"Diary of Red Panda" is a comic that I, Asnawy Mohamad, created to share my experiences as a Cham American. Cham are an Indigenous group whose ancestors link back to the Ancient Kingdom of Champa, which sat in present-day Central and Southern Vietnam. The Kingdom of Champa existed from 192 CE until 1832 CE when the last principality was annexed by Emperor Minh Mạng. The Cham people have endured generations of forced migrations, cultural erasure, and genocide. I can't speak for the experiences of every member of the Cham diaspora but I create this comic to make my existence known. We are not an extinct people. I hope you enjoy my silly comics about a red panda from Central Pennsylvania making silly little diary comics.
If you would like to read more, you can find new comic strips every Wednesday at 3 PM on Webtoon Canvas or on Instagram.
#21 Phooey
Being a substitute is my day job and seeing the interactions of the youth is pretty hilarious. Many days can be mentally exhausting, though.
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#22 Ancient Civilization
This is based on when I wrote an essay on the Ancient Kingdom of Champa in middle school. The teacher gave me a failing grade on it because she didn’t believe it to be a true civilization. It was pretty traumatizing and many of my friends couldn’t really understand the pain that came with it.
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#23 Salud
Hamster is a native Spanish speaker and Red Panda is just trying his best.
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#24 Half The Time, I Got Tunes On
Music is life, music is love.
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#25 Window Shopping
This is the first comic strip of “Diary of Red Panda”. The comics originally started as pencil comics with watercolors and slowly progressed into fully inked strips. I have fond memories of making this after going through so many job interviews and submitting so many job applications to no avail. Who would have guessed that I would still be working on this after 2 years? Who knows, maybe one day I can catch up with the amount of "Peanuts" strips that exist. Sometimes quantity can be just as impressive as quality if the quantity is big enough.
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#26 Bird Watching
Hamster loves birdwatching, so you’ll see some interactions she has with these feathered friends.
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#27 Head In The Clouds
This strip was drawn without any pencil sketching so if I messed up a panel, I would have had to redraw it. Some of these panels took hours to make despite how simple they look.
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#28 Things Would Be Much Different
I often write a lot of my scripts in the notes app on my phone. Many times these scripts stay on my phone for a couple months and even years. This is mainly because I don’t know what I want the characters to do with the script or even which characters would fit in the script. A lot of these times my scripts are written without any characters in mind.
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#29 They Say Dress For The Job You Want…
If I can make enough money with my art, I would totally become the unemployed friend at 2PM on a Tuesday.
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