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Baby Bjornstrand
by Renee French
Baby Bjornstrand tells the tale of Mickey, Marcel and Cyril
and their misadventures with an undeniably adorable, and
mysteriously menacing monster. A wasteland becomes fertile
ground for fantasy as the book’s graphite grotesqueries are
brought to life by French’s adroit hand; her elegant shading
seemingly wringing her wondrous worlds out of the page itself.
RENEE FRENCH has been making comics that revel in the killer side
of cute and the horrors that lie within and without since the early 90s.
Her past work includes The Ticking (Top Shelf Productions, 2006),
Micrographica (Top Shelf Productions, 2007), H Day (PictureBox,
2010), and Hagelbarger and That Nightmare Goat (Yam Books,
2013).
“Baby Bjornstrand is both beautiful and brutal, warm and indifferent. Like all of Renée French’s art it hints at the innocent and the
profane without missing a beat. A creature after my own heart.”
— Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim
Cover of Renee French’s Baby Bjornstrand
September 2014
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-13-9
$20.00 CDN
6.5 x 8 inches, 132 pages, colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Renee French’s Baby Bjornstrand
Distance Mover
by Patrick Kyle
Mr. Earth can move incredible distances in his improbable Distance
Mover, a wondrous vehicle that reflects the fantastic world it
traverses. He, and his young art-star protégée Mendel, explore
culture-rich crystalline cities, challenge the mighty Council of the
Misters, try to overcome the all-conquering Ooze, and much more!
PATRICK KYLE lives and works in Toronto, Canada. He is the
co-founder and editor of Wowee Zonk, a contemporary comic
book anthology featuring up-and-coming international artists.
He has been previously nominated for Doug Wright and Ignatz
awards for his self-published comic book series Black Mass and
Distance Mover.
“Pure comics, heartbreakingly swift in its speed and span. Distance
Mover is heady and hilarious, high and low, a tightly wound
breakneck-paced science fiction epic, full of calamity and beauty.
Quite literally this book will bend and blend your mind with time
and space. Read it, and move great distances.” — Jordan Crane,
author of Uptight and The Clouds Above
Cover of Patrick Kyle’s Distance Mover
September 2014
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-08-5
$20.00 CDN
6 x 8 inches, 188 pages, two-colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Patrick Kyle’s Distance Mover
Lose #6
by Michael DeForge
Lose #6 is the latest installment in Michael DeForge’s one-person
short story anthology series. Hailed as the next Daniel Clowes or
Chris Ware, DeForge is cartooning’s brightest young star, and Lose
is a standalone showcase for his talents.
MICHAEL DEFORGE currently lives and works in Toronto as a
cartoonist, commercial illustrator, and as a designer for the hit
Cartoon Network program Adventure Time. His one-person
anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial
success, having been nominated for every major comics award
including the Ignatz and Eisner Awards.
“Everything and everyone in his [DeForge’s] drawings is dripping,
bubbling and developing unsightly growths. He warps and dents
the assured, geometrical forms of vintage newspaper strips and
new wave-era graphics into oddly adorable horrors; his stories are
prone to whiplash formal shifts.” — Douglas Wolk, The New York
Times
Cover of Michael DeForge’s Lose #6
September 2014
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-12-2
$8.00 CDN
6.125 x 10 inches, 52 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Michael DeForge’s Lose #6
Wendy
by Walter Scott
Wendy is trendy, and has dreams of art stardom — but our young
urban protagonist is perpetually derailed by the temptations of
punk music, drugs, alcohol, parties, and boys. Hegemonies and
hearts are broken in this droll and iconoclastic look at the worlds of
art and twentysomethings.
WALTER SCOTT is an artist from Montréal. His work has been
exhibited across Canada and Wendy has been serialized on Random
House Canada’s literary digital magazine Hazlitt.
