Gene Luen Yang Finds Comfort in Humility

"Ultimately, my career could go up, it could go down. But, it doesn't necessarily have any bearing with what's actually important in life."

Gene Luen Yang has been making comics and graphic novels since the fifth grade, and by any measure, he's been a massive success. He wrote and drew ‘American Born Chinese,’ the first graphic novel to be nominated for a national book award, now slated for adaptation as a live-action Disney+ series. He writes for DC and Marvel and he’s won the McArthur Genius Award. It would be hard to argue with the success Yang has been experiencing.

And yet, Gene says, "There was, at times, happiness about stuff, but it always felt like it was muted or limited." While some of his humble tendencies are cultural, in a very real sense they're also deeply rooted in faith. 

In this episode of The Disrupters, Yang explores how his upbringing and his faith give him perspective.

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