Ask Me About Polyamory
The Best of Kimchi Cuddles
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A hilarious and touching comic about polyamory, queer, and genderqueer issues. If your relationships or your gender are unconventional, you'll find useful advice and plenty of laughs in this compilation of the wildly popular webcomic Kimchi Cuddles. Quirky, endearing and charmingly (and sometimes painfully) realistic characters, many based on real people, explore polyamory, queer and genderqueer issues. Covering practical matters like time management and serious topics like discrimination, this book unites the best of two years of Kimchi Cuddles comics, organized into a practical and entertaining guide to the real world of alternative relationships. Kimchi Cuddles is a rare mix: fearlessly true to the lives of the people it depicts yet relatable enough to entertain and inform anyone (maybe even your parents). Dealing with both lighthearted and serious subject matter, it avoids clichÉs and easy answers, choosing instead to give examples of different schools of thought and show the humanity behind each one. Wolf's honesty and gift for clear explanation have made Kimchi Cuddles a hit with the most dedicated polyamorists as well as curious newcomers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This debut collection of the Kimchi Cuddles webcomic begins with a flowchart to show the relationships between its various characters, but this is hardly necessary as the comic itself rarely delves into any narrative that could be called a story. Mostly, the book is a series of short strips explaining polyamory and the joys and stresses it brings to those who practice it. Wolf's bright, simple art is lively, but it exists largely in service to the dialogue, which is often explanatory rather than conversational. At times, the character speaking becomes a tiny figure in a panel mostly obscured by the word balloons, leading the reader to wonder whether the subject would perhaps be better served by plain or illustrated prose. Conversations about what love means in polyamory, perhaps eye-opening and sweet at the beginning, become dulled with repetition. A book that focused more on storytelling in the vein of Dykes to Watch Out For could have provided a better window into polyamorous life.
