Tak Toyoshima (born April 11, 1971, in
New York
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,
New York
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) is an American art director with the
Weekly Dig
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and the author of the comic strip ''
Secret Asian Man''.
According to an interview with AArisings, Toyoshima is a second-generation
Japanese American
are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asi ...
born in
New York City
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. He received a degree in
advertising
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from
Boston University
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, and currently resides in
Boston
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.
External links
Secret Asian Man home pageUnited Media home page
1971 births
American comic strip cartoonists
American people of Japanese descent
Artists from New York City
Boston University alumni
Living people
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