What is it like to be a middle-aged woman? A son asked his mother – then wrote a comic

South Korean cartoonist Yeong-shin Ma lived with his mother until he was almost 30. When he moved out he asked his mother to fill out a notebook detailing her life. Her brutally honest response lead to his graphic novel Moms.

"Lee Soyeon, Myeong-ok, and Yeonjeong are all mothers in their mid-fifties. And they've had it. They can no longer bear the dead weight of their partners or the endless grind of menial jobs where their bosses control everything, down to how much water they can drink. Although Lee Soyeon divorced her husband years ago after his gambling drove their family into bankruptcy, she finds herself in another tired and dishonest decade-long relationship with Jongseok, a slimy waiter at a nightclub. Meanwhile, Myeong-ok is having an illicit affair with a younger man, and Yeonjeong, whose husband suffers from erectile dysfunction, has her eye on an acquaintance from the gym." 

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