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'The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: American Asian Book Cartoonist Comic Comic Book Created First Green Industry Named Turtle Work 1940S

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I have a fairly limited drawing style. I'm not like my friend Derek Kirk Kim, who can pretty much change his style at will. My drawing style can handle some of my stories, but not all of them.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Change Drawing Fairly Friend Handle His Kim Kirk Like Limited Much My Friend Pretty Some Stories Style Them Who Will

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I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Always Closet Come Comic Comics Couple Full Grew Had Hero Monthly Most Never Offers Out Same Series Shadow Superhero Timing Up Wanted While Worked World

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The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Comic Drawing Most Part Putting Together

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Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Bark Cartoonists Ever Favorite Rosa Two

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Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. They blend time and space. Many feature characters with dual identities like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Cartoonists also tend to live dichotomous lives because many of us have day jobs.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Also Because Blend Both Bruce Cartoonists Characters Comics Day Dual Feature Identities Inherent Jobs Like Live Lives Many Part Pictures Space Tend Time Time And Space Us Words

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My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Actually Brain Draw Hand Itself Limits Panel Subconsciously

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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

Topics: Allies Boxer Boxers Chinese Christian Europeans Fought Illiterate Japanese Other Poor Rebellion Referred Side Soil Starving Teenagers War Were Whom Year

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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

Topics: Among Began Boxer Down History How Knows Nobody Poor Rarely Really Rebellion Started Sure The History Of Written

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As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: About Arc Basically Boxer Boxers Foreign French Her Homeland How Invading Joan Poor Researching She Similar Something Struck Teenager Wanted Were Who

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Writer

Born: August 9th, 1973

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