kuš! winter season 2017

The kuš! anniversary year is off to a great start! We're snowed in here and temperatures are freezing cold, but we won't wait for the snow to melt to provide you with six hot new books. Our artists have been busy drawing for you...

Illustration by Amanda Baeza    

We'll release four new mini kuš! by Daniel Lima, Olive Booger, Martin Lacko, and Mathilde Van Gheluwe, our long awaited 27th issue of the š! anthology with the theme "BFF", and a new kuš! mono titled Brume by Amanda Baeza!

You can pre-order the 4 mini kuš! together at reduced costs here or get each mini kuš! separately here. š! #27 'BFF' can be ordered here. In case you'd also like to get the following š! issues and mini kuš! releases, get a subscription here. The mono kuš! by Amanda Baeza is NOT part of the subscription, and can be pre-ordered separately here (worldwide shipping costs included in price).

Preview:

mini kuš! #47 'Sutrama' by Daniel Lima, will be released on 24 January 2017.

Sutrama is a narrative about Roberte’s predilection for paradox and semantic opacity, playing incessantly with irony. This scenic dialogue becomes a polished surface for the green analyst, in which the prime meaning to be discerned is the analyst's own reflection. As certain as death, our hero is a masturbator clown…

Format: A6, 28 pages, saddle stitch binding, full-color

Funded by the Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas/Portugal. 

mini kuš! #48 'Nul' by Olive Booger, will be released on 24 January 2017

'Nul' is the story of a young man who will do literally anything and go anywhere for his crush. The lovestruck protagonist’s ensuing endeavour quickly turns into a hellish nightmare...

Format: A6, 28 pages, saddle stitch binding, full-color

mini kuš! #49 'Call of Cthulhu' by Martin Lacko/ H. P. Lovecraft, will be released on 24 January 2017

Hilarious adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Call of Cthulhu' drawn in MS Paint! A must-read for all fans of the green monster and his spawn.
 
Format: A6, 28 pages, saddle stitch binding, full-color

mini kuš! #50 'Spectacular Vermacular' by Mathilde Van Gheluwe, will be released on 24 January 2017

During the latest very late late talk show, the famous Hollywood star Vlad the Cat remembers the glorious old days, a bittersweet tale of an overwhelming Hollywood career.

Format: A6, 28 pages, saddle stitch binding, full-color

š! #27 'BFF', will be released 24 January 2017

This issue is the result of our open call and contains comics from all around the world about friendship. It's complicated, lol!

Cover: Hironori Kikuchi (Japan) Contributors: BloodBros (New Zealand), deadtheduck (India), Derrengueta (Spain), Émilie Gleason (Mexico), Erlend Peder Kvam (Norway), Gareth Brookes (UK), Gonçalo Duarte (Portugal), Hironori Kikuchi (Japan), König Lü. Q. (Switzerland), Krystal DiFronzo (USA), Līva Piterāne (Latvia), Louise Aleksiejew (France), Lucas Souza Teixeira (Brazil), Lukas Weidinger (Austria), Marie Weber (France), Melek Zertal (Algeria), Shawn Eisenach (USA), Shee Phon (China), Till Lukat (Germany), Tor Brandt (Denmark).

Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation

'Brume' by Amanda Baeza, kuš! mono #2, will be released 21 February 2017

Although Amanda Baeza’s drawings seem to come from another world, the collected comics in Brume are based on real events and real feelings. Her graphic personality is exceptional – so distinct and at the same time so mutable, and even more uncommon is the way in which her words and images create original narratives and visual poems.

Format: A5 (14.8 cm x 21 cm / 6" x 8"), 116 pages, full-color, perfect bound

Funded by the Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas/Portugal.  




We're very excited to begin the kuš! 10 year anniversary with these wonderful books! Hope you'll enjoy them, too, and don't you worry, this is only the start! So better follow updates on our twitter, facebook, instagram or tumblr and discover more of our books on our site!