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The Two Worlds of Graphic Novel Umma's Table

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Article
https://www.popmatters.com/yeon-sik-hong-s-ummas-table-2645449729.html
Journal
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Issued Date
March 11, 2020
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Language
English(English)
Country
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Book
Umma's Table
Writer
Hong Yeon-sik
Translator
Janet Hong

About the Author

  • Hong Yeon-sik
  • Birth : - ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Cartoonist, Writer
  • First Name : Yeon-sik
  • Family Name : Hong
  • Korean Name : 홍연식
  • ISNI : 0000000473913556
  • Works : 3
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  • English(English)

Umma's Table features standard cartoon characters: anthropomorphic animals with rounded heads, enormous facial features, and roughly proportional bodies. Emotions are an ever-changing arrangement of minimal lines—worried diagonals, smiling curves, radiating streaks of surprise. But artist Yeon-Sik Hong's hand can also be unexpectedly nuanced.(..)

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