[2] For his character, Andy Go, an art-school dropout who finds himself trapped in a world that outlawed creativity,[2] Kim began branching out by 2012.

In the live-action YouTube series Mythomania, an impetus for which was the casting–whitewashing controversy in 2010's The Last Airbender, Kim found he enjoyed filmmaking more than drawing.

[3] In 2005, NPR's Jacki Lyden noted that, like Kim, both main characters in Same Difference are Korean-American, though she felt they did not exhibit any explicitly-Korean attributes; Kim told her that he avoided obvious or stereotypical signifiers of their Asianness, instead grafting similar scenes as he and his Korean-American friends had while growing up.

"[7] In November 2001, Kim was highlighted and praised in The Comics Journal for his serials Same Difference and Half Empty—then hosted on GeoCities.

[14] In September 2004, Shaenon K. Garrity reviewed his body of work for The Webcomics Examiner, and heaped praise on the artist, explicitly calling out his "technical precision and emotional expressiveness.