In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
Gene Luen YangI think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.
Gene Luen YangComing from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.
Gene Luen Yang