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Cartoonist and Comic Book Writer 🧧American Born Chinese 🏀Dragon Hoops 🐢Secret Coders 🗡Books of Clash 🦸🏻‍♂️Superman Smashes the Klan 👊🏼Shang-Chi 🐵Monkey Prince ☁️Avatar

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Thien Pham, Briana Loewinsohn, and I will be at Illusive Comics in Santa Clara tomorrow Sat 11/18 1-4pm to talk about breaking into comics!

5245 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara, CA

(Thanks for making the graphic, Thien!)

17.11.2023 18:57 — 👍 43    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0
Gene Luen Yang celebrates the release of THE BOOKS OF CLASH VOL 2 with Derek Kirk Kim Join us for an in-store event, Gene Luen Yang celebrates the release of THE BOOKS OF CLASH VOL 2 with Derek Kirk Kim, on Tuesday, November 14, 2023.

Derek Kirk Kim is joining me tomorrow Tue 11/14 5:30pm at Barnes & Noble in San Jose (3600 Stevens Creek Blvd) to celebrate the release of The Books of Clash Vol 2! You should totally come! https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062159213-0

14.11.2023 04:05 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was so fun! Thanks for hanging out, Betsy!

11.11.2023 11:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tomorrow Sunday 11/12! 4pm! Bookshop Santa Cruz! Come listen to Thien Pham and me bicker like old men! (And celebrate the release of Books of Clash Vol 2!)
https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/gene-luen-yang

11.11.2023 11:25 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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HEY GEORGIA! I’m headed to the Decatur Library tomorrow Fri Nov 10 at 6pm!

Come celebrate the release of Books of Clash Book 2 with me! We’re giving away lots of Clash swag including Hog Rider statues!

09.11.2023 16:53 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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My BOOKS OF CLASH tour begins TODAY in PORTLAND! (Beaverton, specifically.) See you 7pm at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hill Crossing!

(Note that my 11/12 Santa Cruz event has been pushed to 4pm instead of 2pm as was previously announced)

Tour details here: https://linktr.ee/thebooksofclash

06.11.2023 17:26 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
The Books of Clash Volume 2: Legendary Legends of Legendarious Achievery: Gene Luen Yang: Trade Paperback: 9781250816283: Powell's Books

HEY OREGON! I’m coming to visit on Monday 11/6! 7pm at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing! Come celebrate the launch of BOOKS OF CLASH VOL 2 with me!
https://www.powells.com/book/books-of-clash-volume-2-9781250816283

03.11.2023 15:55 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Be sure to catch Thien Pham, creator of the new graphic memoir 'Family Style,' at CAM on Sun., Aug 20. Special guests include Gene Luen Yang ('American Born Chinese'), Briana Loewinsohn ('Ephemera'), and Jason Shiga ('Leviathan'). http://cartoonart.org/calendar

17.08.2023 22:54 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Today at 1:30pm, come to our panel Life Inside the Page: Real-Life Inspired Comics! Room 10! Join Victoria Ying (Hungry Ghost), Thien Pham (Family Style), Dan Santat (A First Time for Everything), Deb JJ Lee (In Limbo), and me!

22.07.2023 16:10 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
American Born Chinese | Full Episode| Disney+
Jin's plans to make the soccer team are derailed by the arrival of a new foreign exchange student.All episodes of #AmericanBornChinese are now streaming on #... American Born Chinese | Full Episode| Disney+

I'm not 100% sure how this happened but I'm pretty thrilled about it. Disney just put the first episode of the American Born Chinese show on YouTube! The full episode for a limited time, FOR FREE! Check it out!

21.06.2023 18:09 — 👍 107    🔁 49    💬 10    📌 2
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What does it take to fit into US culture? Writer of #AmericanBornChinese @geneluenyang.bsky.social returns to the #Fascinating pod with the show's composer Wendy Wang.
Listen up!
https://thefascinatingpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/american-born-chinese-ft-wendy-wang-and-gene-luen-yang

19.06.2023 15:53 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This Saturday, Daniel Wu, Kelvin Yu, Melvin Mar, and I are going to be at the Asian Art Museum in SF to screen and then talk about the American Born Chinese show on Disney+. You should totally come! https://calendar.asianart.org/event/disney-american-born-chinese-screening-and-discussion/

05.06.2023 22:34 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2
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I didn’t make it physically to my book signing in Plainville tonight bc of a delayed flight. I’m visiting virtually tho! Wanna come? https://www.crowdcast.io/c/clash

01.06.2023 23:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks like I’m not gonna make it after all. Massive plane delay. 😔

01.06.2023 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really want to see comics twitter rebuild itself here.
If you think of yourself as part of that world- whether that means creative, editorial, marketing, retail, library, academia, journalism, criticism, active fan- reply with a "yo" so the funnybook people can find you. RTs help, too!

26.05.2023 23:53 — 👍 1945    🔁 843    💬 1542    📌 111

Hi! 👋🏼

01.06.2023 13:42 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was great!

01.06.2023 13:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you’re in the Boston Area, I’m gonna be at An Unlikely Story in Plainville tonight 7:30pm to celebrate the launch of The Books of Clash Vol 1! Come by!

An Unlikely Story
111 South Street
Plainville, MA 02762

01.06.2023 13:19 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I’m in San Diego for a book launch at 7pm today. Wanna come? Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
3555 Rosecrans St #107

31.05.2023 23:24 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

is this a mistake

28.04.2023 02:31 — 👍 50    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 8