Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2015

Abstract

Installment three of the Cassandra Voss Center’s “SkypeTacular” series asks--how do you create an Asian-American superhero? Gene Luen Yang discusses racial identity in comic books and how to illustrate it all to a national audience. Gene Luen Yang, Chinese American writer and drawer of award-winning comics and graphic novels, just wrote “The Shadow Hero,” a revival of the first-ever Asian-American superhero.

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