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	KSW : APAture 2004 : Derek Kirk Kim
		Derek Kirk Kim was born at home in Kumi, South Korea in 1974.
		Kim's self-effacing wit, ear for dialogue, and meticulous art style earned him the Xeric Grant as well as an Ignatz Award in 2002 and 2003, respectively.
		Derek Kirk Kim was born in Kumi, South Korea in 1974, and has been writing and drawing as far back as he can remember.
	www.kearnystreet.org /programs/ksw-next/apature2004/artists/Derekkim.html (412 words)

	Same Difference & Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim, ISBN: 1891830570 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Derek Kirk's work is a hallmark of the very best stuff that came from the webcomics era.
		Derek Kirk Kim is one of the very, very few uproariously talented cartoonists out there who's also a crack-shot writer.
		Derek Kirk Kim, on the other hand, clearly loves his work and this collection, which you can see on his website as well as buy cool wallets, is fantastic.
	www.campusi.com /isbn_1891830570.htm (778 words)

	Encyclopedia: Derek Kirk Kim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Kim has developed a reputation as a wunderkind, a natural-born talent to whom genius comes easily, when in fact he is a classic example of the man who worked for years to become an overnight success.
		Kim is a maestro at capturing the perfect offhanded expression, the perfect revealing pose, the snapshot that freezes time at just the right moment, with such apparent ease that it seems almost unconscious, desultory.
		Kim inspires comparisons to Robert Crumb, whom he resembles in many respects: his nebbishy neuroses, his attachment to rounded, cartoony-cute art, the care and precision of his drawing, the heavily autobiographical nature of his writing, his eagerness to wade into the stickiest recesses of his soul.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Derek-Kirk-Kim (749 words)

	Derek Kirk Kim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Derek Kirk Kim is a Korean-American cartoonist living in the San Francisco Bay area of California.
		Derek Kirk Kim was born in 1974 in Kumi, South Korea, and came to the United States when he was 8.
		Some critics have noted a misanthropic, or even slightly misogynistic undercurrent in Kim's work (see "Derek Kirk Kim: A Critic's Roundtable," linked below in References), though it is somewhat mitigated by the sunny, airy and humorous overall presentation of the material.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Kirk_Kim (350 words)

	KSW : APAture 2004 : Derek Kirk Kim
		Derek Kirk Kim was born at home in Kumi, South Korea in 1974.
		Kim's self-effacing wit, ear for dialogue, and meticulous art style earned him the Xeric Grant as well as an Ignatz Award in 2002 and 2003, respectively.
		Derek Kirk Kim was born in Kumi, South Korea in 1974, and has been writing and drawing as far back as he can remember.
	kearnystreet.org /programs/ksw-next/apature2004/artists/Derekkim.html (412 words)

	Derek Kirk Kim - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		He won both major industry awards in 2004, the Eisner and the Harvey, for his debut graphic novel Same Difference and Other Stories, which was originally serialized on his website Lowbright.
		In addition, most of the hostility and criticism of Kim's work seems to be self-directed (either explicitly or by skewering protagonists who resemble their creator), perhaps reflecting the influence of Robert Crumb.
		Derek Kirk Kim, References, Comics artists and Comics writers.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Derek_Kirk_Kim (325 words)

	Interview with Derek Kirk Kim
		DKK: I am interested in working through more mainstream venues, where my work could be accessed by your average person who might not normally pick up a comic book.
		DKK: It was one of the best things that happened for me. I'm so grateful that I got it.
		DKK: I have a lot of projects in the works with several publishers, but I'm afraid I can't disclose info about any of them at the moment.
	www.comicbookbin.com /charlie38.html (1121 words)