“If you are or were ever a 20-something art school party girl, this
comic will stare directly into your soul. If you aren’t and never have
been, that’s okay too because Wendy’s art show-littered search for
happiness, questionable life choices and totally human tendency
for failure are just a great read anyway.” — Olivia Whittick, VICE
Magazine
Cover of Walter Scott’s Wendy
November 2014
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-09-2
$18.00 CDN
6.5 x 9 inches, 216 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Walter Scott’s Wendy
A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories
by John Martz
In Tim’s world, a cat can paint on the ceiling and a happy pig
couple can wait months for the bus. A duck and a mouse love
to go flying, in a plane, of course. Every page is an adventure
and each character is colorful in this collection of comics.
JOHN MARTZ is a cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Toronto,
Canada. He is the creator of the wordless online comic strip Machine
Gum, and the illustrator of several picture books including Abbott
& Costello’s Who’s On First? (Quirk Books, 2013). His comics and
illustrations have appeared in The Globe & Mail, MAD Magazine,
Maisonneuve, and more. He won the 2013 Ignatz Award for
Outstanding Story for his comic book Gold Star (Retrofit Comics,
2012).
PRAISE FOR WHO’S ON FIRST?
“Martz’s expressive characters cavort on backgrounds that pop
with appealing color. Clever page formatting conveys the pacing
that is such an integral part of the laughs.” — School Library
Journal
Cover of John Martz’s A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories
September 2014
Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 978-1-927668-10-8
$19.95 CDN
6.5 x 10 inches, 52 pages, colour interior, colour hardcover
Excerpt from John Martz’s A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories
Cat Dad, King of the Goblins
by Britt Wilson
Miri and Luey have a dilemma. Their dad’s been turned into
a cat and their closet is a garden full of goblins. There is only
one thing for them to do — grab their friend Phil the frog
and dive head first into a wild, woolly and wacky adventure.
BRITT WILSON grew up in Brampton, Ontario. She attended both
OCAD and Sheridan College, eventually graduating from Sheridan
with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Illustration. Wilson published
her first book Britt Wilson’s Greatest Book on Earth, a collection of
her mini-comics, with Conundrum Press in 2012. She now lives in
Toronto, Ontario with her husband and white cat.
”I’ve admired Britt’s utter mastery of drawing skill for the longest
time, and it looks like that is not going to end anytime soon. I am ok
with this.” — Kate Beaton, author of Hark! A Vagrant
Cover of Britt Wilson’s Cat Dad, King of the Goblins
September 2014
Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 978-1-927668-11-5
$12.00 CDN
6.5 x 9 inches, 48 pages, colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Britt Wilson’s Cat Dad, King of the Goblins
Cat Person
by Seo Kim
Cat Person is a collection of comics by cartoonist Seo Kim. Begun
as a personal challenge to create daily, the comics feature a variety
of themes from the silly to the serious. Characterized by a charming
drawing style and frequently featuring the cartoonist and her farcical
feline Jimmy, these are the best Sunday comics you’ve never seen.
SEO KIM was born in Seoul, Korea, and then immigrated to Toronto,
Ontario just a few months later. Kim currently lives in Los Angeles
and works as a storyboard artist for the massively successful Cartoon Network show, Adventure Time.
PRAISE FOR SEO KIM
“Yes! An illustrator who’s not afraid to draw genuinely hilarious
creatures larking around and being silly.” — Liv Siddall, It’s Nice That
Cover of Seo Kim’s Cat Person
May 2014
Comics & Graphic Novels/Humour
ISBN: 978-1-927668-05-4
$20.00 CDN
7 x 9 inches, 144 pages, colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Seo Kim’s Cat Person
A Body Beneath
by Michael DeForge
A Body Beneath collects issues 2-5 of Michael DeForge’s multiaward winning, anthology Lose. DeForge’s singular vision reveals
the menace in the mundane, the humor in the horrific. He has crafted a phantasmagoria of stories that feature a spider-infested pet
horse head, post-apocalyptic dogs dealing with existential angst,
the romantic undertones of a hired hit, and more.
