Yao Xiao

Always a pleasure to be interviewed by Jimmy at Comic News Insider!☺️❤️

Haha my thoughts are- you are not transforming into a chinese princess, you are transforming into the chinese normal people from the 1200s who wore gaudy clothes to imitate royalty, just like we do now 😂

Past Lives might be my new favorite movie 😭 marriage of immigrant movies and mid 2000s romcom. I have so many thoughts that I have to process after seeing it. Cried a lot in the movie theater

The cards know more than I do! 😳

It's called the Prisma Visions, I really like it. By James Eads

!! Great read

Just a regular Tuesday tarot draw 😂

“That’s How I Feel!” Visual Books Help Teens Grapple with Emotions & Mental Health Illustrated works show the power of pictures to convey complex feelings—and why building a visual collection can be one of the best things you do for your teens.

My book Everything Is Beautiful, And I'm Not Afraid, is featured in School Library Journal for using visual imagery to tell stories about mental health. So excited to see the book starting new conversations in classrooms!

ME: *looking at the Giving Tree* its giving tree

When the conjunction of my interests produces comics about Chinese idiom and awkward feline.🐯🍁new pages bc I can't do my regular work while it's so hot

I kinda dig the advertising! 😂

This summer I got mouth guards, and for the first time in my life I'm not clenching my teeth while resting face. 😭 it was unexpectedly personal when I went with my mom and the dentist said "it's a sign of stress" something I never put into words that way.

Colorful breakfast🤤pumpkin, brown rice and farro porridge

Started a project I had wanted to do for a long time. Translating a piece of Chinese literature I often refer to as an inspiration for writing, on the subject of the Cultural Revolution.

Me to class: don't stress, just make the pages!
Me making the pages: stress stress stress

I'm teaching at FIT this semester!

Always wanted to make one of these. Ha! And shout out to Robyn Chapman & Drawing Comics Lab which I'm using a lot, for my comics class.

Comic slides continues. Adapted @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understanding Comics for my class to teach form vs content

First day of class!!! Proud of my hand drawn slides, the only way I want to make them now

🤩🤩🤩thank you!!

Excited to read!! The Infinity Particle by @wendyxu.bsky.social 🥳

Teaching a visual storytelling course on comics this semester!! Excited & a dream come true. I started drawing comics 10 years ago.

My cute lunch!! Soysauce eggplant, lotus roots, cucumber and fried rice 🥲

Alexandra Trese, Babaylan-Mandirigma of Manila, Sixth Child of the Sixth Child

This is so fascinating! Explaining the texture of tofu is like singling out plain water and try to sell it as delicious🥲 when I'm in China I eat so much bean-derived content

Chinese dishes 😍 first time making fresh lotus roots myself

Soundscape of my studio is any Chinese dessert shop at closing time or small town barber shop😂 chill hk tw mando oldies

What a happy occurrence

Yesterday I went to a Chinese-English multi language exquisite corpse tattoo collective creation workshop in Queens. So happy something like this exists 💙

Ahh thank you so much! Would love to know your thoughts.