![]() ![]() Once isolated as a teen in Alabama, Ha began cooking for her friends as a young adult - many of them, like her, art-school alums and creatives who were strapped for time and cash. One of the hardest things was that in Seoul, I just could run down the street and buy manwha (comics). But it was impossible to find Korean comics there.” Forced to sink or swim with a new language, she picked up English in six months but spent much of her time doodling and slowly befriending the few schoolmates who were enthusiasts of Japanese manga comics in the mid-1990s. I came from Seoul with millions of people and, to me, Huntsville was just fields. “My school didn’t have any English as Second Language classes because I was the only one who couldn’t speak English. “I was friendless,” said Ha, now 35 and living in Falls Church, Virginia. When illustrator Robin Ha moved from bustling Seoul, South Korea to Huntsville, Alabama at age 14, the relocation was like losing her senses. ![]()
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