Small Press Spotlight
featuring Derek Kirk Kim
San Francisco exhibit opens December 20, 2003
Beginning on December 20, 2003, the Cartoon Art Museum’s ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the work of Derek Kirk Kim. Educated at the Academy of Art, San Francisco, Kim wrote and illustrated small-press and self-published comics throughout the 1990s, and also handled the artistic duties on
Duncan’s Kingdom, written by Gene Yang.
Kim found a massive audience when he began serializing his comics on his website,
www.smallstoriesonline.com. Through sensitive – and often hilarious – slice-of-life short stories, including the graphic novella
Same Difference, Kim rapidly gained a reputation as one of the most gifted cartoonists online. Comics theorist Scott McCloud lists Kim among his “Personal Top Ten” cartoonists on the internet, commenting that his “clean line and wicked sense of humor make him one of the web's most accessible cartoonists and a writer/artist to watch for the future.”
In 2003, Kim received the prestigious Xeric Grant, which allowed him to self-publish
Same Difference and Other Stories, a collection of short stories previously serialized in mini-comics and online.
Publishers Weekly cited
Same Difference as one of the ten best graphic novels of 2003. At this year’s Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, Kim won the Ignatz Award, one of the comics industry's highest honors, for Promising New Talent of 2003. He writes and draws a comic entitled "Half Empty" for the anthology site
www.serializer.net, and continues to serialize his other comics on
www.smallstoriesonline.com before committing them to print.
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.
About the Small Press Spotlight:
San Francisco has been a hotbed of innovative, groundbreaking comic art since the late 1800s with the advent of the modern comic strip. In the 1960s, the Bay Area gained further notoriety when cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, Victor Moscoso and Trina Robbins launched the underground comix movement from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. Today, some of the biggest names in alternative and small-press comics hail from the Bay Area, and The Cartoon Art Museum’s Small Press Spotlight will focus on these talented individuals.
A new artist's work will be on display at the Cartoon Art Museum every 12-15 weeks. Several examples of each cartoonist's work will be showcased in each installment.
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-CAR-TOON
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thanks to Jeff Mason ]
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