	PopImage
		Warren Ellis recently mentioned Derek Kim in one of his Bad Signal emails, saying that Kim was someone who pretty soon would have lots of people claiming that they knew him when he was just starting out.
		The environments that Kim creates for his characters to inhabit are so convincing that you almost experience a physical sensation when the story moves on and that environment is left behind.
		Derek Kim is one of the artform's true geniuses: a man with great ability as both a writer and an artist who has been able to bring the two together in a way that perfectly demonstrates the breadth, depth and true capacity of comics as a story-telling device par excellence.
	www.popimage.com /content/viewnews.cgi?newsid1093367497,87287, (1131 words)

	comicreaders.com - Same Difference and Other Stories
		Derek Kirk Kim has made a name for himself with his Web comic.
		Derek Kirk Kim, however, does an equally fine job of exploration, both in writing and art.
		Comparing Kim's work to that of Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine and Joe Matt might seem to be a disservice to Kim.
	www.comicreaders.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=84 (1167 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Same Difference and Other Stories
		Kim's artwork can be seen in full color glory at www.smallstoriesonline.com and he keeps the site updated with serials and stand-alone strips on a (most of the time) regular basis.
		Kim's artistic style has such incredible range and depth that the fl and white pages are full of life and humor.
		Kim is very proud of his Korean heritage and it does come through in his work, but not in a preachy manner.
	www.sfsite.com /09a/sz159.htm (512 words)

	Sequential Tart - The Report Card
		I stumbled across Derek Kirk Kim's webcomic, Same Difference, some time back and really liked it, so when I saw a solicitation in Previews for a collection of his comics, I was all over it.
		I think Kirk Kim has guts for puutting his life out there this way, and the stories were really touching.
		Kirk Kim's work is fresh because he has a sharp eye for the important details and a deft hand at weaving them into stories.
	sequentialtart.com /archive/dec02/reports.php?ID=2559&issue=2003-09-01 (396 words)

	Critics Roundtable: Derek Kirk Kim
		Kim's fluency in comic styles and dabbling in them makes me suspect that the adolescent themes are simply a comics style point, a hanger-on from a life spent reading comics with this undercurrent that he hasn't shaken off yet.
		Kim claimed that it was just one story in a big fat book full of them, so it probably has a wider purpose that I'm not aware of.
		We have all seem to have come to the conclusion that Derek Kirk Kim is a genuinely nice guy who just happens to be a technically brilliant artist.
	webcomicsreview.com /examiner/issue040913/dkkrt2.html (4277 words)

	Bookslut \| Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim
		The comic book, reflecting their young creator, dwell on pressing issues that plague our particular generation of vaguely unhappy twentysomethings, from looking for love in all the wrong places, leftover high school angst, problems with the family, and searching for that small slice of heaven, a carton of Cherry Garcia ice cream.
		Kim brings his own personal slant to the stories by referring to his Korean heritage, but the comics don’t get bogged down with identity issues and instead uses his background to self-deprecating ends in scatological discussions about Korean toilets and getting metaphorically shafted with a broomstick by God and posh Korean girls.
		You can tell that Kim puts a lot of himself in these pieces, if not exact personal information the import and feelings that underpin the experiences of so many of his peers.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2004_12_003795.php (491 words)

	Derek Kirk Kim’s Healing Hands » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
		Derek’s original series of web-comics were compiled and published in the critically acclaimed, Same Difference and Other Stories.
		This entry was posted on Monday, January 16th, 2006 at 3:56 pm by Matt and is filed under Comics, Blogs.
		Derek is too talented for his own good.
	drawn.ca /2006/01/16/derek-kirk-kims-healing-hands (183 words)

	NPR : Graphic Novelist with a Comic Sensibility
		But Kim's sensitive and humorous work soon began receiving nominations for some of the comic world's top awards, and today, the San Francisco-based storyteller is one of the industry's rising stars.
		At the age of 30, Kim has already won the "triple crown" of comic honors: the 2003 Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent, the 2004 Eisner Award for Name Deserving of Wider Recognition, and a 2004 Harvey Award for Best New Talent.
		Kim, who was born in Korea and moved to the United States when he was 8, talks with NPR's Jacki Lyden about his work.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4271874 (294 words)

	NEWSARAMA - SF'S SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT FEATURES DEREK KIM KIM
		Kim found a massive audience when he began serializing his comics on his website, www.smallstoriesonline.com.
		In this exhibition, Kim demonstrates the creative process that takes his work from the sketchbook to the hand-drawn page to the final product as it appears in print.
		Kim answers the age-old question “How do you get your ideas down on paper?” as he leads visitors through the development of a typical Small Stories comic.
	www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6978 (471 words)

	Journal of Pirate Lingo
		Derek Kirk Kim is one of those 21st century mavericks using the internet to disseminate their work.
		Kim’s drawing style is cleaner and crisper than Robinson and Brown.
		His characters are also more verbose; their conversations are circuitous and whimsical, touching on topics such as “who eats the shit of the fly?” The tone is lighter than the other two books-- there are some poignant moments, but overall it's a lot more humorous.
	jcruelty.diaryland.com /041001_57.html (1308 words)

	Sequential Tart - The Report Card
		I stumbled across Derek Kirk Kim's webcomic, Same Difference, some time back and really liked it, so when I saw a solicitation in Previews for a collection of his comics, I was all over it.
		I think Kirk Kim has guts for puutting his life out there this way, and the stories were really touching.
		Kirk Kim's work is fresh because he has a sharp eye for the important details and a deft hand at weaving them into stories.
	www.sequentialtart.com /reports.php?ID=2559&issue=2003-09-01 (396 words)

	iComics.com
		Kim's story impressed me in how its meanderings were able to dip into the past, return to the present, and seemingly head off in a random direction before pulling everything back together while never losing the mood it had generated early on.
		There's a real sense of gracefulness to Kim drawings; the early images of the friends sitting in front of the restaurant fishtank are beautiful, with the fish seemingly floating amongst the people as they talk.
		Kim's art is ultimately a visual chameleon, able to shift just slightly to fit with the exact tone of what he's drawing just then, be it humor, drama, or something in-between.
	www.icomics.com /rev_082903_samedifference.shtml (669 words)

	The Comics Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Derek's website was doing okay on its own, but it was a recommendation from Scott McCloud on his own website that really got Derek noticed.
		To me, what Derek's story proves is that websites can be a cheap alternative to minis as a way to get noticed.
		Derek changed a few things in the Same Difference story, such as the font, due to reader feedback.
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/briefings/letters/680 (439 words)

	Randomville: Same Difference and Other Stories
		Simon spots a blind girl he lied to in high school to get out of a date, and is afraid to approach her to apologize.
		Kim does an excellent job of changing up his characters and their situations, but it’s pretty clear no matter what he does (such as dressing up his sexual frustrations as an olive on a toothpick in “Oliver Pikk”), these stories are his diary.
		Each is delivered with its own unique angle, but the voice is always very clearly Kim’s and more often than not, there’s a fair amount of breezy humor to offset some of the headier themes, yet another thing Kim pulls off with ease and brilliance.
	www.randomville.com /article.html?article=143 (411 words)

	New Pollution - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He's been serializing his tales at SmallStoriesOnline.com for three years, finally packing them into a one-hundred-fifty page collection that can be ordered through the internet (you can get it from some big retailers but it'd be awfully nice if you'd order from his website directly).
		The last six stories are autobiographical, covering Kim's reflections on romance, his own youth, and time spent in Korea.
		He looks at old school newspapers and discusses the finer points of modern bathroom fixtures, giving us a glimpse at his background and, by extension, the mind behind "Same Difference." The autobio portion may seem self-indulgent in places but it's like an artist's journal and can't be held in direct comparison to the main work.
	www.newpollution.net /review.asp?id=129 (1053 words)

