![]() “When I first signed up Gene, he was pretty much photocopying and stapling his mini comics and losing money on them at Comic-Con,” Siegel said. I’ve never seen him take anything for granted. ![]() “I’ve never seen anything go to his head. It’s beyond anything I could have expected for my life.”Īccording to Mark Siegel, his longtime editor at First Second Books, such an unassuming response is classic Gene Yang. “I don’t know if it will ever actually sink in,” Yang admitted to me in an interview two weeks after the announcement. Yang, 43, is only the third graphic novelist to receive the honor in its 35-year history. Yang is among a distinguished slate of Americans who have been awarded the no-strings-attached prize, including paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, activist Marian Wright Edelman, sociologist William Julius Wilson, and writers George Saunders and Ta-Nehisi Coates. ![]() Yang’s work counteracts this trend, nudging us to explore the different and the unfamiliar to better understand-and love-perspectives that are not our own. ![]() A MacArthur Foundation statement said that Yang was recognized for “bringing diverse people and cultures to children’s and young adult literature and confirming comics’ place as an important and creative force within literature, art, and education.”Īs our news sources, social media feeds, and even our churches are increasingly siloed, many Christians feel disconnected from their neighbors and the world. ![]()
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