The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing. Gene Luen Yang comicdrawintensive Change image and share on social
When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team. Gene Luen Yang feltfiguregreat Change image and share on social
When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged. Gene Luen Yang badbunchcollege share on social
We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human. Gene Luen Yang culturaldetaildraft share on social
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling. Gene Luen Yang appleattachmentdeep Change image and share on social
For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect. Gene Luen Yang aspectboxercontrol Change image and share on social
During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture. Gene Luen Yang chinesecommunistcultural Change image and share on social
This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics. Gene Luen Yang bookcomicgraphic share on social
I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California. Gene Luen Yang berkeleycaliforniacomputer Change image and share on social
The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers. Gene Luen Yang allyboxerchinese share on social