![]() ![]() One of the main themes of the series is exploring what, exactly, truth, justice, and the American way mean in modern China. Yang is currently writing the ongoing DC comic New Super-Man, about a Shanghai teenager who is granted the powers of the Man of Steel and joins China’s equivalent of the Justice League. ![]() Those two works earned Yang an ambassadorship to the Library of Congress and widespread critical acclaim. Yang also wrote and illustrated Boxers and Saints, which tells the tale of China’s Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the 20th Century. The 43-year-old is best known for his 2006 graphic novel American Born Chinese, which follows a young Chinese boy as he attempts to assimilate in the U.S. MacArthur Foundation said of their latest honoree. “Yang is leading the way in bringing diverse characters to children’s and young adult literature and confirming comics’ place as an important creative and imaginative force within literature and art,” the John D. Acclaimed graphic novelist - and the current writer of one of DC’s flagship Superman series - Gene Luen Yang was awarded a prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Grant this week. ![]()
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