, was released last month: Fremont graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang has reason to 'Smile'. Things are looking pretty good for Gene. His previous work, the 2007 National Book Award finalist American Born Chinese
, is popping up frequently on school reading lists. And the tale he and Sonny Liew wrote, "The Blue Scorpion" (a spoof of The Green Hornet), is featured in the recently published Secret Identities, the Asian American superhero anthology.All this acclaim, and Gene continues to hold down his day job as a teacher at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland. How does the man do it?