BADIUCAO & MELISSA CHAN ON YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION – FICTION

BADIUCAO is a Chinese Australian artist, activist, and political provocateur. One of the most popular and prolific creatives from China, he confronts a variety of social and political issues in his work, often using satire to tackle censorship, authoritarianism, and capitalism. He has exhibited in the U.S., Australia, and throughout Europe. He has been interviewed by The Washington Post, The Guardian, Time, CNN, NBC, and others, and was profiled by The New York Times and CBS News’ 60 Minutes. In 2020, he won the Human Rights Foundation’s Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent. He currently lives in exile in Australia. You Must Take Part in Revolution: A Graphic Novel (Street Noise Books) is his debut graphic novel.

CHARLES KOCHMAN is editor-in-chief of Abrams ComicArts and editor of the No. 1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Over 40 years, he has edited several hundred books for all age groups, including award-winning picture books, middle-grade novels, retrospectives, monographs, graphic novels, and art book collections published by Abrams, DC Comics, Mad magazine, Bantam Books, and Putnam. A member of the National Cartoonists Society, the Society of Illustrators, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, he is on the nominating committees for the Bill Finger Awards and the Harvey Hall of Fame Awards. He is also a recipient of the Inkpot Award, presented by Comic-Con International for achievement in comics.

MELISSA CHAN is an Emmy-nominated Hong Kong and Taiwanese American foreign correspondent based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She was previously posted in China until she became the first journalist in more than a decade to be expelled by Chinese authorities in 2012. Much of her reporting examines human rights, the rise of global authoritarianism, and the defense of democracies. Her work has taken her from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Moscow to Havana. She has written for The New York Times, where she was nominated for a Loeb Award – business journalism’s highest honor – and The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, and more. As a broadcast correspondent, she has reported for Vice News Tonight and Al Jazeera. You Must Take Part in Revolution (Street Noise Books) is her debut graphic novel.