Naturally, I see a lot of myself in Park, a woman who exists as an everyman in many ways. They were means to an end – guaranteed funding to my future career writing, naturally – that ended up becoming my means and end, as I’m now a 30 year old working at an advertising agency (in online and social media, not copywriting) that moonlights as a comic journalist. I went to college with the very vague idea of studying creative writing, but when I realized I could write with whatever degree I earned, I pursued degrees in two different business disciplines instead. It’s a pretty universal feeling, that wayward sense of drifting through your life, especially (and strangely) in today’s culture where technology has created an immersive global environment that is inescapable, mostly by choice.īut for me, it’s a lot more specific. It’s about twenty-something English literature student turned ad copy writer Corinna Park, a young woman who struggles with feelings that she’s wasting her time with often futile efforts to maintain a life she hardly likes, let alone loves.
That’s not to say it’s not wholly relatable to large portions of its potential audience, though. Michael Cho‘s debut graphic novel, “ Shoplifter“, is a bit more relatable for me than it likely is for others.
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