메리 고드윈 [Mary Godwin]

For the 1831 third edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote a new preface that set the scene for how she came to write her famous book: a rainy summer with friends on Lake Geneva, a ghost story contest, conversations on daring scientific experimentation, and a waking nightmare. In doing so, she wrote herself into the story, adding a biographical layer to the Frankenstein myth that has become, to many, as compelling as the novel itself. This manhwa (Korean for “comic book”) features Mary Godwin as its protagonist and tells a fictionalized version of the origins of Frankenstein. When published in 2005, the book’s writer and illustrator, both women, were about 20—the same age as Mary Shelley when she published Frankenstein.