Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Oct 12, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim |Keiichi Koike |Lee Dean |Matt Madden

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, trans. from Korean by Janet Hong. Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95 trade paper (212p) ISBN 978-1-7704-6731-6Harvey Award winner Gendry-Kim (The Waiting) delivers a poignant semi-autobiographical graphic novel about a couple who love dogs, in a small town that often does not. Yuna and her husband, Hun, move from Seoul to the countryside for their anxious dog Carrot’s benefit (after dosing Carrot with Prozac doesn’t do the trick).

Jun 19, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Illus. by the author. Oct. 2024. 212p. Drawn & Quarterly, paper, $24.95 (9781770467316). 741.5. REVIEW. First published July 2024 (). Gendry-Kim’s fourth extraordinary title arrives, once again translated by notable Korean Canadian Hong, this time tugging, stressing, nearly breaking the heartstrings of pet lovers. Gendry-Kim’s signature black-and-white panels are noticeably darker than light, a foreboding looming throughout.

Jan 18, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Max Winter |Bora Chung |Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Sometimes the transmissions books send us are very simple, as easy as “Love fades” or “Maturing hurts” or “War is hell.” But when we bear down on these concepts, they acquire layers that represent their lives as ideas and their development inside the individual work, with each layer displaying its own peculiar character.

Jun 13, 2023 | booklistonline.com | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Illus. by the author. Aug. 2023. 316p. Drawn & Quarterly, paper, $29.95 (9781770466678). 741.5. REVIEW. First published July 2023 (Booklist). Gendry-Kim and Hong are three-for-three in gifting English-reading audiences another sensational author/translator collaboration illuminating a small window into Korean history after (2019) and (2021).