PRAISE FOR MICHAEL DEFORGE
“If you aren’t reading Michael DeForge, I don’t know what you’re
doing with your life.” — Timothy Callahan, Comic Book Resources
Cover of Michael DeForge’s A Body Beneath
May 2014
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-07-8
$15.00 CDN
7 x 10 inches, 152 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Michael DeForge’s A Body Beneath
Safari Honeymoon
by Jesse Jacobs
Join a pair of young newlyweds as they descend deep into a mysterious forest, encountering unknown creatures and unimaginable
landscapes. Amongst the unusual flora and fauna, they discover
within themselves something more strange and terrible than any
sight their safari has to offer. Safari Honeymoon is a tale of jungle
love and jungle madness.
JESSE JACOBS was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, and now
draws comics and things from his home in London, Ontario. He has
worked on the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time, and has appeared in the 2012 and 2013 editions of Best American Comics.
PRAISE FOR BY THIS SHALL YOU KNOW HIM
“I went in expecting a psychedelic vision quest, and I came out having experienced a stunning new creation myth. Intricate, upsetting,
and fun.” — Jeremy Tinder, Boing Boing
Cover of Jesse Jacobs’s Safari Honeymoon
May 2014
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-04-7
$15.00 CDN
7 x 10 inches, 80 pages, three-colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Jesse Jacobs’s Safari Honeymoon
100 Crushes
by Elisha Lim
100 Crushes compiles five years of queer comics by Elisha Lim, including excerpts from Sissy, The Illustrated Gentleman, Queer Child
in the Eighties, and their cult series 100 Butches, as well as new
work. It’s an absorbing documentary that travels through Toronto,
Berlin, Singapore, and beyond in the form of interviews, memoirs,
and gossip from an international queer vanguard.
ELISHA LIM is a Toronto-based artist whose work celebrates the
dignity and power of being neither straight, nor white, nor cisgendered. In 2011 they also successfully advocated for Canadian
gay media to adopt the gender neutral pronoun “they.”
PRAISE FOR 100 Butches
“She [Lim] really sees these women, she really loves them, and
she’s transmitting them to us with a fluency and an immediacy that
breaks my heart.” — Alison Bechdel, (Fun Home, 2007)
Cover of Elisha Lim’s 100 Crushes
June 2014
Comics & Graphic Novels/Gay & Lesbian
ISBN: 978-1-927668-06-1
$18.00 CDN
6.5 x 9 inches, 100 pages, colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Elisha Lim’s 100 Crushes
Blobby Boys
by Alex Schubert
Blobby Boys is not a rip off. It is a hilarious and slime-filled comic
about pot smoking blobby band mates who are equal parts Ninja
Turtles and punks. Their exploits dealing, robbing and jamming are
rounded out by the misadventures of Aging Hipster and Punk Dad.
ALEX SCHUBERT was born in Mascoutah, IL and is based in Kansas
City where he graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in
2006. His tumblr-based blog Zine Police features excerpts from his
sketchbooks and zines including The Dudes and Blobby Boys, which
MTV praised as “one of the funniest dumbest bestest webcomics
we’ve come across in a minute.”
“Alex Schubert’s collection of bold, bizarre comics is short, sharp
and shocking — not unlike a quick stabbing.” — Jake Austen,
Chicago Tribune
Cover of Alex Schubert’s Blobby Boys
September 2013
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-02-3
$10.00 CDN
5.5 x 8.5 inches, 52 pages, colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Alex Schubert’s Blobby Boys
Fata Morgana
by Jon Vermilyea
Fata Morgana follows the adventure of a young boy through
the landscapes of his imagination. He encounters and befriends
creatures that are, like all mirages, born out of aspects of his own
unconscious. Presented in vibrantly coloured two-page panoramas,
Fata Morgana is a feast for the eyes and mind.
JON VERMILYEA is a multitalented Los Angeles-based illustrator,
cartoonist, animator, and printmaker. His vibrant, candy-coloured
illustrations and unique designs of the monstrous and mythical
have left their mark on a wide range of clients including: hit
programs for the Cartoon Network such as Adventure Time and
Problem Solverz, the acclaimed alternative band Animal Collective,
the design orientated wallet company Poketo, the streetwear label
MISHKA, and many more. He has published several comics and
prints with Koyama Press, and his work has also appeared in MOME
(Fantagraphics), The Ganzfeld (PictureBox), Strange Tales (Marvel
Comics), The Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors (Bongo Comics), and
VICE Magazine.
“[A]t the center of each page is a little, really cute Calvin &
Hobbes little boy, who’s just running through, and he gathers little
companions as he goes. And every page is a brand new world you
can just stare at for hours. It’s really amazing. I’m digging it. It must
be my favorite one.” — Jeff Smith author of Bone and RASL
Cover of Jon Vermilyea’s Fata Morgana
September 2013
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-03-0
$15.00 CDN
8.5 x 11 inches, 48 pages, colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Jon Vermilyea’s Fata Morgana
Little Tommy Lost: Book One
by Cole Closser
Separated from his parents on a trip to the big city, a lost little
boy unknowingly sets out on a great adventure as he searches
for a way home. Reminiscent of the newspaper strips and lushly
illustrated Sunday comics of the early 20th century, Closser’s work
is steeped in cartooning history, but is filled with an unparalleled
sense of the new.
COLE CLOSSER is a cartoonist who seemingly hails from a bygone
era. His comics are infused with the style and production methods
of newspaper cartoonists of days gone by, while remaining fresh
and current. Closser is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon
Studies in White River Junction, Vermont and he currently lives in
the Ozarks with his girlfriend and two cats.
“In Patti Smith’s documentary, “Dream of Life,” she says that
Jackson Pollock noticed a drip in the mouth of a horse in Picasso’s
Guernica and from that he created a whole new vocabulary. Cole
Closser noticed a drip in the mouth of an old man in a comics shop
and created a whole new encyclopedia of newspaper comics.
These comics are the freshest I’ve seen since my Grampop showed
me his collection of Roy Crane clippings. Amazing work and it
doesn’t even need a newspaper.” — Tony Millionaire, is a cartoonist,
illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip Maakies
and the Sock Monkey series of comics and picture books.
Cover of Cole Closser’s Little Tommy Lost
September 2013
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-01-6
$15.00 CDN
7.5 x 10 inches landscape, 72 pages, colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt fromw Cole Closser’s Little Tommy Lost
S.F. #3
by Ryan Cecil Smith
Hupa Dupa’s family is blown up by pirates, so he’s recruited into the
Space Fleet Scientific Foundation Special Forces to fight them. The
S.F.S.F.S.F. is racing across the stars forming an alliance to win the
war against the Pirate Nation. Hupa Dupa is a small kid, but he will
“try his best” to “take positive action” in order to help!
RYAN CECIL SMITH was born in southern California and currently
lives and works in Nishinomiya, Japan. Smith studied printmaking at
the Maryland Institute College of Art where in 2006 he and a group
of like-minded friends started the comics collective Closed Caption
Comics. His work is a melange of imagery and style derived from
both American and Japanese culture. It specifically recalls dōjinshi
Japan’s self-publishing movement where authors often appropriate
and détourn characters and scenarios from mainstream manga.
