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During the month of May, the United States celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The team at Kwento Comics has been a driving force behind positive awareness and community engagement, to help bring Asian American and Pacific Islander creators into the spotlight.

We asked Waverley Lim, COO and Co-Founder of Kwento Comics, to share her experience from a very busy month, so we can learn more about the people behind the stories we all have come to enjoy. She was excited to participate, so I now turn it over to Waverley for the remainder of the article.

By Waverley Lim, Kwento Comics

Kwento Comics kicked off AAPI Heritage...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and we're celebrating AAPI voices within our own community. Earlier this month, we put out tweets asking AAPI creators to share their work with us, and the list we're featuring today is the culmination of that. Show your support by exploring the unique stories they're telling!

Past Blazes Future Path, 70 pages - Published by VictoryDrawsManga, (cc/ @VictoryDraws)

It is the time of the 1920’s, the Roaring 20’s in the United States, set in the city of Los Angeles, California. Chiyoko A. Naruhodo- The daughter of two renowned lawyers just reached the legal age of 21, celebrating this great time...

These aren't your average magical girls! The comics on this list are full of fantastical leading women. Some are out to help and some want revenge and destruction, just don't cross any of them: a thousand-year hunt, a torn kingdom, a strange mask, a war path to the moon and more! These ladies are out on a mission for today's Popular Last Week:

Celestis, 71 pages - Published by SparkleArts, (cc/ @SparkleArts)

Yana thought she had left her life as a Celestian warrior behind. As her friendship with the Knights of Nosheau grows stronger by the day, so does imposing the threat of the Oashum Empire. Called to face the consequences of her past, her present grows more complex....