NPR Piece on Derek Kirk Kim National Public Radio keeps up its comics onslaught with this piece on Derek Kirk Kim, author of Same Difference & Other Stories. Kim's emergence interests me because it's like his work sort of shimmied to the surface through exposure on-line rather than the more typical arc of someone immediately backing and supporting his stuff through publication. This makes him both a figure in which early fans have a proprietary interest and someone who got to put an initial book out for more general audiences after having worked through some of every artist's initial clumsiness.
National Public Radio keeps up its comics onslaught with 