“The plot is outrageously fantastic and fun, an exuberant joyful
celebration of the tropes of the space adventure saga, complete
with a sentient cat, rocket cars, evil warlords, and a cute fuzzy
animal planet…Readers addicted to anime, Star Wars, and the
Wimpy Kid books will find it a huge amount of fun.” — Publishers
Weekly
Cover of Ryan Cecil Smith’s S.F. #3
September 2013
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-1-927668-00-9
$10.00 CDN
7 x 10 inches, 60 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Ryan Cecil Smith’s S.F. #3
Very Casual
by Michael DeForge
Culled from mini comics, online comics and anthology contributions,
Very Casual collects notable short stories from DeForge’s prolific
oeuvre. Included are stories about litter gangs, meat-filled
snowmen, righteous cops, beagle/human hybrids, and forestbound drag queens. Very Casual also collects Spotting Deer,
which won the Pigskin Peters Award for best non-traditional, nonnarrative or avant-garde work at the 2011 Doug Wright Awards.
Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology or
Collection
Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist
“DeForge is the current darling of the art-comics scene, and these
body-horror-as-black-comedy short stories demonstrate why.” —
Douglas Wolk, TIME
Cover of Michael DeForge’s Very Casual
May 2013
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-0-9879630-7-9
$15.00 CDN
6 x 9 inches, 152 pages, b&w and colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Michael DeForge’s Very Casual
Journal
by Julie Delporte
Journal is the first English translation of Montreal-based artist Julie
Delporte’s autobiographical comics. Delporte is a fellow of the
renowned Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) in White River Junction,
Vermont. She co-organizes Montreal’s annual “48 Heures” comics
festival and newsprint anthology, runs and co-hosts the comicscentric radio show “Dans ta Bulle” (“In Your Bubble”), and has been
published in French by Brussels-based publisher L’employé du Moi
and Montreal-based publisher Colosse. Journal displays Delporte’s
organic and immediate drawings that utilize an uncanny sense of
colour and composition to illustrate their intimate, diarist narratives.
Cataloguing an emotional breakup, an artist’s residency at CCS and
the anxieties and joys of everyday life between February 2011 and
October 2012, Delporte’s elegant illuminated diary is a private life
made public and poetic.
JULIE DELPORTE is a fellow of the renowned Center for Cartoon
Studies (CCS) in White River Junction, Vermont. She co-organizes
Montreal’s annual “48 Heures” comics festival and newsprint
anthology, runs and co-hosts the comics-centric radio show “Dans
ta Bulle” (“In Your Bubble”), and has been published in French by
Brussels-based publisher L’employé du Moi and Montreal-based
publisher Colosse.
“A thoughtful take on the day to day life of the artist, rendered in
simple and beautiful colored pencils.” — Lucas Adams, Publishers
Weekly
Cover of Julie Delporte’s Journal
May 2013
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-0-9879630-9-3
$20.00 CDN
6.5 x 9 inches, 184 pages, colour interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Julie Delporte’s Journal
Everything Takes Forever
by Victor Kerlow
Manhattan-born and based Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes
Forever, is a collection of the cartoonist and illustrator’s ink-andwash comics that blur the quotidian with the absurd. In Kerlow’s
world tacos and toast have bodies and smoke, tiny men who can
no longer copulate or consume sandwiches deal with existential
angst, and dream logic pervades. Kerlow has worked with a diverse
range of clients including The New Yorker, The New York Times,
Fantagraphics, MTV, IFC Films, Random House, The Believer,
Bloomberg, and many more. Kerlow also draws weekly illustrations
for The Metro Diary in The New York Times.
Manhattan-born and based cartoonist and illustrator VICTOR
KERLOW has self-published a number of comics and has worked
with a diverse range of clients including The New Yorker, The New
York Times, Fantagraphics, MTV, IFC Films, Random House, The
Believer, Bloomberg, and many more. Kerlow also draws weekly
illustrations for The Metro Diary in The New York Times.
