Comics - Black & White/Color Drawn and Quarterly
No Concessions!
ALBO IN PREVENDITA. Perché conviene la Prevendita?
Credits
- scrittore
- Nathan Gelgud
Specifiche Tecniche
- Spedito da
- ItalyComics
- EAN
- 9781770469112
- ISBN
- 9781770469112
Award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim contemplates and explores the long shadow North Korea casts over Korean societyOn an island located an hour from Seoul, North Korea sits visible from cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's home and studio. The specter of the infamous dictatorship and nuclear power looms over daily life. Artillery fire, helicopters, and sirens from a nearby military base paint the acoustic landscape. In her award-winning books Grass and The Waiting, Gendry-Kim documents the pain and heartbreak of Korea's history. In My Friend Kim Jong-Un, she looks to the present-to the man currently responsible for upholding the national divide created after World War Two. While the rest of the world partakes in the popularity of Korean culture, a certain unease and anxiety hangs in the air in South Korea as its people still grapple with the distrust and anger of one culture split into two distinct societies. Gendry-Kim explores the life of the supreme leader, searching for commonalities to make sense of the daily fear: from his birth to his international education, his hobbies, and his relationships. She weaves her personal accounts and includes interviews with former South Korean president Moon Jae-in, North Korean defectors, researchers, journalists, and even Kim's former chef.Translated by the award-winning Janet Hong, My Friend… is a cautionary tale on what makes a dictator, at a time when these lessons are more relevant in the West than ever.
(W) Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (CT) Janet Hong
With those piercing eyes and flicks of the tail, house cats observe domesticity poetically, and with sass?Have you ever given birth before???Me..? No, not yet.??When it happened to me for the first time, it wasn't just kittens that I birthed, but also me as a mother. So now, as I'm raising them, I am also raising myself as a mother? And it ain't no joke! So, no! I don't really have the luxury to think about things like whether my children are 'cute? or not.?These are the simple musings of a house cat, sprawled on a veranda in the sun, while birds flit and flutter by, as she nurses her most recent litter and chats with a curious yearling. But these are also the musings of Yamada Murasaki.Sassy Cats was the pioneering manga artist'sbold return to comics after a yearslong hiatus, during which time she gave birth to two girls. Engaging sensitively and poetically with domesticity, motherhood, and gender relations, Sassy Cats is the work of a master cartoonist, evident in the silky lines of these felines and the textural play at work on the page.??Originally serialized in the legendary alternative magazine Garo between 1979 and 1980, Sassy Cats is translated by Ryan Holmberg and includes an essay by the cartoonist's daughter Yamada Yu about her mom, cats, and growing up with a cartoonist.
(W) Yamada Murasaki (CT) Ryan Holmberg
Utilizziamo cookie o tecnologie simili come specificato nella cookie policy. Puoi acconsentire all’utilizzo di tali tecnologie chiudendo questa informativa.