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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.(...)

Publishers Weekly / August 04, 2021

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.

Financial Times / July 29, 2022

Gallerists, actresses, architects and writers share their favourite books, podcasts and music

Quill and Quire / August 17, 2022

With one of the more unusual premises among this fall’s fiction, including narration by the famous Charles Bridge in Prague, Trofimuk tells of the escape of an elephant named Sál from the Prague Zoo, revealing her history and that of the people whose lives she touches as she wanders through the city. –Attila Berki

Publishers Weekly / December 21, 2022

Kate Beaton’s widely acclaimed debut graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly) has topped PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critics Poll for best work of the year by a significant margin, receiving nine votes from PW’s panel of 15 critics. This is Beaton's second time winning the poll; she won in 2011 for Hark A Vagrant.

Mississauga News / December 21, 2022

All through the year our genre columnists keep us updated on the best of the latest new books in their field. We had Crime Fiction last week, Science Fiction in a new column this week and, below the top 5 picks from our Graphic Novel, Genre and Horror writers.

radiofrance / February 06, 2023

"Le récit se coltine l’intimité féminine en la représentant parfois crûment, dans ce qu’elle a de plus burlesque, ou de plus tragique"

Comics Trip / February 06, 2023

Un groupe d’amies quinquagénaires se soutiennent dans les bons comme dans les mauvais moments. Yeong-shin Ma raconte leurs histoires un peu trash dans Les daronnes, un recueil drôle publié par les éditions Atrabile. Réjouissant !

time news / February 25, 2023

Yeong-shin Ma’s book, a diary of her fifty-year-old mother inspired by the little things that make her day, composes an ode to women who refuse to be crushed.

BODOÏ / February 23, 2023

Une fois adulte, se rendant compte de la difficulté de gérer un foyer, l’auteur coréen Yeong-shin Ma a offert un jour un carnet à sa mère, pour qu’elle y raconte les événements les plus marquants de sa vie. Une vie marquée surtout par une double quête sans fin : celle de gagner suffisamment d’argent pour boucler des fins de semaine tendues et celle de trouver un homme stable pour partager sa vie. Alors, s’inspirant du récit maternel, Yeong-shin Ma a composé une bande dessinée fleuve sur des femmes solitaires luttant chaque jour pour un peu de tendresse, un peu de reconnaissance, et peut-être un peu d’espoir de pouvoir vieillir en paix.