Thought Train to Pusan

This is a difficult one, because there is clearly a lot of emotion and depth to what the author is trying to do here, but the problem is that it just didn’t quite come through for me. Her illustrations and artwork are beautiful (that cover alone and the vibrant colours in it are stunning!), and it takes a lot of time and work to create both story and art for graphic novels, but this one here needed a lot more in order for it to work: leaving too much to be read between the lines leaves big gaping holes that are difficult to connect to, or to really follow the story as a cohesive unit. FLEM is about a young woman named Julia, who is struggling through art school, running out of inheritance money, and always coming back to thoughts about her mother and the mental illness she had which seems to have seeped into every aspect of Julia’s life; however, when Julia meets a radical feminist art group, she feels she may have finally found a place for herself in the world...