{"id":492846,"date":"2010-03-31T08:58:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T12:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2010-03-31T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T12:58:23","slug":"secret-asian-man-the-daily-days-by-tak-toyoshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/492846","title":{"rendered":"Secret Asian Man: The Daily Days by Tak Toyoshima"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Art director for an alternative city paper by day, comics artist whenever he has the time, SAM (Secret Asian Man, yes!) \u2013 not so unlike his own creator Tak Toyoshima \u2013 fights stereotypes when he can, makes biting commentaries when frustrated, and generally tries to get along in his diverse world. His cousin Simon challenges him, his best friend Charlie hangs with him, his hapa son Shin inspires him, and thank goodness his Irish\/Italian wife keeps him grounded.<\/p>\n

Over the five years that Secret Asian Man ran daily under United Features Syndicate, Osamu \u201cSAM\u201d Takahashi \u2013 \u201cYou got Ellis Islanded,\u201d his son\u2019s preschool teacher points out! \u2013 watches his best friend Charlie build one invention after another and finally hit it big, survive cuts and layoffs and creative differences at his alternative paper, witnesses history being made with Obama\u2019s victory (and wonders when an APA President might be a reality), somehow survives the economic downturns, celebrates his son\u2019s growing sense of mixed identity, repeatedly debates a city vs. suburb future with his suburban-raised wife, shakes his head when his annoying cousin finally gets a girlfriend (named Grace Lee \u2013 everyone knows a Grace Lee, right?), and generally tries to stay a positive, supportive friend, father, and husband.<\/p>\n

Collected for the first time in this single entertaining volume, SAM\u2019s adventures can be read in a single sitting, or strip by strip as they were meant to be. Toyoshima advises, \u201c\u2026 feel free to jump around, dog ear pages, cut out favorites or give them to your kids to color.\u201d When you\u2019re finished, put your withdrawl worries to rest \u2026 SAM\u2019s adventures don\u2019t end on page 231 \u2013 you can keep following him at secretasianman.com<\/a> or check in with SAM’s creator at\u00a0Toyoshima’s regularly updated blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2009<\/p>\n

Filed under: ..Adult Readers<\/a>, ..Young Adult Readers<\/a>, .Fiction<\/a>, .Graphic Novels\/Manga\/Manwha<\/a>, Japanese American<\/a> Tagged: Civil rights<\/a>, Cultural exploration<\/a>, Family<\/a>, Father\/son relationship<\/a>, Friendship<\/a>, Love<\/a>, Mixed-race issues<\/a>, Parent\/child relationship<\/a>, Politics<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Art director for an alternative city paper by day, comics artist whenever he has the time, SAM (Secret Asian Man, yes!) \u2013 not so unlike his own creator Tak Toyoshima \u2013 fights stereotypes when he can, makes biting commentaries when frustrated, and generally tries to get along in his diverse world. His cousin Simon challenges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}