Secret Asian Man is a discontinued weekly comic strip written and drawn by Tak Toyoshima.
Its title is a mondegreen referring to the song "Secret Agent Man".
The strip appeared weekly starting in 1999, and was published in Boston's Weekly Dig, Metro Silicon Valley, San Jose Mercury News, RedEye, Nichi Bei Times, AsianWeek, Georgia Asian Times, The Everett Herald, and on the internet.
[citation needed] Secret Asian Man was picked up for syndication by United Feature Syndicate (United Media) for its daily run on comics.com, which ran from July 16, 2007, to September 19, 2009.
SAM has three major friends: Richie, a white man; Charlie, a black man; and Grace Patterson, an East Asian American who was adopted by White parents.