{"id":12373,"date":"2020-06-24T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=12373"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:00:35","slug":"kim-chris-w","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/kim-chris-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris W. Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chris W. Kim is an illustrator and comics artist from Toronto. He is a graduate of the OCAD University in Toronto. His comics art has appeared in many issues of the e-first comics magazine Sequential<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Graphic novel)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Adherent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

N.S.: Conundrum Press, 2023.
forthcoming May 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The residents of an isolated village in a dreamlike world scavenge for supplies in the surrounding forest, collecting scattered items left over from a time long past. No one strays far from this community, fearing what may lie beyond it. When they find a stack of notebooks by an unknown author, a young villager becomes obsessed with their contents. She sets out on a quest to find the writer. As she ventures into the unknown, she discovers a world both barren and increasingly complex. The closer she gets to her goal, the more she realizes that the encounter she\u2019s been seeking probably won\u2019t be what she wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Adherent<\/em>, Chris W. Kim (Herman by Trade, Strays<\/em>) brings us a fabular tale that examines the ways we connect\u2014and the ideas and places we value\u2014in our own increasingly disconnected world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Graphic novel)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Closing Act<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

N.S.: Conundrum Press, 2026.
forthcoming March 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lea walks her usual route through the city when a young man steals her bag. She chases him into an alley but quickly loses her bearings\u2014each alley leads into yet another alley, the sounds of the city fade away, and the thief is nowhere to be seen. Hopelessly searching for an exit, she eventually encounters Dee, one of the alleyfolk who obsessively makes maps of his surroundings and is convinced that the alleys have been gradually narrowing over time. The more of these alleyfolk Lea gets to know, the more she sees that they agree: the labyrinth they inhabit is shifting, creating a state of deep uncertainty. When the presence of the thief becomes a subject of contention, Lea finds herself entangled in the affairs of a world fated to end soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Graphic novel)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Herman By Trade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

London: SelfMadeHero, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herman is an introverted and unambitious street cleaner, his life as predictable as it is dull. Or so it seems to those he works with on the city’s waterfront. In fact, Herman is creative, curious and complex. What’s more, he has a remarkable hidden talent: the ability to transform his appearance at will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An open casting call sees the city swept up into a frenzy of creative ambition. As a queue forms along the waterfront, Herman is emboldened to perform. But his decision to enter the audition room brings his creative and professional lives into conflict, and the consequences are irreversible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beautifully drawn, Herman by Trade<\/em> is a captivating graphic novel about art, identity and making room for self-expression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Graphic novel)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Strays<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

London: SelfMadeHero, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A young man fleeing a disaster comes to live in the city with his sister, making ends meet by taking a job as a delivery man\u2026 only to encounter a flood of old friends and acquaintances on his daily route. At first elated by the company of these waifs and strays, he finds that their desperation for work begins to trouble his conscience \u2013 but what happens when you can\u2019t help everyone? In his distinctively detailed graphic style, Chris W. Kim presents an elusively disquieting parable of modern isolation, and of the ties that bind \u2013 or fail to bind \u2013 society together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chris W. Kim personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Conundrum Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher SelfMadeHero<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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