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.(...)

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

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subiektywnieoksiazkach / March 13, 2023

Tytułowe mamuśki poprawią wam humor, rozczulą i skłonią do pogłębionej refleksji w temacie roli kobiety w koreańskim społeczeństwie i roli kobiety w ogóle. Do tego, komiksowa forma przekazu połączona z czarnym humorem pozwoliła w przypadku tej książki tak połączyć grafikę i tekst, aby w pełni oddać to, czego nie da się przekazać samym słowem.