Yeong-shin Ma was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1982. At twenty-five years old, after completing his military service, he started drawing comics as part of an indie group. Ma began publishing webtoons in 2015. Moms is his first book to be published in English.
"What a remarkable, joyous book. Our culture, like his, is
hell-bent on rendering middle-aged women invisible, and yet here
are four of them, their lives not only filling every single page of
this comic, but brought to us with such intimacy." --Rachel Cooke,
The Guardian
"The people and events in Soyeon's life are often disappointing but
she perseveres as a sardonic, stubborn hero who finds contentment
in her imperfect relationships and life's mundane drama."
--NPR Best of 2020
"I... just finished reading Moms by Yeong-shin Ma. It's a graphic
novel about a bunch of women in their early 50s that I thought was
really, really beautiful." --Mona Chalabi, New York Times "[The
characters'] greatest challenge, like people everywhere at every
age, is loneliness--but even that can't stop Ma's fearsome mothers
from living their best possible lives."
--Booklist, Starred Review "A portrait of womanhood and middle-age,
where all the women are bright and brash, both victims and
fighters." --Sian Cain, The Guardian "Moms by Yeong-shin Ma...
presents a very real perspective of middle-aged women often not
seen... as Moms shows, these ladies experience excitement, dreams,
and struggles that too often are overlooked."
--BlogCritics "The moms in Moms are grasping, funny, gross, weird,
sad--in other words, they're a lot more interesting and relatable
than middle-aged mothers in pop culture are usually allowed to
be... This is a book with bite."
--Bookriot Best Comics of 2020 "It's extremely relatable, because
the character work is so strong. All their hopes and flaws keep the
narrative running, and its power increases when we see how badly
people can treat each other... D&Q keeps bringing treasures
from around the world to Canada. Long may that continue."
--The Toronto Star "Seeming at first unconventional, one gets the
sense that the women in Moms are not necessarily so; Ma simply
affords them the type of interiority not usually granted to their
demographic, while providing a warts-and-all look at long-term
female friendships."
--Winnipeg Free Press "Offering a unique account of contemporary
Korea and the world from the perspective of women who might
otherwise be overlooked, [Moms] would be a solid addition to any
adult collection."
--Library Journal
"Yeong-shin Ma writes with great sympathy of the struggles of these
middle-aged women, portrayed as humans and not caricatures."
--Asian Review of Books
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