Koyama Press

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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