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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
🇰🇷South Korea
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim is one of the most important graphic novelists working in Korean today. Grass — her devastating account of a Korean "comfort woman" during World War II — earned international recognition for its unflinching yet compassionate portrayal of wartime sexual slavery. The Naked Tree adapts Park Wan-suh's classic novel about the Korean War with visual sensitivity. My Friend Kim Jong Un brings her sharp eye to the absurdities of North Korean leadership. Gendry-Kim's art style is raw and expressive, her ink lines carrying the weight of historical trauma without melodrama. Her work has become essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Korea's painful twentieth century.
