Gene Luen Yang Archives

Review – Superman Smashes the Klan #3: Immigrants United

February 19, 2020February 18, 2020Ray Goldfield

As the Metropolis Klan gets their hands on a deadly weapon, Superman must confront his mysterious past to save the city’s future.

Review – Superman Smashes the Klan #2: Stand Up To Hate

December 18, 2019December 17, 2019Ray Goldfield

Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru’s story of Chinese-American kids teaming up with DC’s greatest hero against a real-world evil returns, as the threat to Metropolis escalates.

Review – The Terrifics #19: Bizarro the Luddite

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019Ray Goldfield

Things go sideways on Bizarro World, and Bizarro has an axe to grind againt Mister Terrific.

Review – The Terrifics #16: Dangers of Biblical Proportions

May 22, 2019May 21, 2019Ray Goldfield

The Terrifics are faced with a cybernetic version of the Ten Plagues as their mysterious new enemy escalates their war.

Review – The Terrifics #15: A Terrific New Beginning?

April 24, 2019April 23, 2019Ray Goldfield

Gene Luen Yang jumps onto the DCU’s most offbeat team book, as Mr. and Ms. Terrific have an awkward reunion.

Review – The Terrifics Annual #1: Trio of Tales

October 31, 2018October 31, 2018Ray Goldfield

Three guest creative teams tell lost stories of the DCU’s weirdest super-team.

Gene Luen Yang Challenges Kids to Read Without Walls

April 26, 2017May 5, 2020Jamie Greene

Gene Luen Yang’s Reading Without Walls initiative is a three-pronged reading challenge meant to encourage kids to break out of their comfort zones and read something they might not normally try.

GBBP 126: Gene Luen Yang

April 25, 2017Jamie Greene

On this episode, we talk to Gene Luen Yang about his Reading Without Walls initiative, getting more kids and families into libraries, writing outside of your lived experiences, working through rejection, and combating gendered labels and stereotypes when it comes to books.

DC This Week – The Justice League of Diversity

February 9, 2017Ray Goldfield

Justice League of America Rebirth #1 and Batman: Detective Comics spotlight what’s great about this new wave at DC.

DC This Week – Crossover Power!

January 12, 2017Ray Goldfield

his week, the Justice League is busy fighting with everyone! Well, not quite everyone, but, yes, the Power Rangers and the Suicide Squad, though not at the same time. Vixen returns as Steve Orlando gathers his Justice Leaguers, and Year 1 in Wonder Woman concludes spectacularly.

Happy 10th Birthday, ‘American Born Chinese’!

September 27, 2016Jonathan H. Liu1

10 years ago, a new publishing company known as First Second Books published a comic book called ‘American Born Chinese’ by Gene Luen Yang. Since then, First Second and Yang have both continued to create amazing comics and rack up a lot of achievements.

DC This Week – ‘Nightwing’ Comes Back Strong

July 14, 2016Ray Goldfield

‘Nightwing’ debuts strong and ‘Flash’ continues to establish itself as one of DC’s best new books. Meanwhile, dueling Wonder Woman origins!

The New 52 Superman and Green Arrow: Missed Opportunities

March 18, 2016Corrina Lawson

The reimagination of Green Arrow and Superman for the modern day has been, overall, a failure.

Stack Overflow: Celebrating 10 Years of First Second Books

March 14, 2016Jamie Greene

To celebrate their 10th anniversary, we present to you our list of Essential First Second books. I tried to do the impossible–choose one title from each year–and I was mostly able to do just that (with the exception of a couple ties).

Black Canary's Space-Time Sound Warp

January 27, 2016Corrina Lawson

Black Canary is killer, Dick Grayson is fun and sexy, Omega Men has it’s best issue yet, plus reviews on all the DC Comics to come out this week.

'Secret Coders' — A Comic With a Mystery and Programming

January 19, 2016James Floyd Kelly1

If you’ve got a young student who is showing an interest in programming, the key is to encourage but not overwhelm. Sometimes you need to sneak something educational in under the radar, right?

Bounded Enthusiasm #15: Gene Luen Yang, Reading Ambassador

January 12, 2016Jonathan H. Liu

For today’s Bounded Enthusiasm episode, I interviewed Gene Luen Yang, one of my favorite graphic novelists, who was just appointed the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.

Learn Computer Science Concepts With This New Graphic Novel

October 1, 2015December 14, 2017Ariane Coffin

There’s a brand new graphic novel on the market this week, and it merges fiction, programming, puzzles, and a big mystery!

5 Questions With a 5-Year-Old: One Year Later

April 1, 2015James Floyd Kelly

A look back at the past year of 5 Questions with a 5-Year-Old, including all 29 interviews, lessons learned, and where we’re going from here.

Bounded Enthusiasm #4: Gene Yang and Sonny Liew on The Shadow Hero

July 15, 2014Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s episode of Bounded Enthusiasm is a double interview with Gene Yang and Sonny Liew, author and illustrator (respectively) of The Shadow Hero, a new comic book just out this month from First Second Books. It’s a new origin story for an obscure WWII-era superhero named the Green Turtle, created by a Chinese-American artist. If the rumors are true, the Green Turtle is the first Asian-American superhero.

Gene Luen Yang Talks About The Shadow Hero

June 26, 2014December 14, 2017Rebecca Angel

Check out GeekMom Rebecca’s new interview with the author of The Shadow Hero.

Wrapping Up Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

May 28, 2014December 14, 2017Jonathan H. Liu

Did you know that May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month? I didn’t until about halfway through the month, but, hey, now that it’s almost over here are a couple fun ways to celebrate with your kids.

Everyone Should Meet The Shadow Hero

May 15, 2014December 14, 2017Rebecca Angel1

The Shadow Hero is a graphic novel with ties to the history of comics, racism, and the duality of first generation Americans, in an entertaining format that young YA and up will enjoy.

Wordstock Weekend Recap

October 8, 2013Jonathan H. Liu

Well, the Wordstock Book Festival is now over, and I had a fun (and exhausting) time. I was often bouncing back and forth between two or three panels because there were simply so many authors and cartoonists and books that I was curious about. Here’s a whirlwind recap of some of my favorite things from the weekend.

Serious Comics, Part 4: Avoiding the Subject

July 7, 2013Jonathan H. Liu2

There are few things that get people riled up more quickly than politics and religion—but as it turns out there are plenty of comics that deal with the two. They may not be the best topics for dinner conversation, but they have certainly inspired some great comics.

2 Previews From First Second Books

January 31, 2013Jonathan H. Liu

I’m pretty excited about these two upcoming titles from First Second Books

Teen Comics Workshop at SDCC

July 27, 2011December 16, 2017Melissa Wiley1

My sixteen-year-old daughter was keen to attend a manga-drawing workshop at SDCC. We arrived at the appointed room nearly an hour early, having been unable to get into the Jim Henson panel I had hoped to see. Our disappointment quickly turned to delight when we discovered that the panel before the manga one was a […]

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