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Yeong-shin Ma

Teoksen Moms tekijä

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Tekijän teokset

Moms (2015) 53 kappaletta
Artist (2022) — Tekijä — 13 kappaletta
Les daronnes (2023) 1 kappale
Moms 1 kappale

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Yleistieto

Muut nimet
마영신
Syntymäaika
1982
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
South Korea
Syntymäpaikka
Seoul, South Korea

Jäseniä

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3 Korean artists--a writer/webcomic artist, a professor/painter, and a musician/songwriter-- struggle in their 40s with finding work until each finds his own success of sorts, but they continue to struggle for the most part with personal relationships, including with each other.

Kind of interesting, with some background into the Korean music and publishing industries, but these guys are for the most part unlikeable. The funny head guy (the writer/webcomic publisher) at least has managed to maintain a solidly loving relationship with his wife and kid, and the old professor guy generally does ask women if he can kiss them before making his advances at least, but at first they are just three big losers who become bigger jerks as the story goes on.… (lisätietoja)
 
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reader1009 | 1 muu arvostelu | Mar 17, 2023 |
Books that review themselves:
"Trust me, instead of addressing something head on . . . a book that's part-healing journey, part-advice, part-musings . . . People really dig that kind of stuff these days." (p. 66)

Three men in their forties feel left behind by the success of their artistic peers. Their friendship falters as each makes another stab at a career breakthrough with varying degrees of success and many degrees of pettiness, jealousy, egotism, and sexual harassment. The men behaving badly schtick goes on a little too long -- over 600 pages! -- but their lives are nearly as compelling as they are repulsive, so I found myself shooting through most of the book in one shot.

I'm reminded of my review of the same cartoonist's Moms:
The storyline meanders slice-of-life style a bit too long, but I slowly became vested in the sad sack main character even as I resented her for making so many wrong choices in her life.

FOR REFERENCE:

Omnibus collection of the two-volume Korean series:
• 아티스트 (Artist) Vol. 1 ISBN 1196458650 / 9791196458652, June 2019
• 아티스트 (Artist) Vol. 2 ISBN 1196458669 / 9791196458669, June 2019

Note: It does not include the spin-off book 아티스트 곽경수의 길 (Artist: Kwak Kyungsoo's Road) ISBN 1190569191 / 9791190569194, May 2020.
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villemezbrown | 1 muu arvostelu | Feb 27, 2023 |
This comic is really really good! (Sorry, my review skills don't go further than this, but needed to share at least this!)
 
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izzy_my | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 11, 2022 |
I have been thinking about reading this graphic novel ever since it was published in English two years ago. I finally took the plunge and took it out of my public library. Moms is a humorous look at the way middle aged women think. Taking place in South Korea, there are three main characters. Lee Soyeon, Myeong-ok, and Yeonjeong are mothers in their mid-fifties. They’ve had it with their dead-weight partners and the grind of the menial jobs they have. Their overbearing bosses control everything, down to how much water they can drink while they are working. Lee Soyeon divorced her husband years ago after his gambling debts forced them to file bankruptcy. She finds herself in another decade-long relationship with Jongseok, a waiter at a nightclub whom she has grown tired of. Myeong-ok is having an illicit affair with a younger man, and Yeonjeong, whose husband suffers from erectile dysfunction, has her eye on an acquaintance from the gym. All three of these ladies have become bored with conventional romantic dalliances and are embracing outrageous sexual adventures in nightclubs, motels, and even the occasional back-alley. I think they are giving twentysomething women a run for their money.

It is refreshing to read a book about the emotional and sexual needs of middle aged women. This is not something you find very often. The author, Yeong-shin Ma based the story on his divorced 50 year old mother. He asked his mother keep a journal where she would write about her dating experiences. He also asked her to write about her girlfriends, who were also on the dating scene. What Ma discovered was that older women do not put aside their desires just because they are no longer young. I wonder if he was shocked to find this out. I am betting that he was.
… (lisätietoja)
 
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Violette62 | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 15, 2022 |

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