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Yeong-shin Ma
🇰🇷South Korea
Yeong-shin Ma's graphic novel Artist is a raw, unflinching autobiographical work about the struggles of making art in contemporary South Korea — the financial precarity, the self-doubt, the gap between creative ambition and daily reality. Ma draws with an energy that mirrors his subject matter: rough, urgent, honest. The book has been praised for its willingness to show the unglamorous side of the artistic life without self-pity, offering instead a portrait of stubborn dedication in the face of indifference.
