Having taken his graphic novel AMERICAN BORN CHINESE to literary heights previously unscaled by graphic novels, just what is creator Gene Yang up to now? Well, he told CBR :

I’m currently working on a graphic novel with Thien Pham, a fellow Bay Area cartoonist. I wrote it, he did the break-downs, he’s pencilling, and I’m inking. It’s called “Three Angels,” and it’s loosely based on my brother’s experiences as a med school student.

My brother is in his fourth year at UCSF Medical School right now, and he comes back and tells me the craziest stories. After hearing a few of them, I told him, “These need to be in a comic. “And now, with the help of Thien, they will be.