'The Waiting' is an unflinching portrayal of the separations caused by war
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's harrowing new graphic novel was inspired by her own family history — Gendry-Kim was an adult when she discovered that she had a long-lost aunt possibly trapped in North Korea.
South Korean comic artist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim really began to think about her identity while she was studying art in France in the early 2000s — fielding question after question from uninformed locals sharpened her sense of the divisions and the lack of resolution in Korea's history, and her own.
, her latest work since — a 2019 critically-acclaimed graphic novel on the plight of a Korean woman forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during WWII — continues Gendry-Kim's unflinching portrayal of the displacement caused by war,
