Tak Toyoshima, creator of the razor-sharp Secret Asian Man comic strip and art director of the edgy newspaper, Boston’s Weekly Dig, dares you to mess with him. Okay, he really just wants people to stop making fun of Asian delivery drivers and hopes for once that an Asian can be a leading actor in a non-martial arts film.

Toyoshima is the first and only Asian-American to have a comic strip syndicated in a daily newspaper. Now, several years after launching his strip, he is set to release The Daily Days, a collection of his syndicated work on Amazon.com. I caught up with my old colleague (full disclosure – I worked with Toyoshima at the Dig for nearly a decade) in advance of his debut book. Read on and buy his book but don’t mess with him!

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