"The Waiting" is currently being translated into six languages. It tells the story of a family's heartbreak following the country's division into North and South.
Gendry-Kim's latest book "The Waiting," inspired by her mother's personal experience, revolves around Gwija, who was separated from her husband and son during the Korean War. In addition to the Harvey Award, the book also earned the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, Krause Essay Prize, and nominations for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Eisner Awards, Believer Book Award, Ringo Award, YALSA Alex Award and YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens list. Based on the testimony of the now elderly survivor of wartime sex slavery, Lee Ok-sun, Gendry-Kim addresses issues related to women and social class. "Grass," which has been translated into 14 languages, depicts the life of a "comfort woman," a victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery.
She was the first Korean cartoonist to win the prize, becoming a trailblazer in showing how subtle and serious the graphic narrative can be. GANGHWA ISLAND ― In 2020, cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's graphic novel "Grass" won the prestigious Harvey Award for best international comic book. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.Graphic novelist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim poses after an interview with The Korea Times at a cafe on Ganghwa Island, Jan. The cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee’s memories. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee’s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War―a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history.īeginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child’s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans.
This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s lives
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