Please note that characters are added as they reveal themselves and become part of the story.
The Melancholy Korean is a former derivatives trader living in New York. He loves Dante, James Joyce and Flaubert. He has studied French, German, Japanese, Sanskrit, and Hebrew, but of these languages, he remembers only, "avez-vous un cendrier?" Yes, he smokes. No, he doesn't know Korean.
Leon Badgesis a painter, illustrator, draftsman, and cartoonist.