“Everything Takes Forever? Pshaw. More like ‘Victor … Kerlow
Forever!’” — Tucker Stone, The Comics Journal
Cover of Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever
May 2013
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-0-9879630-8-6
$10.00 CDN
8 x 10 inches, 60 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever
Lose #5
by Michael DeForge
Lose #5 is the latest issue in Michael DeForge’s one-man anthology
series. This issue houses three self-contained stories: “Living
Outdoors” tracks two high school students as they explore a zoo
and experiment with hallucinogens. “Muskoka” is the story of a
cowboy on the road home to see his family. “Recent Hires” follows
a young author’s descent into the criminal underworld in order to
win the affections of a girl.
Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series
Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist
“I’ve discovered the work of Michael DeForge, which I’m really
digging.” — Brian Michael Bendis author of Ultimate Spider-Man,
Powers, Alias
Cover of Michael DeForge’s Lose #5
June 2013
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-0-9879630-6-2
$8.00 CDN
7 x 10 inches, 48 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover
Excerpt from Michael DeForge’s Lose #5
The Infinite Wait and Other Stories
by Julia Wertz
The Infinite Wait and Other Stories is latest book from Julia Wertz,
the critically acclaimed author of The Fart Party Vols. 1 and 2 (Atomic
Books, 2007 and 2009) and Drinking at the Movies (Random
House, 2010). In contrast to her last book, which was a full-length
graphic memoir, The Infinite Wait is not a sustained narrative, but
rather a collection of three short stories or graphic novellas. The
stories in this collection contain Wertz’s signature acerbic wit,
ribald humour and keen eye for the everyday, but they also find
the cartoonist delving into the personal. “Industry” catalogues
25 years of alternately terrible and terrific jobs, from selling golf
balls, feeding and failing to feed animals, waitressing, and finally
to cartooning and the publication of her first book. “A Strange
and Curious Place” is a love letter to Wertz’s hometown library; its
mysteries and revelations, and its ability foster growth, rebellion
and even artistic affirmation. The most sustained narrative in the
collection, the eponymous “The Infinite Wait,” chronicles Wertz’s
move from her small hometown to San Francisco, her diagnosis
with an incurable, auto-immune disease and her subsequent
discovery of comics and comic making.
The collection’s title, The Infinite Wait and Other Stories, intentionally
and ironically recalls the vacuous and pretentious book titles of the
literary elite, but these stories are the polar opposite of pretension.
They are comics born out of illness, but not defined by it, and they
are filled with the sometimes messy, heartbreaking and hilarious
moments that make up a life.
Nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best RealityBased Work
Cover of Julia Wertz’s The Infinite Wait and Other Stories
September 2012
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-0-9879630-4
$15.00 CDN
6.5 x 9 inches, 288 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover
Lose #4
by Michael DeForge
The fourth installment of Michael DeForge’s award-winning, oneartist anthology series Lose is another genre-defying mix of visual
styles and cartooning. This issue—“The Fashion Issue”—features a
post-adolescent punk’s leather-and-spike-laced metamorphosis, a
look at the lives and fashions of the exquisite corpses that make up
the Canadian Royalty, and a town that is haunted by its past, which
happens to look a lot like its present. Along with these longer
stories, Lose #4 also features shorter strips and pin-ups including
Abbey Loafer whose adventures also grace the pages of Toronto’s
Offerings zine. Lose #4 is a comic that blends the banal with the
bizarre to create a mélange that is filled with horror and discomfort,
humanity and humour.
Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series
Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist
Nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Best Single
Issue (or One-Shot)
“I just picked up Michael DeForge’s Lose #4 and it rules, like all of
his comics. I say it all the time, DeForge is one of the best out there
these days. Pick up any issue of Lose, pick them all up.” — Kate Beaton
author of Hark! A Vagrant
Cover of Michael DeForge’s Lose #4
September 2012
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-0-9879630-0-0
$8.00 CDN
7 x 10 inches, 44 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover
The Big Team Society League Book of Answers
by Team Society League
The Big Team Society League Book of Answers by Toronto jam
comics collective Team Society League (Aaron Costain, John Martz,
Steve Wolfhard, and Zach Worton) is an absurd blend of priapic
comic pantomimes that feature an adorable cast of characters
doing abominable things. Ridiculously violent and unabashedly
immature, The Big Team Society League Book of Answers is a
comic destined to be hidden between, and confiscated from, the
pages of history textbooks.
