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Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection Paperback – March 3, 2020
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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.
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
- Publication dateMarch 3, 2020
- Dimensions6.5 x 0.4 x 8 inches
- ISBN-101524852457
- ISBN-13978-1524852450
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“...emotional, beautiful, and moving work…” (Hello Giggles)
“Staggeringly beautiful and heartbreakingly familiar, this comic hits close to home, wherever that home might be.” (Yes Homo)
“Chinese-born cartoonist Yao blends slice-of-life comics with surreal introspection in this remarkable debut collection.” (Publishers Weekly)
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Yao’s work blends emotion, experience, and imagination together with visual imagery. Yao Xiao came to the United States as an exchange student in 2006 and has been writing about her experience since. She started illustrating her journey through a series of comics after she received a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in 2013.
As an illustrator, her work has appeared in Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, Mental Floss, National Geographic, Newsweek, TIME Magazine, Vice, and the Wall Street Journal. 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 currently works out of her home on the Upper West Side with her cat, Happy.
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- Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing (March 3, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1524852457
- ISBN-13 : 978-1524852450
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 0.4 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,226,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #845 in Biographies & History Graphic Novels
- #1,363 in Historical & Biographical Fiction Graphic Novels
- #23,367 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
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Yao Xiao is a cartoonist and illustrator living in New York. Her debut graphic novel, Everything Is Beautiful, And I’m Not Afraid was published by Andrews McMeel in 2020 and has received praise by Publishers Weekly and Ms. Magazine. Her debut children’s book How To Solve A Problem, written by Ashima Shiraishi and published by Penguin Random House received a starred review on Kirkus. She has been publishing Baopu, a serialized comic on Autostraddle since 2014 and has been featured on Buzzfeed and The Washington Post as guest cartoonist. Her work has been nominated for the Ignatz Award and recognized by the Society of Illustrators.
As a freelance illustrator, her work has been featured in TIME Magazine, Buzzfeed, Vice, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, National Geographic, School Library Journal and the Wall Street Journal among others. She is the illustrator to create Katy Perry’s album cover for “Dark Horse.” Yao has shown her work at galleries in New York, San Francisco and Seattle.
Yao was born in China and emigrated to the United States in 2006. After graduation with a degree in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts, Yao sought a way to document her experiences as a queer immigrant in and developed a series of comics incorporating illustration and writing. Yao Xiao continues to seek opportunities as an artist, writer and illustrator and to connect to others through her work.
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Starkly self-criticizing, introspective, extremely colorful, comic-celled vignettes that questioning her world, why other people seemingly have it easy, being good enough, resilient enough, subsisting while everyone’s view of her means everything and yet nothing at all.








