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Summary: Thoughtful, poignant, funny and just a tough of vulgar...
Review: Derek Kirk Kim is a talented and powerful storyteller. The characters are people you either already know or would like to. His draftmanship is superb, he doesn't cut corners with the art. Every story is daring in its honesty and astute in its observation. I highly recommend this graphic novel.
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Summary: Utterly beautiful work.
Review: Derek Kirk Kim is one of the very, very few uproariously talented cartoonists out there who's also a crack-shot writer. I'm a big comics fan, but my tastes err on the side of the artwork. Derek's book won me over for looks hands down. It's normally an added and rare bonus when good writing accompanies the art that makes me buy a book. Derek's book bore such a bonus. Even more rare is the occurrence of top notch art and quality writing coming from the same creator. Derek must have a small star where his brain ought to be. To be as talented as he is to be literally celestial. To produce such grounded, human subject matter that rings true and promises to outlive fad culture is also super(above)normal. The Xeric grant and the coveted Eisner award could not have been given to a more worthy creator. With or without that prestige, Derek's work deserves your attention. BUY HIS BOOK SO HE'LL WRITE MORE.
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Summary: Awesome work!
Review: Derek Kirk's work is a hallmark of the very best stuff that came from the webcomics era. At first you can be misguided to think it's too focused on the "american-korean blues", but Derek's work goes well beyond that - it sure has an autobiographical tone, but you become quickly involved with the environment.This book is a unique opportunity to have it in print, and I recommend it as much as the online version.
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Summary: Awesome work!
Review: Derek Kirk's work is a hallmark of the very best stuff that came from the webcomics era. At first you can be misguided to think it's too focused on the "american-korean blues", but Derek's work goes well beyond that - it sure has an autobiographical tone, but you become quickly involved with the environment. This book is a unique opportunity to have it in print, and I recommend it as much as the online version.
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Summary: Pork Rinds
Review: 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. Sorry to ramble, but this is the effect the series has on me. Great book which shows the multi facets of Kim's talents.
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Summary: Humor and intrigue... Derek Kirk Kim rocks.
Review: I absolutely adore this beautiful, beautiful, beautiful book. I read his stuff before, via smallstoriesonline.com, but I'm girl who likes things in print. Anyway, I deeply dig the art, style, storytelling, humor and well, everything. My personal favorite, besides "Same Difference", has to be either "Hurdles" or "Valentine's Day", yet I love them all... His work truly moves me.
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Summary: You can go back home.
Review: Simon is a Korean-American who takes his friend Nancy back to his home town in search of a guy she's been secretly swapping love letters with although she's never met him. After learning the truth of who he really is, Nancy gets to nervous to approach him, plus Simon runs into his old schoolmate who had a crush on him, but he could never tell her how he felt about her because he was embarrassed of her being blind. This plus some really funny short comics from the Small Stories webcomic at smallstories.com. If your a fan of anime, or just funny romance comics, then this should make you laugh, and maybe even cry.
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