“This is one of the funniest comics I have ever seen—EVER—and I
have seen a lot of comics.” - Nick Gazin, VICE
Cover of The Big Team Society League Book of Answers
September 2012
Comics & Graphic Novels/Humour
ISBN: 978-0-9879630-1-7
$10.00 CDN
7 x 10 inches, 48 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover
Wowee Zonk 4
by Various
Created and edited by Toronto-based artists Patrick Kyle, Ginette
Lapalme and Chris Kuzma, Wowee Zonk has been a champion
of unconventional comics work and Canadian content from its
inception as a hand-printed zine in 2007. Since that time, Wowee
Zonk has grown exponentially; spanning three issues, it has published
the work of eleven up-and-coming Toronto artists. The third issue
was published by Koyama Press in 2010 and was nominated for the
Pigskin Peters Award (which recognizes non-traditional and avantgarde comics) at the 2011 Doug Wright Awards.
Wowee Zonk 4 is the largest and most ambitious issue to date,
featuring a number of Canadian and international contributors,
each with their own unique approach to storytelling and image
making. This issue will include new works by Andrei Georgescu,
Adam Buttrick, Steph Davidson, Alex Schubert, Mark Connery, Ryan
Dodgson, Donald Dixon, Benjamin Hettinga, and Marc Bell, as well
as contributions from the editors Patrick Kyle, Ginette Lapalme and
Chris Kuzma.
Wowee Zonk 4 explores the possibilities of an entirely unique
medium and continues the tradition of turning cartooning on its
head.
“If you like the fun, the quirky, the cute, the disturbing, gross,
childish, introspective, bizarre, the unusual-Wowee Zonk has
something for you and I recommend seeking it out....” - Rebecca
Narkiewicz, Word of the Nerd
Cover of Wowee Zonk 4
May 2012
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-0-9868739-9-7
$15.00 CDN
7.25 x 10.5 inches, 80 pages, black and white, softcover
By This Shall You Know Him
by Jesse Jacobs
Artist and illustrator Jesse Jacobs—whose book Even the Giants
(AdHouse, 2011) marked his major publishing debut after several
award-winning, self-published titles—describes his new comic
work, By This Shall You Know Him, as coming “out of the darkness
of oblivion.” Within the book’s confines, Jacobs states that the
reader will “bear witness to the limitless ambitions of a gang of
celestial beings as they fiddle and fuss with all sorts of molecular
arrangements, creating infinitely detailed patterns and strange new
worlds brimming with bizarre life forms. Part art-book, part graphic
novel, By This Shall You Know Him depicts all manner of beast
running, crawling and slithering towards death’s cold embrace.”
“An art comics creation myth, cosmic, disturbing, and beautifully
rendered in ice-blue and contrasting purples, with a style that
welds the lovely to the grotesque...By This Shall You Know Him is
(further) proof that fantasy in comics need not be hollow, generic,
or ingratiating. It can be troubling instead. An inspired comic!”
- Author and academic, Charles Hatfield author of Alternative
Comics, and Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby
Cover of Jesse Jacobs’s By This Shall You Know Him
May 2012
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-0-9868739-8-0
$15.00 CDN
8 x 10.25 inches, 84 pages, full colour, softcover
Wax Cross
by Tin Can Forest
Tin Can Forest (aka Pat Shewchuk and Marek Colek)—whose
Koyama Press debut Baba Yaga and the Wolf was nominated
for the 2011 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent, and
won the duo the 2011 Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Comic
Book Cartoonist—present their latest book Wax Cross. The artists
describe Wax Cross as “an alchemical folktale set in the twilight
of the modern age, when the moon has devoured the sun, the
mechanical ocean has evaporated into silence, and the decaying
corpse of electric current sleeps eternally in a casket of orange
lichen. Featuring a cast of characters as familiar as the faded
Polaroids in a photo album salvaged from the flooded basement of
a condemned church,
Wax Cross presents illustrated transcriptions of ectoplasmic
revelation, fibrous and grainy folklore, and unbridled bestial
merriment, accompanied by textual incantations and occult
decoration.”
