On Everything Takes Forever:

“This collection of comics and drawings by this New Yorker and New York Times illustrator is a showcase of talent – featuring varying styles and subject matter, and including, of course, Taco Head.” — Benn Ray, Largehearted Boy

On Very Casual and Lose #5:

“First, there’s a new issue of one of the hottest underground comics going on right now, Lose. It’s a collection of trippy, weird and entertaining short stories – it’s sort of like Adventure Time for grown-ups. Then, Very Causal collects a number of Deforge’s non-Lose stories – his contributions to websites, anthologies and mini-comics. Also weirdly excellent.” — Benn Ray, Largehearted Boy

Check out the rest of his picks here!

Jane Mai’s Sunday in the Park with Boys (9780987963055 | November 2012 | $10.00 | Trade Paper) is reviewed on British news and entertainment blog Reverse Direction.

“A expectation-defying meditation that turns a gloomy, self-pitying confessional into … well, a gloomy, self-pitying confessional, but one that presents depression as a failure of self that can be turned around…It’s both darkly evocative and strangely cute, and it’s on this that the book’s success balances, and does so admirably.” — John Seven, Reverse Direction

Read the whole review here!

This weekend Koyama Press will be in Chicago at CAKE, but we will also be represented closer to home at the Small Press Art Fair, which is part of NXNE! Come out to Ryerson Campus (Gould Street, across from Balzac Coffee; full map here) this Saturday, June 15 from 11AM—4PM. The event is totally free and features a number of awesome publishers, printers and zinesters, so come by and say hi!

Check out the Facebook page here!

Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever (9780987963086 | May 2013 | $10.00 | Trade Paper) is reviewed by Broken Frontier. A British news site that has been covering comics and graphic novels since 2002.

“Characters with tacos for heads compete with the ultimate embodiment of mini-me for the title of oddest Kerlow creation in 60-odd pages of some of the most gloriously freaky comics it’s been my pleasure to be subjected to this year…An unmissable, eccentric oddity just perfect to enjoy with a pint or three of your favourite tipple…” — Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier Managing Editor and contributor to Paul Gravett’s 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die

Read the rest of the review here!

Prepare to be slimed! Alex Schubert’s bodacious and burnt-out Blobby Boys are coming this Fall, and to whet your appetite for misbehaving blobs of slime Schubert has created an exclusive book trailer! But that’s not all! He has a whole a series of videos featuring his cadre of crass creations. Check them all out here!

Blobby Boys will be in stores in September and is available for pre-order now. To find out how you can get your copy of Blobby Boys head over to the Koyama Press website here!

Blobby Boys by Alex Schubert
ISBN: 978-1-927668-02-3
$10.00
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 52 pages, full colour, softcover
September 2013

Koyama Press Publisher Annie Koyama has been named as the judge for The Foxing Quarterly Fall Prize in Comics. The $200 prize is given out bi-annually in Spring and Fall by the literary magazine that is dedicated to providing a print-only creative space for writers and artists. Along with the cash prize and publication in the magazine, winners also receive 25 copies of the Fall issue.

To find out more about the comics prize, as well as the prizes being offered in poetry and fiction, head over to the magazine’s website here!

Poster designed by the most excellent Joseph Lambert.

Koyama Press will be well represented at this year’s HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC in the Indie Island section of the massive show. Come by table AA-1005 (right next to Dustin Harbin!) and say hi!

HeroesCon 2013
7–9 June 2013 | 7 June: 11AM–7PM, 8 June: 10AM–6PM, and 9 June: 11AM–6PM  at the Charlotte Convention Center
Visit the HeroesCon 2013 website for further details

Awesome Indie Island Poster by Dustin Harbin!

Cameron Hatheway continues his look at all of the Eisner Awards nominees for the popular comics and pop culture website Bleeding Cool. This includes The Infinite Wait and Other Stories by Julia Wertz (9780987963024 | September 2012 | $15.00 | Trade Paper), which is nominated in the Best Reality-Based Work category.

“Wertz’s sassy sense of humor was an absolute riot to read, for even during the more serious situations she still remained her usual self. Highly relatable if you’re just entering into your 20’s, enjoy your booze, or if you’ve ever had to work in the food industry, for it sucks. A lot.” — Cameron Hatheway, Bleeding Cool

Check out the whole list here!

Victor Kerlow author of Everything Takes Forever (9780987963086 | May 2013 | $10.00 | Trade Paper) sits down for a lively interview with fellow artists Josh Burggraf and Jess Worby at The Rumpus. Over burgers, beers and jam comics they discuss the compulsion to draw, the role writing plays in cartooning, art and memory, and more.

Read the whole interview here!