by M.T. Bennett When Art Spiegelman wrote Maus, a story of his father’s life as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, he showed us the poignant power graphic novels have in telling the horrific stories of war-torn places. Devastating prose combined with stark black and white images paint stories of some of humanities greatest tragedies. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim has followed Spiegelman’s footsteps and become a master of using the medium to share the horrors of war. From her recently published The Naked Tree, a story told about life during the Korean War, to Grass a story of Japanese Imperial atrocities… Read More
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