Cover of Tin Can Forest’s Wax Cross
May 2012
Comics & Graphic Novels/Literary
ISBN: 978-0-9868739-7-3
$20.00 CDN
9 x 11.75 inches, 36 pages, full colour, softcover
Comics Class by Matthew Forsythe
44 pages of loosely-drawn, quasiautobiographical comics about the
comics class Forsythe taught to a class
of disaffected class of 11-year old. This
hilarious collection of half-truths and halfbaked theories lovingly skewers the life
of a working cartoonist, and it might just
teach you something, maybe.
Lose # 3 by Michael DeForge
A self-contained issue in Michael DeForge’s
one-man anthology series. In the issue’s main
story, “Dogs 2070,” screenwriter Stephen
tries to reconnect with his ex-wife and son in
a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
ISBN 97-0-986739-1-1 ● $5.00 CDN
ISBN: 978-0-986873966 ● $5.00 CDN
Rivers Forgotten
by Jeremy Kai
A journey through the passages and
portals of the underground waterways
that lie unseen below cities. Self-taught
photographer, Jeremy Kai brings these
forgotten landscapes to light.
ISBN: 978-0-9868739-5-6 ● $25.00 CDN
Root Rot by Various
A forest themed anthology co-edited by
Michael DeForge and Annie Koyama. Book
design by Diana McNally. Contributors include
Jon Vermilyea, Derek M. Ballard, Dan Zettwoch,
T. Edward Bak, Robin Nishio, Ines Estrada, Lizz
Hickey, Mickey Zacchili, Jesse Jacobs, Jason
Fischer, Hellen Jo, Angie Wang, Greg Pizzoli,
Joe Lambert, Bob Flynn and Chris “Elio”
Eliopoulos.
ISBN 978-0-9784810-9-4 ● $12.00 CDN
The World of Gloria Badcock by Maurice Vellekoop
Time travel! Lesbianism! Gay three-ways!
Bionic love-machines! Celebrity product
endorsement!! All this and more is found
in acclaimed illustrator and author Maurice
Vellekoop’s first all-new comic in more than
ten years.
ISBN: 978-0-9868739-4-2 ● $5.00 CDN
Monster Party by Chris “Elio” Eliopoulos
Oscar is in big trouble! He just found out four
ferocious monsters have been living secretly
in his dark and dirty basement. To make
matters worse, the gruesome gang wants
to march upstairs and party! Can Oscar
convince his new furry friends to go back to
the basement without being discovered? Or
did this beastly bash just get started?
ISBN: 978-0-9868739-0-4 ● $5.00 CDN
Colour Me Busy by Keith Jones
CATLAND EMPIRE and BACTER-AREA creator
Keith Jones returns with his newest project–a
colouring book!
ISBN: 978-0-9868739-3-5 ● $5.00 CDN
Grey Supreme by Mark Laliberte
A print-based “project platform,” a way to
collect experiments with image, text and
hybrid forms. Composed of the projects
“Swallow,” an illustrated suite of “drowning
cartoons”; and “Double Rainbow,” a
photographic sequence exploring repetition
and rainbows.
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Precious Gems by Team Macho
Team Macho is a collaborative illustration and
fine art effort composed of Lauchie Reid, Chris
Buchan, Nicholas Aoki, Jacob Whibley, and
Stephen Appleby-Barr.
ISBN 978-0-9784810-1-8 ● $15.00 CDN
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