Curiosity Americana Shing Yin Khor explores icons, roadside attractions, and various objects of Americana as part of their effort to find and assert their place as an immigrant within this country’s mythos.

Cover Photo: comic illustration of the author, center, wearing overalls and eating chop suey out of a Chinese takeout box, against an orange background, with large inset ingredients (shrimp, snowpea, diced onion, and mushrooms) arranged around them
How Did Chop Suey Become a Staple of Chinese American Cuisine?

The authenticity of chop suey was always the authenticity of survival, of adaptation. And so, like generations of Chinese Americans, chop suey stayed.

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Shing Yin Khor
Mar 03, 2021
Columns | Curiosity Americana
Cover Photo: illustration of a person with a ponytail + their dog riding in a small blue Honda Fit along historic Route 66, with song lyrics set above and below the frame
Get Your Kicks on Route 66: A Comic

I’ll drive with that tender balance of guilt and curiosity and a lifetime of learning and unlearning, still looking for an America that was there, is there, and will be there.

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Shing Yin Khor
Oct 23, 2020
Columns | Curiosity Americana
Cover Photo: illustration of a person with long black hair leaning backward, grasping a peach they are about to bite into
Stone Fruit Season: A Comic

Yes, I dared to eat a peach. And I had to live, so I could eat another.

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Shing Yin Khor
Aug 21, 2020
Columns | Curiosity Americana
Cover Photo: Illustration by Shing Yin Khor for Catapult
Of Mufflers and Men: A Comic

Adapted and reinvented and reborn—not venerated, but persistent, present, iconic. Is this such a bad fate?

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Shing Yin Khor
May 27, 2020
Columns | Curiosity Americana