Ancco

Ancco’s Picture Diary

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photo by Lauren Pak

Ancco was born in 1983 in Seongnam, Korea. She began publishing diary comics in 2002 to quick acclaim. The original edition of Bad Friends won the Korean Comics Today prize, and its French translation won the Prix Révélation at Angoulême in 2016, a prize awarded for young cartoonists.

Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver. Her translation of Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale was a finalist for both the 2018 PEN Translation Prize and the 2018 National Translation Award. She has also translated Ancco’s Bad Friends, Seong-nan Ha’s Flowers of Mold, and Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass.