Comics
On this page, you can browse through my latest comics. These are self-published shorts, anthology pieces and experiments. For published editorial pieces, keep reading on select publications!
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Have A Good Life
27-page graphic memoir about taking a cross-country bus trip to get closer to the feeling of being an outsider.
If you are not afraid of going the wrong way, you’ll go more places. This feeling motivated me for many years throughout my life, when I was an international student from China, nearly two decades ago. When I first moved to New York, I was 20 years old, and knew no one. Instead of suppressing the sense of isolation, I decided to lean into it and do things that got me closer to the sense of loneliness. Taking a bus during Christmas across the country, seeing snow-covered landscapes, being the only Asian person on the bus in most rural towns, having a fantasy of going home and losing it, I found resilience in making the effort to find home one day.
This is a self-published comic, a self-contained story in connection to a book-length memoir I am developing about my experience moving from China to the United States as an unaccompanied teenager.
Sample pages (click to enlarge)
The Year That Answers
A collection of Diary Comics
Zora Neale Hurston wrote: “there are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
2025 had answers to questions I’ve asked for years. What does it mean to leave the place I’m from? What does it mean to make a living as an artist?
For the first time, I started making diary comics. This is a collection from my daily practice.
Sample pages (click to enlarge)
Daruma Adventure
This experimental manga volume explores the adventure of a monkey named San-san who wishes to see her grandparents again. Through the help of a friend, San-san boards a midnight train headed for a shrine known for dealing with the soul.
This manga originally developed in Japan in the manga intensive, which I was a co-faculty of, at International Manga Museum and Kyoto Seika University.
Sample pages (click to enlarge)
No Word Island
<What can’t you express in English?> No Word Island is a comic that challenges the convention of how non-English words are depicted in immigrant comics, and explores the limit of language and the power of visual imagination.
Self-published. Printed locally in New York Chinatown
Alien Sketchbook
A memoir comic about language, immigration, and art. A teenager who doesn’t speak English well makes friends and expresses herself through sketchbook drawings. PDF to come!
