The Shadow Hero, Paperback

Descriere

Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a Mac Arthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the Mac Arthur -Genius- Grant. A New York Times bestseller In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity... The Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang, the acclaimed author of American Born Chinese, and Sonny Liew, the author of the New York Times-bestseller The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, have finally revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that creates an origin story for the Green Turtle. This gorgeous, funny comics adventure for teens is a new spin on the long, rich tradition of American comics lore.

Despre autor

Gene Luen Yang

romancier grafic american · n. 1973

Gene Luen Yang este un desenator și autor american. Este un conferențiar frecvent pe teme legate de romane grafice și benzi desenate, la convenții de benzi desenate, universități, școli și biblioteci. În plus, a fost director al Serviciilor de Informații și a predat informatică la Liceul Bishop O’Dowd din Oakland, California.