





September 29, 2014



Koyama Press Makes Official Its Spring 2015 Schedule







This morning the beloved boutique publisher



It looks like a strong seasons to me. They'd previously announced the Degen book Wowee Zonk anthologies; Blobby Boys book.



It's interesting to see Koyama kind of develop a roster of cartoonists with whom they can continue a relationship of a long period of time. I think that makes for a stronger presence in the market, and it makes for healthier cartoonists even if they want to take certain kinds of projects elsewhere. The line-up is:



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* Mighty Star And The Castle of The Cancatervater, A. Degen, 9781927668160, $15, 172 pages, $15, April 2015.



Koyama Press Description: Sci-fi superheroes eschew Gotham and Metropolis in favor of nightmarish neoclassical ruins in this surreal strip.



A. Degen has taken the superhero myth and put it in a baroque blender; the result is the cerebral, sensuous and uncanny Mighty Star and the Castle of the Cancatervater. Equal parts Dali and Astro Boy, Degen's mostly silent narrative is both metaphysical and mighty.



A. Degen was born in Brooklyn, New York. After a time in Tokyo, he now lives and works Connecticut. He is the author of the books Area CC (Snakebomb, 2011) and Soft X-Ray/Mindhunters (Astroplus/Futureshock, 2013), and his work has appeared in a number of anthologies.



"A. Degen is one of the smartest and funniest cartoonists in the game. Every page in the book is filled with about two dozen triumphs and upsets in humor, design, pacing... A real pleasure to pore over." -- Michael DeForge, author of A Body Beneath (Koyama Press, 2014), Ant Colony (Drawn and Quarterly, 2013), and many more. *****







* Blobby Boys 2, Alex Schubert, 9781927668207, 52 pages, $10, May 2015.



Koyama Press Description: Imagine the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as pot-smoking punks.



The Blobby Boys are back and they've got acid tongues and acid on their tongues. The salacious and slimy Saturday Morning cast-offs haven't lost an iota of edge. In fact, the only thing sharper than the comedy in this book just might be the boys' switchblades.



ALEX SCHUBERT was born in Mascoutah, IL and is based In Los Angeles, CA where he works in illustration and animation. In 2014, the first collection of Blobby Boys was awarded a Silver Medal in the Long Form and Comic Strip category of The Society of Illustrators first Comic and Cartoon Art Annual.



"Alex Schubert's collection of bold, bizarre comics is short, sharp and shocking -- not unlike a quick stabbing." -- Jake Austen, Chicago Tribune *****







* Confetti, Ginette LaPalme, 9781927668153, 200 pages, $20, May 2015.



Koyama Press Description: A colorful celebration of cartoons, creativity and the culture of cute.



Confetti, like its namesake, is a fun and explosive mix of color from the fertile mind of multidisciplinary artist Ginette Lapalme. In comics, paintings, prints, sculpture, and jewelry, Lapalme uses cartoons and junk culture as raw material to make "cute" subversive and "pretty' punk.



Ginette LaPalme is a Toronto-based illustrator and artist. Lapalme is a graduate of the storied OCADU Illustration program, and is one third of Wowee Zonk, a Toronto-based illustrator collective and contemporary comic book anthology.



"It is a goal of mine to live alone in a big house surrounded by the work of Ginette Lapalme, kind of like a cat lady, but with drawings of cats instead of real cats... Utterly delightful but never too cute, the world Lapalme has created leaves me more attuned to the perverse beauty of the one around us." -- Tavi Gevinson, founder and editor of Rookie *****







* Diary Comics, Dustin Harbin, 9781927668177, 236 pages, $15, May 2015.



Koyama Press Description: Comic and tragicomic, heartfelt and heartbreaking; these are the panels that make up a life.



Since 2010, Dustin Harbin has been sporadically documenting the ups and downs and sideways of his life in comic form. From their humble beginnings as a sketchbook exercise documenting the quotidian, oftentimes with hilarious results, Harbin's Diary Comics have grown into quirky existential examinations of life and living.



Dustin Harbin is a cartoonist and illustrator who lives and works in North Carolina. He's best known for his autobiographical comics, as well as many, many illustrations of people and animals, often mixed and matched.



"Dustin's willingness to push himself in these comics makes them special, opening his mind and life to the audience he's meant to connect to, taking what is at times the character of himself and revealing the man. That's always the best part of autobio comics, an ability to confront something true." â€” Kate Beaton, author of Hark! A Vagrant *****



Sounds like an excellent build on this year's very good pair of seasons and a particularly rich TCAF are in store for Koyama next year.



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This morning the beloved boutique publisher Koyama Press made available to some of the comics news web sites its Spring 2015 schedule . I'll run covers below this opening barrage of graphs along with their descriptions book to book, artist to artist.It looks like a strong seasons to me. They'd previously announced the Degen book here , but the other three have at least escape my attention. They're all from artists with whom the publisher has worked before: Ginette LaPalme , with whom they did one of theanthologies; Dustin Harbin , with whom they've done previous iterations of the diary work; and Alex Schubert , with whom they did the firstbook.It's interesting to see Koyama kind of develop a roster of cartoonists with whom they can continue a relationship of a long period of time. I think that makes for a stronger presence in the market, and it makes for healthier cartoonists even if they want to take certain kinds of projects elsewhere. The line-up is:*****, A. Degen, 9781927668160, $15, 172 pages, $15, April 2015.Koyama Press Description:*****, Alex Schubert, 9781927668207, 52 pages, $10, May 2015.Koyama Press Description:*****, Ginette LaPalme, 9781927668153, 200 pages, $20, May 2015.Koyama Press Description:*****, Dustin Harbin, 9781927668177, 236 pages, $15, May 2015.Koyama Press Description:*****Sounds like an excellent build on this year's very good pair of seasons and a particularly rich TCAF are in store for Koyama next year.**********