a small community of cartoonists at the time.
Lark PienGUEST
And he and another person, Greg Espinoza, who hosted these meetings, they introduced me to Derek Kirk Kim, Gene Yang, Jesse Hamm.
Lark PienGUEST
Brent Kirk, who was Derek's brother.
Lark PienGUEST
And who am I missing? Later on, I met Jason Shiga.
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Lark PienGUEST
Yeah.
Lark PienGUEST
All right.
Lark PienGUEST
So American Born Chinese was first a mini comic in black and white that Gene Yang had made.
Lark PienGUEST
And he did it in a series.
Brian McDonaldHOST
Oh, yeah.
Brian McDonaldHOST
Gene Luen Yang, who his most famous book, I think, is American Born Chinese, which is a graphic novel.
Brian McDonaldHOST
But he's done a ton of stuff.
Brian McDonaldHOST
And I can't remember his title.