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It's easy to become anything you wish ... so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.
— Gene Luen Yang
'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is, to my mind, the greatest American animated series ever produced. The characters lived and breathed.
— Gene Luen Yang
I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
— Gene Luen Yang
I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
— Gene Luen Yang
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
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
— Gene Luen Yang
'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have, along with their team, painstakingly planned out the Avatarverse.
— Gene Luen Yang
'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.
— Gene Luen Yang
I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.
— Gene Luen Yang
Though cast away am I from the heart of my city, black tears dribble from mine eyes at the sight of the fearful trail blazing towards her gates!
— Gene Luen Yang
Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.
— Gene Luen Yang
Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.
— Gene Luen Yang
Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever.
— Gene Luen Yang
I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.
— Gene Luen Yang
When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.
— Gene Luen Yang
I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.
— Gene Luen Yang
Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.
— Gene Luen Yang
Appa has feelings, too!
— Gene Luen Yang
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
— Gene Luen Yang
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
— Gene Luen Yang
Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.
— Gene Luen Yang
My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
— Gene Luen Yang
[S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.
— Gene Luen Yang
So basically, you get to play Super Mario all you want, any time you want, for FREE !"
"That is the single most amazing thing I've ever heard. — Gene Luen Yang
"That is the single most amazing thing I've ever heard. — Gene Luen Yang
We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.
— Gene Luen Yang
To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh ... that is the highest of all freedoms.
— Gene Luen Yang
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.
— Gene Luen Yang
I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
— Gene Luen Yang
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
— Gene Luen Yang
When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.
— Gene Luen Yang
I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.
— Gene Luen Yang
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.
— Gene Luen Yang
What is China but a people and their stories?
— Gene Luen Yang
In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
— Gene Luen Yang
To be able to write 'Superman,' to be able to work with the legendary artist who is John Romita Jr., I signed on as soon as I could.
— Gene Luen Yang
I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.
— Gene Luen Yang
The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.
— Gene Luen Yang
I was a huge fan of the Bruce Timm animated series and, of course, the live action 'Lois & Clark' series. I watched that when I was in college.
— Gene Luen Yang
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
Oh, cruel abandonment! My bones turn to dust beneath the gaze of your ever-mocking smile!
— Gene Luen Yang
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
— Gene Luen Yang
Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
— Gene Luen Yang
Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.
— Gene Luen Yang
I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.
— Gene Luen Yang
Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?
— Gene Luen Yang
I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.
— Gene Luen Yang
My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.
— Gene Luen Yang
Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.
— Gene Luen Yang
One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.
— Gene Luen Yang
Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
— Gene Luen Yang
I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.
— Gene Luen Yang
Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.
— Gene Luen Yang