![]() ![]() The author’s black-inked landscape vistas are breathtaking. The characters themselves are striking - adults gaunt and angular children softer and less defined - sketched into black and white panels that make for an appropriate depiction of the grim tale. Grass is stark: panels are dark and full of shadows, shading into crepuscular obscurity at especially brutal points of the story. Gendry-Kim’s vantage into this experience comes from Granny Lee Ok-sun, a survivor who shares her life story with the author. ![]() It tells the story of Korean comfort women – a term “widely used to refer to the victims of Japanese sexual slavery,” the author explains. Janet Hong‘s English-language translation for Drawn & Quarterly came out in the summer of 2019. Originally published in South Korea in 2017, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s powerful graphic novel Grass could not have hit the shelves at a more timely moment. ![]()
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