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'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is, to my mind, the greatest American animated series ever produced. The characters lived and breathed.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: American Animated Avatar Breathed Characters Ever Greatest Last Lived Mind Produced Series

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'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have, along with their team, painstakingly planned out the Avatarverse.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Along Avatar Bryan Creators Last Mike Out Planned Team

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With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Before Closely Come Comics Else Get Hard Head Match My Own Onto Other Own Paper Possible Someone Stay Stay True True Try Vision Want Working

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I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Always Between Clark Kent Lane Romantic Tension Think I Think

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I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Army Basically Because Book Boxers Capital City Comic Easier Envision Epic Europeans Gathered Had Japanese Journey Lot Me Saints Side Teenagers Think Were Where I Think

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Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Balance Boxer Chinese Christians Difficult Figuring Out Story Way

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The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publisher didn't think that would sell. If you read those books, the hero almost always has his back facing the camera so you can't see his face. When he turns around, his face is obscured.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Almost Always American Around Back Books Camera Chinese Face Facing Green He Hero His Publisher Read Really Rumor See Sell Think Those Turns Turtle Wanted Would You

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Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Created Different Future Humankind Idea Late Superman Very Would 1930S

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For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: American Books Born Childhood Chinese Did Fiction First Graphic Memory Mostly My Own Novel Own Pulled Research Second

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I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Good Honest Job Never Really Required Research To Be Honest Worked

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Writer

Born: August 9th, 1973

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