YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION
2035: The US and China are at war. America is a fascist state. Taiwan is divided. Three youths who first met in Hong Kong develop diverging beliefs about how to navigate a techno-authoritarian landscape and what it will cost to resist.
Dive into a near-future dystopian graphic novel about technology, authoritarian government, and the lengths to which one might need to go in the fight for freedom. Join Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and activist artist Badiucao and see if they are predicting a not-too-distant future.
Image credit: Badiucao and Melissa Chan, You Must Take Part in Revolution
Badiucao [CHN/AU]
Badiucao is a two-time Walkley Award-winning Chinese Australian artist, activist, and political provocateur whose cartoons are regularly published in The Age. One of China’s most popular creatives, he uses satire to tackle censorship, authoritarianism, and capitalism, exhibiting across the U.S., Australia, and Europe. He has been interviewed by The Washington Post, The Guardian, Time, and CNN, and profiled by The New York Times and 60 Minutes. In 2020, he won the Human Rights Foundation’s Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent. He lives in exile in Australia. You Must Take Part in Revolution is his debut graphic novel.
Melissa Chan [HK/TWN/US]
Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated Hong Kong and Taiwanese American journalist based between Los Angeles and Berlin. Previously posted in China, she became the first journalist in over a decade to be expelled by authorities. She has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, and reported for VICE News and Al Jazeera. You Must Take Part in Revolution is her debut graphic novel.
Dan Ilic
Dan Ilic is an ‘Investigative Humourist’ and one of Australia’s most prolific comedy voices, spanning TV, film, radio and the occasional war zone. Host of the four-time Australian Podcast Award-winning A Rational Fear, he uses comedy to wrestle with climate change, press freedom and the big messy questions of our time. He’s sold out the Sydney Opera House, run satirical shows for the ABC, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to shame Australia’s climate record on a Times Square billboard, and been recognised by the Obama Foundation as an Asia Pacific Leader. He makes smart, stupid things.
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