{"id":6598,"date":"2004-07-01T20:07:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T00:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2014-05-24T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T14:05:15","slug":"same-difference-and-other-stories-by-derek-kirk-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/same-difference-and-other-stories-by-derek-kirk-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/07\/Same-Difference1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31369\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/07\/Same-Difference1.jpg\" alt=\"Same Difference\" width=\"322\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>After debuting his comics regularly via website (available in color online!) and then self-publishing this first collection which sold out ever\u00a0so quickly, <a href=\"http:\/\/derekkirkkim.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Derek Kirk Kim<\/a>\u00a0has definitely\u00a0become a\u00a0leading name in graphic novels ever since. <em>Same Difference <\/em>found a permanent home and Kim ended up with the industry triple crown for his\u00a0first collection: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\/cci_eisners_faq.shtml#oscars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eisner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harveyawards.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Harvey<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spxpo.com\/?page_id=22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ignatz<\/a>!\u00a0 Not\u00a0surprising, given that his writing is cheeky, funny, surprising, sometimes downright raunchy, and ever-so-often poignantly bittersweet.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0eponymous story\u00a0which takes up\u00a0about 2\/3 of the book is a lingering look at\u00a020-something-ish youth, complete with Cherry Garcia Ben and Jerry&#8217;s to sweeten the alienation. The shorter stories that follow are fresh and irreverent \u2013 with even an embarrassing reference\u00a0to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">a<\/span><\/strong><em>Magazine: Inside Asian America<\/em>, one of my longest writing gigs ever (theater and books) \u2013 complete with aliens, Cupid, cursing students, and a broom-wielding Buddha. Obviously, you gotta read to believe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6661\" title=\"Same Difference\" alt=\"Same Difference\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/same-difference1.jpg\" width=\"129\" height=\"188\" \/>After debuting his comics regularly via website (available in color online!) and then self-publishing this first collection which sold out ever\u00a0so quickly, <a href=\"http:\/\/derekkirkkim.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Kirk Kim<\/a>\u00a0has definitely\u00a0become a\u00a0leading name in graphic novels ever since. <em>Same Difference <\/em>found a permanent home and Kim ended up with the industry triple crown for his\u00a0first collection: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\/cci_eisners_faq.shtml#oscars\" target=\"_blank\">Eisner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harveyawards.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spxpo.com\/?page_id=22\" target=\"_blank\">Ignatz<\/a>!\u00a0 Not\u00a0surprsing, given that his writing is cheeky, funny, surprising, sometimes downright raunchy, and ever-so-often poignantly bittersweet.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0eponymous story\u00a0which takes up\u00a0about 2\/3 of the book is a lingering look at\u00a020-something-ish youth, complete with Cherry Garcia Ben and Jerry&#8217;s to sweeten the alienation. The shorter stories that follow are fresh and irreverent \u2013 with even an embarrassing reference\u00a0to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">a<\/span><\/strong><em>Magazine: Inside Asian America<\/em>, one of my longest writing gigs ever (theater and books) \u2013 complete with aliens, Cupid, cursing students, and a broom-wielding Buddha. Obviously, you gotta read to believe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,73,38,31],"tags":[89,6608,865,10,11,51,4719],"class_list":["post-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-korean-american","category-young-adult-readers","tag-anthology-collection","tag-bookdragon","tag-derek-kirk-kim","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-same-difference-and-other-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/same-difference-and-other-stories-by-derek-kirk-kim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After debuting his comics regularly via website (available in color online!) and then self-publishing this first collection which sold out ever\u00a0so quickly, Derek Kirk Kim\u00a0has definitely\u00a0become a\u00a0leading name in graphic novels ever since. 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