HODO
A Life In Two Acts
$51.07
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2026
Summary
A deeply affecting portrait of a woman’s life from the author of the Harvey Award-winning Moms.
At first there was “Lake,” and then there was “Island.” Or was it the other way around? A story told in two parts, it is up to the reader to determine where they’d like to begin this eerie journey. Based on a true story that Yeong-shin Ma felt compelled to help share, together these two parts are Hodo—the story of a painter, whose hard and dark past is brought to life with sensitivity and a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770468467 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770468463 |
| Author: | Yeong-shin Ma |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 148mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
This wry story, drawn with pen on paper, follows three friends a novelist, a painter and a musician as they struggle with creative obstacles, daily tedium and the pretensions of their wounded egos. The New York Times. Don t sleep on the work of Yeong-shin Ma. The Toronto Star. This darkly comic tale of three hapless and macho males fixes a boldly satirical eye on Korean society. The Guardian
Yeong-shin Ma
Yeong-shin Ma was born in Seoul in 1982. He made his debut in 2007 and began publishing webtoon comics in 2015. Though comics publishing has moved from print to digital in Korea, he still prefers to work with pen and paper. Moms, his first book to be published in English, received the Harvey Award for Best International Book. He is also the author of Artist.
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