The Green Turtle Chronicles by Gene Luen Yang

On August 2, Flying Colors Comics (2980 Treat Blvd., Concord) will host a launch party for The Shadow Hero, published by First Second just in time for last week’s San Diego Comic-Con.įrom the birth of the superhero genre in 1938, Asian characters in comic books were usually relegated to roles as Fu Manchu villains or slapstick sidekicks, rendered with yellow/orange skin tones, ridiculous buckteeth, and slanted eyelids.

Panels from Gene Yang’s The Shadow Hero.

As the author/illustrator of The New York Times-bestselling graphic novel Boxers & Saints, he has done much to bring Chinese history, mythology, and culture to a wider audience. Yang, an Alameda native, UC Berkeley grad and math teacher, and IT specialist at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, grew up in the San Jose area, but maintains deep ties to the East Bay. Together, Yang and Liew resurrected what many consider to be the first Asian-American superhero from obscurity. The Shadow Hero - written by Gene Luen Yang, author of the National Book Award finalist American Born Chinese, and illustrated by Sonny Liew, creator of Malinky Robot for Image Comics - reintroduces the Green Turtle, a forgotten character from the Golden Age of Comics. These familiar comic book elements are given a fresh twist in a new graphic novel that ties superheroics to the immigrant experience.

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The Green Turtle Chronicles by Gene Luen Yang