RCF / November 30, 2020

jun de Keum Suk Gendry-Kim Quand une petite fille raconte Jun son grand frère , jeune homme autiste devenu artiste renommé grace à sa rencontre avec le Pansori(...)

London Free Press (Blogs) / -

One thing about this year that didn’t suck was the work done by comic creators, both locally and elsewhere. Here’s my annual list of the best in graphic novels.   5. Moms All I ask from a comic is that it have compelling characters in interesting situations. That’s what Yeong-shin Ma does with this tragicomedy about four desperate women in Seoul.(...)

Avoir-Alire / December 21, 2020

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim entremêle habilement engagement politique et vie privée de l’héroïne, dont la vie agitée tâche d’être conforme à sa recherche d’émancipation. Le lecteur voyage avec plaisir dans un espace qu’il méconnaît en même temps qu’il découvre cette figure militante attachante.

BOOK RIOT / December 16, 2020

With new releases from Elena Ferrante, Scholastique Mukasonga, Sayaka Murata, Dubravka Ugresic, and acclaimed translators Ann Goldstein, Jordan Stump, Ginny Tapley Takemori, and Ellen Elias-Bursać, this past fall was always going to be an astonishingly good season for new books in translation but it blew away even my high expectations! I’m thrilled to select some of the best fall 2020 books in translation and highlight the incredible range of titles available—including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.  

actua BD / December 30, 2020

La scène mondiale accueille la plus française des autrices coréennes. L’année où les déplacements sont entravés, son œuvre est remarquée sur plusieurs continents, primée à New-York, publiée par trois éditeurs en français, exposée sur trois continents. Portrait d’un phénomène du roman graphique.

Torre de Vigilância / December 29, 2020

Olá pessoal! Que ano né? Nossa parece até que estamos somente esperando o 2021 começar para soltarmos um grande “UFA!” por tudo que aconteceu em 2020. Lá no réveillon de 2019, quando todos comemoravam, brindavam e projetávamos o 2020, nunca imaginaríamos que iriamos estar passando pano com álcool em pacote de arroz.  

The Guardian / December 08, 2019

This would have been an extraordinary year for graphic novels even had no other comics save for Seth’s Clyde Fans (Drawn & Quarterly) and Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown (Jonathan Cape) been published. Seth’s book is a history of mid-century capitalism disguised as the story of two elderly brothers; Ware’s uses a single day in a Nebraska high school in the 1970s to tell, in characteristically frown-inducing manner, a host of very human stories. Both are utterly amazing; both push the form in new directions. That said, even without them it would have been an exceptional 12 months. I could write a piece three times as long as this and still have to leave out several favourites. (..)

PopMatters / February 12, 2020

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's powerful graphic novel Grass could not have hit the shelves at a more timely moment. Originally published in South Korea in 2017, Janet Hong's English-language translation for Drawn & Quarterly came out in the summer of 2019. It tells the story of Korean comfort women – a term "widely used to refer to the victims of Japanese sexual slavery," the author explains.

la Repubblica / February 22, 2020

Una realtà ostile in cui una natura tanto meravigliosa e altera quanto distante e indifferente assiste allo sviluppo delle umane tragedie: è questo il mondo che Keum Suk Gendry-Kim tratteggia in "Le Malerbe"

staynerd / October 23, 2019

Il 10 ottobre 2019 la casa editrice BAO Publishing ha portato in Italia Le Malerbe, ultimo lavoro della fumettista coreana Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. Si tratta di una graphic novel dai toni autobiografici, nata dopo anni di lavoro grazie alla testimonianza diretta di una sopravvissuta alle atrocità della Seconda Guerra Mondiale.