Korean Comics Gain Popularity in North America

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Korean Comics Gain Popularity in North America

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Article: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/87045-korean-comics-gain-popularity-in-north-america.html
Journal: Publishers Weekly
Issued Date: August 04, 2021
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED STATES
City: -
Book: Grass , The Waiting , Nineteen , Moms
Writer: Kim Keumsuk , Ancco , Yeong-shin Ma
Translator: Janet Hong

About the Author

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Birth : 1971 ~ -
Occupation : cartoonist
First Name : Keumsuk
Family Name : Kim
Korean Name : 김금숙
ISNI : 0000000477401160
Works : 28

Ancco
Birth : 1983 ~ Unknown
Occupation : Cartoonist
First Name : Angkko
Family Name : -
Korean Name : 앙꼬
ISNI : 0000000478972707
Works : 4

Yeong-shin Ma
Birth : 1982 ~ -
Occupation : cartoonist
First Name : 영신
Family Name : 마
Korean Name : 마영신
ISNI : -
Works : 5

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English(English)

There’s more to Korean comics than webtoons. While vertical-scroll digital comics have surged in popularity among English speakers since the Netcomics, Webtoon, and Tapas Media platforms started publishing Korean comics in English, the growth in popularity of print manhwa (the Korean term for comics) in North America has been more of a slow burn. While manhwa overall remains a small category in the print comics world, the category is growing in the North American marketplace. Drawn and Quarterly has published several manhwa a year since 2017, and their 2019 manhwa, Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, a powerful story of sexual slavery during WWII, won the Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year and was nominated for two Eisner awards. Chugong’s Solo Leveling, an action fantasy manhwa that started out as an online webtoon, has been a bestseller in print for Yen Press. Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada with art by Hyung-Ju Ko, a memoir of Sook’s college years under a repressive Korean government, was published by Iron Circus Comics and nominated for an Eisner Award this year. And in August, Ablaze Comics will publish the first volume of the action manhwa The Breakers, by Jeon Guk-jin and Kamaro, as a 400-page omnibus.

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