Ancco – Drawn & Quarterly (original) (raw)
Ancco began publishing diary comics in 2002 to quick acclaim, capturing an audience with the immediacy and honesty of her cartooning. Rooted in her lived experience, Ancco's works of fiction share these strengths, bringing an authentic and genuine voice to a generation of Korean youth. The original edition of her most recent graphic novel, Bad Friends, won the Korean Comics Today prize. The french translation (which was her second book to be translated into french),won the Prix Révélation at Angoulême in 2016, a prize awarded to stand-out work from young cartoonists. Ancco was born in 1983 just outside of Seoul, Korea, in Seongnam.
October 23, 2020
Hyperallergic Reviews Nineteen
“I don’t even know who the weirdo is — me or everyone else. ” These words, spoken by one of the characters in An...
September 22, 2020
ComicBook.com Reviews Nineteen
Coming of age stories are often some of the most compelling in entertainment of all forms, partly due to the shared expe...
March 21, 2019
Library Comic Reviews Bad Friends
I always suspect there are great, gritty Korean comics out there, but too much of the time the only manwha I can find on...
October 27, 2020
For Your Consideration
2020 has been an unprecedented year in pretty much every way. We are overjoyed to have published 23 titles by outstanding…
August 6, 2020
D+Q’s FCBD 2020
This year, we’re releasing two FCBD issues: Manhwa: Contemporary Korean Comics and Little Lulu: No Boys Allowed! In stead of one single Free Comic…
December 19, 2019
Free Comic Book Day 2020!
We are so excited to share D+Q’s 2020 Free Comic Book Day contribution! This year, we are releasing TWO silver level…
October 31, 2018
For Your Consideration
2018 has been an exciting year for books! This year we had the pleasure of publishing 27 of ‘em, 11 books…
October 15, 2018
Bad Friends by Ancco
I remember the first time I flipped through Ancco’s Bad Friends. It was the French translation, my language skills too poor…
January 15, 2018
Fall 2018: Bad Friends by Ancco
A story of the enduring quality of female friendship amid a gritty landscape of abuse… In stores September 25 (more…)