Koyama Press announced four new titles Tuesday that are set to debut this spring: Very Casual and Lose #5 by Michael DeForge, Journal by Julie Delporte and Everything Takes Forever by Victor Kerlow. Keep reading for details ...

Very Casual

ISBN: 978-0-9879630-7-9

$15

6 x 9 inches, 152 pages, b&w and color interior, color softcover.

May 2013

Spring 2013 will bring a double dose of DeForge starting with Very Casual. 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 forest-bound drag queens. Very Casual also collects Spotting Deer, which won the Pigskin Peters Award for best non-traditional, non-narrative or avant-garde work at the 2011 Doug Wright Awards.

Lose #5

ISBN: 978-0-9879630-6-2

$8

7 x 10 inches, 48 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover.

June 2013

Lose #5 is the latest issue in his 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.

Journal

ISBN: 978-0-9879630-9-3

$20

6.5 x 9 inches, 184 pages, color interior, color softcover.

May 2013

Koyama Press will also be publishing the first English translation of Montreal-based artist Julie Delporte’s autobiographical comics called Journal. 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. 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.

 

Everything Takes Forever

ISBN: 978-0-9879630-8-6

$10

8 x 10 inches, 60 pages, b&w interior, color softcover.

May 2013

Spring 2013 will be rounded out by Manhattan-born and based Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever, which is a collection of the cartoonist and illustrator’s ink-and-wash 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 includingThe 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.