Ryan C’s Four Color Apocalypse reviews our promotional copy, but more importantly, Mickey Zacchilli’s slice of spacefaring fun, Space Academy 123.

“[I]n terms of sheer hyper-kinetic imagination, heartfelt humor, and good, old-fashioned fun (remember that?), Space Academy 123 is tough to beat.” — Ryan Carey, Four Color Apocalypse

Read the entire review right here!

PopMatters reviews Patrick Kyle’s “graphic fiction meta-garden” Roaming Foliage.

“I’ve literally never read anything like it. Explaining why that’s such a wonderful thing—not just for Kyle but for comics generally—will take some explaining.” — Chris Gavaler, PopMatters

Read the whole review here!

CBC Parents’ Erik Missio has wonderful guide to reading comics to kids that includes the work of John Martz, namely A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories and Evie and the Truth About Witches. Read the whole article here!  

CBC Books have selected the best Canadian comics of 2018 and four Koyama Press titles make the list: Jessica Campbell’s XTC69, Michael DeForge’s Brat, Patrick Kyle’s Roaming Foliage, and Fiona Smyth’s Somnambulance!

Check out the whole list here!

The folks at Comic Books are Burning in Hell are back from the stygian depths to discuss a more celestial pursuit: Mickey Zacchilli’s Space Academy 123! Listen here!

Broken Pencil reviews Michael DeForge’s “utterly masterful” A Western World.

“Deforge’s politic encourages a psychic experimentalism in the reader, asking us to consider not the most immediate topics at hand but rather the meta-narratives and epistemologies we take for granted. It is utterly masterful.” — Jonathan Valelly, Broken Pencil

Check out the rest of the review here!

The Comics Journal reviews Sophia Foster-Dimino’s “intimacy comics” Sex Fantasy.

“Foster-Dimino excels at taking the fantastic and anchoring it to earth with well chosen details and physical stuff. Too much whimsy and nothing connects, but too much reality and nothing delights. With the right mix, though, the emotional stakes of every mode get raised for the reader: the comic, the tragic, the erotic.” — Tom McHenry, The Comics Journal

Read the whole review here!

Day #14 is……a joke that we full on made physical buttons for and gave to one of our favourite comics folks who is no longer in comics but still a fave! 

Hyperallergic have put together a list of the top ten graphic novels of 2018 and Keiler Roberts’ Chlorine Gardens is on it!

“When we read her black-and-white panels, we don’t feel ashamed of our moments of imperfection; instead, we feel seen.” — Megan Liberty, Hyperallergic

Read the whole list here!

Unlucky Day #13 brings us a bit of all ages spookiness in the creepy, but perfect for kids, Evie and the Truth About Witches by John Martz!