Jangcha, Hyeon-sil

Born in 1964, Jangcha Hyeon-sil studied Asian painting (BFA) at Hongik University. She began to work as a freelance cartoonist with the serialization of her The Lives of Licentious Women in the feminist journal If in 1997. As a mother of a daughter with Down syndrome, she has created works on womanhood, feminism, and disability such as Mommy, Stop Doing the Lonely Thing and Let’s Eat and The Song of Lady Libertine. Jangcha has also serialized cartoons “Face the Reality,” “Starry Child and Realistic Mommy,” “Lady Deokseo,” and “Little Woman, Big Woman” in various dailies including the Hankyoreh and the Kukmin Ilbo, Segye Times, Woman Times, and Women’s News. She and her daughter have also starred in Pink Palace, a documentary on disabled people’s sexuality filmed by her partner Seo Dong-il.