
Review: Everywhere Disappeared
By Dustin Cabeal
As much as you enjoy a publishers body of work, there are always going to be a few that you simply dislike. You can likely tell where this review is going, which is more than I had going into Everywhere Disappeared.

Review: Anti-Gone
By Dustin Cabeal
Anti-Gone is a strange ass book. I both recommend it but acknowledge that there are some problems with it. The first is that it intentionally never tells you the landscape of the world, but never quite lays out the entire world for you via the art or dialogue either. Usually, I’m not bothered by this, but the story obsess about other smaller details which makes it strange that it never gives you the big one.

Review: Sex Fantasy
By Dustin Cabeal
Here is something you don’t particularly want to say with a title like Sex Fantasy, it wasn’t what I thought it would be. Now, that makes me sound like a pervert, and I guess I’ll just wear that for a moment as I explain that I didn’t think this would be about sex at all. It sometimes wasn’t, but other times it was.

Review: Language Barrier
By Oliver Gerlach
Hannah K. Lee’s Language Barrier is a collection that self-identifies as “zines, comics, and other fragments” on the cover. That’s an important piece of categorisation, as is the Koyama Press website’s description of it as “[an] art book”. This isn’t really a comic, and shouldn’t be treated like one. It’s a giant zine or a surreal art project or something like that. Yes, there are comics in it, but I wouldn’t call it a comic in itself. Whatever it is, though, it’s profoundly weird and unsettling, and doesn’t sit comfortably in any major category.

Review: I’m Not Here
By Dustin Cabeal
To be honest and upfront, I’m not sure I understood this comic book. That’s not something that’s fun to write because any reviewer hopes that they “got” the material so that they can review it properly. The thing with I’m Not Here is that it’s very abstract. It relies on the reader to make their own guesses and assumptions.

Review: Sunburning
By Dustin Cabeal
Personally, I find autobiographical comics, even the ones that are just loosely based, to be one of the bravest comics to create. The fully autobiographical stories obviously get a lot more credits for bravery.

Koyama Press: Connor Willumsen, Patrick Kyle and Noel Freibert on Tour
Press Release
Connor Willumsen, Patrick Kyle and Noel Freibert are going on a six-city tour. All three artists are set to release brand new books with us that are the avant-garde of the alternative comics scene and they are taking them on the road in September!

Koyama Press Announces Fall 2017
Press Release
Our Fall season has five artists that are making their debut with us and one who has been with us since very near the beginning. It is emblematic of our press and a wonderful way to round out our 10th anniversary.

Review: You & A Bike & A Road
By Sarah Miller
Life is a series of moments in time, strung together by our memories to form a narrative that suits the story we tell ourselves about ourselves. What happens when those moments are captured on the page one by one as they happen, rather than being collected all at once when the perceived narrative arc is already over? In deceptively simple sketches, Eleanor Davis answers this question as she tells the story of her cross-country journey from Tucson, Arizona, to Athens, Georgia. You & A Bike & A Road is a diary comic that lets us into Davis’s mind as she confronts the challenges inherent in such a physically and mentally strenuous undertaking. Her story is told as a series of moments that add up to what seems at first glance like a simple cycling narrative, but which at second glance proves to be a series of existential questions about identity and belonging. “I want to bike fast and draw beautifully,” she says, and so she does, in the process revealing the splendour and inescapability of both our physical and conceptual selves.

Review: Volcano Trash
By Dustin Cabeal
Volcano Trash is one of those alternative worlds in which the future is dystopianish, but also full of joy and fun. It’s a world I would like to visit because it’s a bit carefree, very weird and there are robots that can transform.

Annie Koyama Donates Original Art to Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Press Release
Our publisher and fearless leader, Annie Koyama, is a lover of art and comics and to kick off our 10th anniversary year she is sharing that love by donating a collection of more than 250 pieces of original artwork by contemporary American cartoonists to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Cartoonists represented in this collection include Lisa Hanawalt, Theo Ellsworth, Katie Skelly, Noah Van Sciver, Eleanor Davis, Dustin Harbin, Frank Santoro, Gabrielle Bell, Hellen Jo, Kevin Huizenga, and many more!
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