Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, a segment where four artists take turns delighting you with their whimsy, facts and punchlines on Saturday mornings! Our esteemed cartoon critters are Cameron Glavin, Anna Bongiovanni, Megan Prazenica and Yao Xiao. Today’s cartoon is by Yao!
Yao Xiao is a China-born illustrator based in New York City. Yao Xiao creates artwork depicting a poetic visual world where complex concepts and human emotions are examined, amplified, and given physical form. Her work has helped people all over the globe connect at unique moments, from the celebration of the 20 Year Anniversary of the SXSW Interactive Festival, to the grand release of pop singer Katy Perry's single 'Dark Horse.' She has created deeply emotional and beautiful graphics for editorial print publications, pop music record covers, concert posters and book covers. Yao Xiao's serialized comic Baopu currently runs monthly on Autostraddle. It is an original comic exploring the nuances in searching for identities, connections and friendships through the fictional life of a young, queer emigrant. Baopu stands for 'holding simplicity,' a Taoist ideal of wishing to return to a simpler state. Find her on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Etsy or her website.
Yao has written 134 articles for us.
very nice!!
Spot on. I will try to do all of that.
Great
Beautiful!
Thank you <3
this is so lovely.
May I share on tumblr (I will link to your tumblr)? (if not, no problem!)
Hi! Yes, it will totally be cool, in fact that’s so awesome of you!
My tumblr is yaoxiaoart.tumblr.com
Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Yao
Yay! No, thank YOU! :D
Lovely <3
Spot on.
Well, I’m going to stick this in a very important spot for those rough days.
Beautiful little reminder; saved onto my desktop so I won’t forget.
Love this!
So rad!
Saved this so I can refer to it as I need. Thanks for sharing!
Can I buy a print of this?
Hi Alex!
I would love to sell you a print, would you please email me at [email protected]?
Thank you!:)
I sent an email; did it maybe get filtered into spam? No pressure, but I’m still interested in a print. :)
<3 this.
Beautifully timed for me, thank you xxxx
<3 thank you, thank you
oh i love this so much
Wonderful. Thank you
I love this. I’m going to think about it for a while I think.
Put this up in my office on my, “Self Care Wall” for students to look at. A nice culmination of many pieces of great advice!
This is beautiful and so soothing. I keep looking at it and reading the words and thinking of what they mean to me. Thank you :D
Love it. Need to print this out and look at it daily.