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Gene Luen Yang's Picks
Gene Luen Yang's PicksIn 2006, Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese became the first graphic novel to be nominated for the National Book Award, as well as the first to win the Michael L. Printz Award. Since then, he has created a number of comics including Prime Baby, Level Up (with Thien Pham), and the Eisner-winning Eternal Smile (with Derek Kirk Kim). He currently works with Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko to write Dark Horse Comics' Avatar: The Last Airbender graphic novel series.
Stinky the Swamp Monster makes a new friend and learns an important life lesson. Eleanor Davis fills this young readers' comic with masterful cartooning and olfactory jokes. My kids love it and so do I.
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Zita is a brave little girl who ventures into space to rescue her kidnapped friend. Ben Hatke's endearing characters, both human and alien, will charm your space boots off.
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Long Tail Kitty (LTK for short) and her friends have all sorts of whimsical adventures in their whimsical neighborhood. Check out the cool fold-out of party activities right in the middle! It's the best use of a fold-out page in a comic since Frank Miller's Ronin.
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Is it a comic book or is it a maze? Jason Shiga's choose-your-own-adventure masterpiece amazes me every time I read it, mostly because I always wind up at a different ending.
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A washed-up American football player tries to build a new life in the world of Japanese sumo wrestling. I'm a sucker for stories that deal with the dichotomy of East and West. Thien Pham tackles that dichotomy not just in the story itself but in the way he tells it.
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Fantastic Four by Waid & Wieringo Ultimate Collection Book 1
Not since Stan and Jack has a creative team so thoroughly captured the spirit of Marvel's first family.
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Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels)
All those old Classics Illustrated comics sucked like open wounds (in my humble opinion). I didn't think it was possible to adapt classic literature to comics... until I read this book.
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Urasawa is a master of suspense, and he puts every ounce of his immense talent to use in this modern retelling of a classic Astroboy story. Not only that, but the whole story's about robot fights!
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This has got to be one of the greatest comics short stories of all time. But don't take my word for it -- just look at the Eisner Award, the Ignatz Award, and the Harvey Award that Derek Kirk Kim won for this book.
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James Sturm just might be my favorite living cartoonist. Sturm does what Sturm does best -- tell a well-crafted story through simple, beautifully-drawn panels -- in this meditation on the tension between art and responsibility.
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