It also won an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album -New. His 2006 book, American Born Chinese, was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association's Michael L. He has since written and drawn a number of titles. You can learn more about Gurihuru at Luen Yang began making comic books in the fifth grade. Gurihuru has worked on Fantastic Four, The Last Airbender, and Power Pack. Gurihiru is the team name of the illustration duo of Chifuku Sasaki and Naoko Kawano. The Shadow Hero is now available as individual digital issues via Amazon Kindle. The Shadow Hero, his comic book series with Sonny Liew, revived the Green Turtle, an obscure 1940s character who is arguably the first Asian-American superhero. Gene currently writes the graphic novel continuation of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon, Avatar: The Last Airbender. His 2013 two-volume graphic novel, Boxers & Saints, was nominated for both the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award. Revisit the adventure of Avatar: The Last Airbender-Smoke and Shadow with this all-new omnibus edition, collecting all three original parts for the first time in paperback! Collects Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow parts 1-3.Ībout the Author Gene Luen Yang began making comic books in the fifth grade. Unrest is brewing as the New Ozai Society prepares to make its move against the crown, and children begin to go missing from their homes under mysterious circumstances.

About the Book 'Created by Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino.'īook Synopsis The Fire Nation is threatened by a prophecy told by the Kemurikage, mysterious figures thought only to exist in legend: remove Zuko from the throne, or the country will perish! Avatar Aang and his friends escort Zuko and his family back to the capital, completely unaware of the looming threat growing in the city.

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