The TV Reinvention of ‘American Born Chinese’

When Gene Luen Yang started working on American Born Chinese in 2000, he had been making comics for only about five years. He would write and draw each issue, go to Kinko’s to make copies and staple them by hand, and then sell them to his friends or at local conventions in small numbers. In 2006, the series was published by First Second Books, and it became a New York Times bestseller, a winner of the Printz and Eisner Awards, …