Angkko
1) Nineteen
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ancco looks back at her own tumultuous adolescence, from the not-so-distanced lens of a twenty-something. A mother's struggles mirror her teen's. Memories of care between the cartoonist and her grandmother--before faculties had started to fade. Quick judgments look ugly through the eyes of a teen, who's leaning into her own sense of self"--Back cover.
2) Bad friends
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power...