Artist Badiucao and journalist Melissa Chan release their graphic novel, *You Must Take Part in Revolution*. The works bring together Badiucao’s illustrations and Chan’s writing to present a dystopian future in which the United States and China are at war.
The three outlets describe the project as a departure from anonymity for Badiucao, known for earlier politically focused work. They present the book as a speculative narrative that uses a graphic format to depict conflict and social upheaval, rather than a direct reporting account. Coverage is largely consistent across the outlets, focusing on the novel’s creators and its central premise: a US-China war set in a dystopian setting. While the sources vary in how they frame Badiucao’s background as an “once-anonymous” dissident, they converge on the same basic details of the release and the story’s geopolitical focus.
