Gene Luen Yang Spotlight (45:18, 103mb)
Gene and moderator Mark Askwith spoke about when he first began drawing, his first comic books, making comics as a kid with a friend, getting into indy comics via Rory Root’s Comic Relief store, what books really connected to him, his love of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, jobs he did while starting in comics, doing American Born Chinese and how it changed his life, First Second being his “home”, what Lunar New Year Love Stories is about, how some of it was based the artists stories in which they completely write and drew, how crazy fast the artist is, the Lion Dance section and how all of the ways it fit into the book, the Ambassador role he has and what he speaks about, what books he recommends to people, his early cartoonist friends in San Francisco, Superman Smashes The Klan, American Born Chinese being turned into a TV show and how that affected his life, the connection he has with his audience.
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