	TIME.com -- Andrew Arnold: A Top-Flight Debut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Derek Kirk Kim's debut book, "Same Difference and Other Stories," appeared last year as a self-published paperback, and with a small print run and zero name-recognition it flew under most radars.
		Kim is wise enough to avoid making race the central theme of his work.
		Kim shows a lot of promise in his varied styles and subtle but subversive Asian American angle.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,630501,00.html (906 words)

	Poopsheet:Home
		Kirk Kim uses these two intertwining plots and some lively characters to say a lot about the ways we relate to each other, or more often, fail to relate.
		Kirk Kim recently finished the final chapter, but when I came to it, it was still uncompleted.
		I'm not sure Kirk Kim will appreciate this endorsement – but frankly, his story works as well backwards as forward.
	poopsheet.blogspot.com /2003_04_20_poopsheet_archive.html (1022 words)

	AsianWeek.com
		Derek Kirk Kim, Lark Pien and Jason Shiga are among the cartoonists featured in the Cartoon Art Museum’s ongoing Small Press Spotlight.
		Of the three, Derek Kirk Kim is the only one creating comics full-time — a luxury, he admits, that wouldn’t be possible had he not decided to move back in with his parents.
		Kim successfully applied for the Xeric Grant last year and will use the funds to publish the first title of his own imprint in May.
	news.asianweek.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=bfbc991bb9c916ae31a8de69b7c84dc3 (1725 words)

	Amazon.com: Same Difference & Other Stories: Books: Derek Kirk Kim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For the most part, I am sure that most of you who are interested in purchasing this book have already read all of these stories on Derek Kirk Kim's website, and if you were like me, you were blown away by Kim's skillful artwork and the pure realness of his characters.
		I know this is said about alot of series, but Kim's character are people that you want to know because they seem warm and friendly and they all possess flaws of the average twenty something year old.
		This especially applies to the two main characters of the titl story "Same Difference" Simon and Nancy seem to be the kind of guy girl that one would meet at a cozy bar or coffee house in a college downtown area.
	www.amazon.com /Same-Difference-Other-Stories-Derek/dp/1891830570 (1406 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		1) Derek Kirk Kim- I'm late to the ball on this one.
		This is an example of a comic done right, a true fusion where art nor script overshadow each other, but instead serve the same goal.
		Derek Kirk Kim has won a new fan with this one story.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6558433&postID=109516838787953068 (316 words)

	Lowbright - Comics To Make Love To
		Written by Derek Kirk Kim, Illustrated by Jesse Hamm
		As mentioned above, I'll be at Comic-Con this year via the Cartoon Art Museum booth (E11), at 3 - 4pm on Friday and Saturday.
		But I still mananged to come out of it with a surprising amount of swag through trades and such.
	www.lowbright.com (1202 words)

	Comics Continuum
		After gaining phenomenal popularity and critical acclaim online with smallstoriesonline.com, Derek Kirk Kim collects the stories that garnered him all the attention in the past two years with this handsome new collection.
		Through a series of sensitive--and often hilarious--short stories, Kirk Kim, deftly explores the not-so-average twenty-somethings' quarter-life crisis, romantic neurosis, and perhaps most refreshingly of all, Korean-American life.
		Find out for yourself why Derek Kirk Kim is considered a stand-out among the new generation of cartoonists and a fresh new voice in Asian American literature.
	www.comicscontinuum.com /stories/0302/26/alternative.htm (346 words)

	TalkAboutComics Blog » Neglected Webcomics
		I’m just surprised nobody’s talking about Derek Kirk Kim’s new webcomic, “Healing Hands,” currently being serialized at lowbright.com.
		Derek’s Same Difference remains one of the most important moments in webcomics history — Kim is probably as responsible for inspiring as many webcartoonists to pick up the, um, scanner (?) and start working in the medium as anybody.
		So I think there’s a bit of assumption that people will read Derek’s stuff because it’s Derek MF’n Kirk Kim, and not because everyone is talking about it and telling people of it’s goodness.
	www.talkaboutcomics.com /blog/?p=415 (653 words)

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