Gene Luen Yang

I chatted with Gene Luen Yang, the brilliant author of American Born Chinese, and Melvin Mar, a producer involved in the adaptation process.

American Born Chinese follows Jin Wong navigating through high school as he gets caught in a quest to save Heaven with Sun Wukong’s son.

Given his experience in writing stories about racial struggles and understanding identity, Gene Luen Yang is the perfect person to write this kind of story starring Superman, quite possibly the world’s most powerful immigrant.

Superman will fight against the Ku Klux Klan this fall in Superman Smashes the Klan, by author Gene Luen Yang and artists Gurihiru. Yang is known for his graphic novel…