Gene Luen Yang has written and drawn many award-winning comics, including the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, American Born Chinese, and Boxers&Saints. He is also the author of Level Up (with Thien Pham), The Shadow Hero (with Sonny Liew), and DC's New Super-Man series. He is the first graphic novelist to be named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
Mike Holmes’s comics can be seen in Bravest Warriors, Adventure Time, True Story, This American Drive, and Animal Crackers: Circus Mayhem.
Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. As the Library of Congress’ fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, he advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely.
American Born Chinese, his first graphic novel from First Second Books, was a National Book Award finalist, as well as the winner of the Printz Award and an Eisner Award. His two-volume graphic novel
Boxers&Saints won the L.A. Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist. His other works include
Secret Coders (with Mike Holmes),
The Shadow Hero (with Sonny Liew),
New Super-Man from DC Comics (with various artists), and
the Avatar: The Last Airbender series from Dark Horse Comics (with Gurihiru). In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Mike Holmes has drawn for the comics series Secret Coders, Bravest Warriors, Adventure Time, and the viral art project Mikenesses. His books include the
True Story collection (2011),
This American Drive (2009), and
Shenanigans. He lives with a cat named Ella, who is his best buddy.
