Koyama Press Announces Fall 2018 Lineup with Deforge, Zacchilli, Martz & more
SPX will celebrate Koyama Press’s 10th Anniversary
There’s no more loved or admired person in comics than Annie Koyama, the owner and publisher of Koyama Press. And this year’s Small Press Expo will celebrate Koyama Press’s 10th anniversay with comics, programming and “surprises.” For a decade Koyama has been giving the world great cartoonists, great books and acting in an ethical, open way […]
Koyama Press’s Fall line-up includes Willumsen, Kyle, Lee, Freibert, GG and Foster-Dimino
Catching up a bit here on the news, and Koyama Press announced their fall line-up filled with work by some of today’s most exciting cartoonists including Connor Willumsen, Patrick Kyle, Hannah K. Lee, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Noel Freibert and GG. I’m excited for all these books, as Koyama’s output is never less than stellar, but I can’t help […]
ThreeCAF Part 1: Three comics from TCAF 2017
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It’s mission is to “promote the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics”. In the spirit of this mission, the Comics Beat is conducting a […]
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.
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 work might mean imposing clarity on something that was not meant to have any. That imposition might actually come off as […]
Koyama Press Announces Spring list with Kyle, Koch, Sears, Johnson and the vagina kayak artist
And yet more awesome comics are on the way from Koyama Press, with a particularly fresh line-up of indie comics up and comers. Patrick Kyle is known for his oddball fantasies while Aidan Koch has already gotten attention for her evocative experimental comics. Cathy G. Johnson is a fast rising star with a book coming out from First Second next year and an Ignatz under her belt; while Ben Sears name came up constantly when I asked about emerging male cartoonists. In addition, Koyama Press will put out its first translated comics: What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and her Pussy, the story of Japanese artist Rokudenashiko (“good-for-nothing girl” or “bad girl”) whose work achives being truly transgressive; the Massive duo of Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins bring this one to English. PLease note, this comic is not about cats.
And here’s the complete lineup:
The lot of the indie cartoonist as viewed through the 2014 Small Press Expo
Even though it’s two weeks in the rearview mirror, a lot of worthy writing has been done about this year’s Small Press Expo. I’m sure devotees have read all the following, but given all the talk about what sells at conventions and the evolving comics market, this was an important show to think about. § […]
Hanselmann, Deforge and Kyle on tour
Simon Hanselmann, Patrick Kyle and Michael DeForge are going on tour together, an event that will doubtless span a thousand autobio comics. DeForge is the best known of the group, acclaimed for Lose, Ant Comix and many more of his abstractly horrifying enquiries into social systems human and animal. Hanselmann’s Megahex presents a sit-com for […]
You Can Never Be Me: Bat-tales from Patrick Kyle
You Can Never Be Me by Patrick Kyle There’s a meme (as I believe they’re called) that I see cropping up fairly regularly in my forays of Internet yonder. Here, allow me to show you: Batman is a seductive fellow, isn’t he? Fetishes aside, one of the main appeals of the character is that, theoretically, anybody […]