Sarula Bao is a Chinese American illustrator and graphic novelist based in Brooklyn. She graduated from RISD’s illustration department in 2016 and has since published a graphic novel, Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution and currently works as a comics instructor and freelance illustrator. She also manages a small press and riso studio, Endless Editions, and is an organizer of the Brooklyn Art Book Fair.
She has been featured in The New Yorker Cover Story, Twice, the Makers Series by the W.O.W Project, “How to Book“ by Small Editions, Girlsclub Asia, World Journal, Brooklyn Paper, NYC Plugged, amNY, Eater SF, It’s Nice That, AirBNB Design, Our Place, Colossal, Time Magazine, Childish Books, SineTheta Magazine, Beyond Chinatown, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Jadaliyya and worked with clients such as Google, Apple, Facebook, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vice, Refinery 29, Bon Appétit, Youtube, Fellow Industries Inc., Anthropology News, Buzzfeed News, AirBNB, Slate Magazine, Document Journal, Chronicle Books, Guernica Magazine, Flocabulary, Narratively, Lenny Letter, Splice, Our Place, Think!Chinatown, Wing on Wo and Co., Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, City Point Brooklyn, Alive Ventures, Abrons Art Center, and Good Good Eatz. Full CV.
Contact at sarulatbao@gmail.com