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It's S.A.M.!ALL-NEW SECRET ASIAN MAN by TAK TOYOSHIMA!

The Voice of Asian Neurosis

By Tak Toyoshima, AAV Artist-in-Residence

 

This Week: "We Can Be Heroes"

TWO BONUS SAMs

In the cloying, self-congratulatory awards department:
Secret Asian Man in: "Split Image"
SAM's love/hate relationship with the Asian Image Awards

From the Women's History Month archives:
Secret Asian Man on: Why Japan Needs Women's History Month

Profess Love to SAM Scold SAM
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NEW: The Random-SAM Secret 100!: a potpourri of 100 Classic SAMs, including some scans going waaayyy back to the early days before SAM ever jumped online. Tune IN to Random SAM, turn ON (your javascript settings), and REFRESH (your browser window) to your heart's content.
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Job Hunting Section: Advice and articles on everything from Resumes to Interviewing to Salary Negotiations

 

 More Classic SAM

View more Classic SAM in our Secret Archives section

Random-SAM Secret 100

View "The Complete Origins of Secret Asian Man" series in a slideshow. (Sorry. Needs IE to view correctly.)

Bound SAM

You can find SAM and Tak featured in these books, available at Amazon

East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture
NEW! East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture
A whole chapter on SAM, plus cover art by Tak (fuzzy here, but funny, trust us)


'Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists'
 

Last Edition's SAM:

Secret Asian Man in: "The Skit Hits the Fan"
(aka, dumbass Carolla)

Secret Asian Man is: "Not Funny!"
Guess Adam Carolla's not only one...

Secret Asian Man sez: "Gung Hai Fat Choi!"
Lose the leash!

Secret Asian Man in: "Color Blind"
What a wonderful world it would be! (?)

Secret Asian Man: Tourist Trap
Perils of the fake foreigner gambit

Secret Asian Man: Remembering Noriyuki
SAM's sad ode to "Pat" Morita

Secret Asian Man on: "Oriental Trading"
aka "Don't sweat the holidays"

Secret Asian Man on: "Cultural Devolution"
and comparative martial arts

Secret Asian Man in: "I Can Sell That!"
A spokesman for Asian America?

Secret Asian Man in: Even More True Tales
Where is SAM's place?

Secret Asian Man on: Hip-Hop
An appreciation

View Previous Editions' Strips

Secret Asian Man on: Cultural Accuracy in Casting
Sure, it's Zhang Ziyi...but it's still messed up! (Isn't it?)

Secret Asian Man in: More True Tales
Ha-YA!

Secret Asian Man in: "It's not okay when you say it"
From the Watch-what-you-say department

Secret Asian Man in: "Newman's Own"?
Well, it tastes good, doesn't it?

Secret Asian Man in: "Skeletons"
Well, it's about time...again.

Secret Asian Man in: Bat-SAM
Let's hear it for color-blind casting. Pow! Wapp!

Secret Asian Man is: Patriotic
Equal opportunity dissin' for weird Asians!

Secret Asian Man's Job Interview
Oh yeah? Chop-suey to you, too!

Secret Asian Man in: Color-Blind Casting
Great Hollywood remakes to come

Secret Asian Man on: AZN TV
Oh, for a TV of one's own...

Secret Asian Man: Spoiler of U.S.A. U.
Run in with a disgruntled histotechnologist

Secret Asian Man: "Defaults"
Everyone knows that...

Secret Asian Man on: "Convenient Racial Outrage"

Secret Asian Man: Celebrates Nowruz

Secret Asian Man: 10 Things to See Before I Die

View more Classic SAM in our Secret Archives section

 

Tak Toyoshima, Asian American Village Artist-in-Residence

It's S.A.M.!

Asian America's favorite cartoon satirist, Village Artist-in-Residence Tak Toyoshima is Art Director at the Boston Chinatown-based Weekly Dig.  A freelance illustrator and widely read comic artist, Toyoshima has worked for New England Comics on The Tick, and is creator of a self-published comic book, The Couch. Born and raised in N.Y.C's Tribeca district, and now lives in Boston with his beautiful wife Tracey and son Owen. S.A.M. now has his own apparel and accessories line available for purchase here. S.A.M. also has his own home page @ Asian-American Village here.

IMDiversity.com is committed to presenting diverse points of view. However, the viewpoint expressed in this article is the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the owners or employees at IMD.

 

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