Comics
Through heart-felt observations and lucid narration, these comics, which are often nonfiction, hand-drawn directly with a felt-tip pen, or rendered colorfully, investigates the hidden emotions behind everyday interactions.
These are self-published shorts, anthology pieces and experiments. For published editorial pieces, keep reading on select publications and books!
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Just Fill The Page (2026)
A 19-page memoir comic about language, immigration, and art. A teenager who doesn’t speak English well comes to an American high school. In silence she starts drawing.
Have A Good Life (2025)
A 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.
Definitely Not Therapy (2026)
Is writing a memoir therapy? Why Not? A pithy 12-page zine about the ups and downs and bearing your soul on the page.
It’s So Nice To Be Outside (2026)
An 8-page zine about the hidden side of applying for a job.
The Year That Answers (2025)
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.
Beautiful (2025)
A 2 x 2.75” folded zine discussing thoughts on what it is to be called beautiful or ugly, and whether your art is like your body.
Drawing Daily Comics (2025)
A 2x2.27” folded zine about drawing secret, fun, and low-stake comics.
Growing Roots:
A Graphic Interview with Director of Think!Chinatown Yin Kong (2026)
Commissioned by MidAtlantic Arts
No Word Island (2024)
<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. Printed locally in New York Chinatown.
Everything Is Beautiful, And I’m Not Afraid (2020)
Published by Andrews McMeel
A Finalist for The 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid perfectly captures the feelings of a young sojourner in America as she explores the nuances in searching for a place to belong. Baopu is a monthly serialized comic on Autostraddle, and this book includes beloved fan favorites plus new, never-before-seen comics.
This one-of-a-kind graphic novel explores the poetics of searching for connection, belonging, and identity through the fictional life of a young, queer immigrant. Inspired by the creator's own experiences as a queer, China-born illustrator living in the United States, Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid has an undeniable memoir quality to its recollection and thought-provoking accounts of what it's like to navigate the complexities of seeking belonging—mentally and geographically.
