House of the Black Spot will be the last Double+ Adventure under the Koyama Press banner and boy is it a doozy! Mystery, intrigue, ghosts, real estate! Do not miss this one, and believe us, the adventure will continue!
The A.V. Club have selected their most anticipated comics of 2019 and Emily Carroll’s flesh-and-bone-chilling When I Arrived at the Castle makes the list!
“Emily Carroll is one of the modern masters of comic-book horror, telling scary stories that are as gorgeous as they are haunting.” — Oliver Sava, The A.V. Club
Check out all of the anticipated titles here!
It’s almost lunch time so here is a sneak peak at Chris Kuzma’s absolutely nuts in all the right ways Lunch Quest!
Broken Frontier reviews Chlorine Gardens by Keiler Roberts, “one of the finest slice-of-life practitioners in comics”!
“Roberts’ clear, uncomplicated visuals always have an expressive clarity and the most telling of visual characterization, and Chlorine Gardens is another collection of incisive short strips from one of the finest autobio practitioners working in the medium.” — Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
Check out the full review here!
PopMatters reviews Nathan Gelgud’s perception bending A House in the Jungle.
“Gelgud’s most intriguing oddities occur at a deeper meta-level. A House in the Jungle isn’t just a story—it’s a comics story exploring the comics form that contains it.” — Chris Gavaler, PopMatters
Read the whole review here!
The Heavy Feather Review reviews Mickey Zacchilli’s teenage space opera Space Academy 123.
“Space Academy 123 is an abundant story full of likeable characters, simple-but-expressive imagery, and unique storytelling.” — Trey Brown, Heavy Feather Review
Read the whole review here!
The writer and critic Davey Davis writes about books they read while recovering from top surgery and they include Michael DeForge’s Dressing.
“As they transform and lose their language and memories of earth, Deforge’s illustrations squiggle and ooze and run. We feel a calm in the face of inevitability, but that doesn’t make the change any less disorienting or sad.” — Davey Davis, Lit Hub
Read the whole article here.
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!