Tag: Koyama Press
LA Times Book Prize Nominees include three from Koyama and March Book Three
A challenging slate of indie comics and the unstoppable March Book Three were nominated for the LA TImes Book Prize.
Reviews: Martz, Toms, Booger portray different kinds of love
Burt’s Way Home by John Martz
This incredibly sweet story is aimed at kids, but its emotional depth will satisfy many adults. Burt lives with Lydia in a nondescript apartment at the bottom of a...
Review: The inevitable woe of ‘Birthmark’
Walking a thin line between depressing and uplifting — a line I hadn’t really thought about existing before — Nathan Jurevicius’ Birthmark brings a familiar tale of vengeance into a completely alien world.
Our unnamed walking...
Review: ‘Cat Rackham’ as an antidote to darkness
One of the best moves I've made recently was the decision to look through the interview with creator Steve Wolfhard in the back of the book before actually reading The Collected Cat Rackham. My glance at...
Review: Jessica Campbell is so judgmental
I’ve been a big fan of Jessica Campbell’s work since I read her Oily Comics debut My Sincerest Apologies, and what her output lacks in girth it more than makes up for in originality....
Review: Seitchik’s ‘Exits’ offers invisibility as the beginning of transformation
In Exits, Daryl Seitchik takes a fairly obvious, well-worn bit of symbolism and manages to make the readers’ familiarity with it into one of the work’s strengths. After a traumatic day Claire turns invisible,...
Review: Aidan Koch and Paloma Dawkins look inward and far out
After Nothing Comes by Aidan Koch
This collection from Koyama Press of Koch’s early mini comics speaks to what makes Koch stand out. With an art style that might even be called slight, often featuring...
Review: Ben Sears mixes ghosts and science fiction for fun
Ben Sears’ Night Air is built around characters that have apparently appeared in zines and anthologies, but I confess to being totally unfamiliar with them. It’s a spirited book aimed at kids and features...
Review: Patrick Kyle invites you to force your way into his work
Sometimes it’s better to just give yourself to something rather than to seek out its meaning. Not everything has to have one clear meaning, and in some cases, to bring concrete meaning to a...
Review: The darker beauty of Cathy G. Johnson’s ‘Gorgeous’
This short, spare, poetic, emotionally brutal piece from Cathy G. Johnson and Koyama Press captures the intersection of three lives, and the unlikely self realization that two of them enact on one. The story...
Rokudenashiko events in New York
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"Good for nothing" manko artist Rokudenashiko was the hit of TCAF and she's in New York for a series of events. Tonights talk is sold out (DAMN IT ALL) but she's also appearing at...
Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less stressed in the headlines was that the court also found...
