Gene Luen Yang began making comics and graphic novels more than 15 years ago. In 2006 his bookAmerican 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 - New. In 2013 First Second Books releasedBoxers and Saints, his two-volume graphic novel about the Boxer Rebellion. It was nominated for a National Book Award and won the L.A. Times Book Prize. He made his mainstream comics debut onSuperman, with artists John Romita Jr. and Klaus Janson. His other works include the comics continuation of the popular Nickelodeon cartoonAvatar: The Last Airbender. Currently he writesNew Super-Man for DC Comics.