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 Praz 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 135 articles for us.
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Beautiful.
I love how you can convey so much feeling and emotion in this comic- it’s amazing.
I ? these so much. So dreamlike, so lovely
I know, they’re like comics-meet-poems. Yao is such a poet!
Wow
There’s always something so soothing and calming about your comics. Thanks for sharing :)
So touching
Reading this while on a long distance, way too rare, phonecall with my mother.
Carefully navigating those treacherous waters called words.
Saturday Morning Cartoons is always a highlight of my weekend, and this is no exception. So beautiful.
Oh, lovely. <3
i love how you use colour!
Wonderfully insightful. Beautifully expressed. Masterfully envisaged.
Yao, you always give us so much of yourself with Baopu. Thank you for the intimacy, for trusting us with it. Thank you for the exquisite ache it leaves behind.
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So wonderful. <3