Second Saturday Cartoonist: Gene Luen Yang and Clash Royal Tournament
Saturday, December 9
2:00 pm
Cost: Included with Museum admission. Free for Members.
Join award-winning cartoonist Gene Luen Yang, creator of American Born Chinese (now a Disney+ TV series), as he welcomes The Books of Clash, a new series of graphic novels set in the world of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale. Yang will talk about his work, followed by a book signing and Clash Royale tournament! Experience Clash Royale in an epic tournament on the big screen at the Museum. Try the game out for the first time or demonstrate your Clash skills and win prizes.
ABOUT GENE LUEN YANG
Gene Luen Yang began making comics and graphic novels in the fifth grade. In 2006, Yang’s book American Born Chinese was published by First Second Books. It became the first graphic
novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association’s Printz Award. It also won an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album.
In 2013, First Second Books released Boxers & Saints, Yang’s two-volume graphic novel about the Boxer Rebellion. Boxers & Saints was nominated for a National Book Award and won the L.A.
Times Book Prize. Gene Luen Yang has done a number of other comics, including Dark Horse Comics’ continuation of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender and DC Comics’ Superman!
In addition to cartooning, Yang teaches creative writing through Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults and teaches alongside amazing authors like Anne Ursu, Gary Schmidt, Laura Ruby, Matt De La Pena, and more.
In January 2016, the Library of Congress, Every Child A Reader, and the Children’s Book Council appointed Yang the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
