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The second annual Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) is June 15 and 16 at the Center on Halsted and Koyama Press is looking forward to being there selling comics in the windy city!
Special Guest Michael DeForge will be launching the latest issue of his one-person anthology series Lose #5 (9780987963062 | June 2013 | $8.00 | Trade Paper) at the show. Lose #5 is another tour de force from the fecund and freaky mind of DeForge, which features three self-contained stories: “Living Outdoors” tracks two high school students as they explore a zoo and experiment with hallucinogens. “Muskoka” is the story of a cowboy on the road home to see his family. “Recent Hires” follows a young author’s descent into the criminal underworld in order to win the affections of a girl.
Koyama Press will also be joined by Julie Delporte and Victor Kerlow, who both recently launched titles at TCAF. Delporte’s beautiful and moving Journal (9780987963093 | May 2013 | $20.00 | Trade Paper) has been described by BK Munn at Sequential as “a pleasant diaristic combination of comics, elementary school student workbook and impressionist painting. Super inviting and superbly engaging.” Kerlow’sabsurdist album Everything Takes Forever (9780987963086 | May 2013 | $10.00 | Trade Paper) inspired The Comics Journal’s Tucker Stone to exclaim “Everything Takes Forever? Pshaw. More like ‘Victor … Kerlow Forever!’”
The cartoonist collective Wowee Zonk consisting of Chris Kuzma, Patrick Kyle and Ginette Lapalme will also be at CAKE this year and tabling right next to Koyama Press! Be sure to drop by table 66 on June 16 and say hello!
CAKE poster designed by Jo Dery (http://jodery.com).
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i won an award at mocca for sunday in the park with boys and they let me exhibit some work at the society of illustrators and i wore a lot of donuts and spoons and i ate all the strawbies before anybody else
Congratulations Jane Mai - A MoCCA award AND a show at the Society of Ilustrators!
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Nathan Bulmer’s hilarious Eat More Bikes is highlighted by BuzzFeed as one of the webcomics you need to read! So what are you waiting for, read it!
Check out the whole list here!
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I’m almost done with Cyber Surfer #2. I think you’re going to like it.
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Last Thursday night saw the Brooklyn debut of Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever (9780987963086 | May 2013 | $10.00 | Trade Paper) at Desert Island. A packed house came out to have their books signed and be regaled with tales of Taco Head and a heartbroken, clingy monster ex-boyfriend.
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Author and academic Charles Hatfield (Alternative Comics, and Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby University Press of Mississippi, 2005 and 2012) has reviewed By This Shall You Know Him by Jesse Jacobs (9780986873980 | May 2012 | $15.00 | Trade Paper).
“An art comics creation myth, cosmic, disturbing, and beautifully rendered in ice-blue and contrasting purples, with a style that welds the lovely to the grotesque…By This Shall You Know Him is (further) proof that fantasy in comics need not be hollow, generic, or ingratiating. It can be troubling instead. An inspired comic!” — Charles Hatfield
Read the whole review here!
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Very Casual (9780987963079 | May 2013 | $15.00 | Trade Paper) and Lose #5 (9780987963062 | June 2013 | $8.00 | Trade Paper) by Michael DeForge are reviewed by Tucker Stone at The Comics Journal.
“His [DeForge’s] newest releases–a collection of convention minis and other short run one-offs called Very Casual, and the fifth issue of whatever-he feels-like Lose series–is exactly what one arrogantly screeches all cartoonists should be doing all the time: great, unique comics that only that individual could make that are a little better than their previous work, hearty and head-rushing experiences that plainly demand attention and then reward it easily.” — Tucker Stone,The Comics Journal, May 17, 2013
Read the rest of the review here!
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Everything Takes Forever by Victor Kerlow (9780987963086 | May 2013 | $10.00 | Trade Paper) is reviewed by the arts and culture blog Drawn Words.
“Everything Takes Forever is a great display of balance between absurdity and humor without going too far… Koyama has published another solid release — we could definitely use more comics like these.” — Kevin Cortez, Drawn Words, May 16, 2013
Read the whole review here!
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I re-opened the Situology shop. Now Sleepy Details is available for you to own, as well as our old standbys.
I’m finishing up a new, longer book right now and could really use the $$, and maybe you could use the comics. For reading, or giving? Thanks.
I like Sophie’s work a lot and look forward to her upcoming book with Uncivilized Books.
(via uncivilizr)
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Patrick Kyle co-editor and contributor to Wowee Zonk 4 (9780986873997 | May 2012 | $15.00 | Trade Paper) has been interviewed as a part of Open Book Toronto’s Whazamo! Series, which is a month-long celebration of comics and graphic novels and the people who make them.
Read the whole interview here!
