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I drew this cute krang-esque dummy for The New Yorker this week, to accompany a funny essay by Patricia Marx

Koyama Press is pleased to announce four new titles set to début in Spring 2013. VERY CASUAL and LOSE #5 by Michael DeForge, JOURNAL by Julie Delporte and EVERYTHING TAKES FOREVER by Victor Kerlow.

Very Casual ISBN: 978-0-9879630-7-9 $15.00  6 x 9 inches, 152 pages, b&w and colour interior, colour 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 $8.00  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 $20.00  6.5 x 9 inches, 184 pages, colour interior, colour 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 $10.00  8 x 10 inches, 60 pages, b&w interior, colour softcover.  May 2013