š! #26 coming out soon

Daaaddddddaaaaa! The kuš! fall season continues with a slightly crazy issue. 2016 marks the centenary of the Dadaist movement. To celebrate this fittingly, international artists created their very own absurdist comics inspired by Dada. It’s time to lose your mind and achieve eternal bliss with š! #26 'dADa'.

š! #26 'dADa', will be released on 18 October 2016

Cover: Zane Zlemeša (Latvia). Contributors: A. Burkholder (USA), Brie Moreno (Canada), Cátia Serrão (Portugal), Daniel Lima (Angola), Dāvis Ozols (Latvia), Dunja Janković (Croatia), Dylan Jones (USA), Ernests Kļaviņš (Latvia), Jaakko Pallasvuo (Finland), José Ja Ja Ja (Spain), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), Līva Kandevica (Latvia), Maija Kurševa (Latvia), Marc Bell (Canada), Mārtiņš Zutis (Latvia), Olaf Ladousse (Spain), Roman Muradov (Russia), Saehan Park (South Korea), Sammy Stein (France), Vincent Fritz (Germany) and Zane Zlemeša (Latvia). With an introduction by: Agathe Mareuge (France)

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation

Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, high quality and environmentally friendly Munken paper.

Get it:  Pre-order it for $13.95 from our webshop, or get a kuš! subscription and receive also the next kuš! titles (like the minis we released last week)...

Preview Pages:

 A. Burkholder

 Brie Moreno

 Cátia Serrão

 Dylan Jones

 Daniel Lima

 Līva Kandevica

Jaakko Pallasvuo

 Maija Kurševa

 Sammy Stein

Vincent Fritz 

To read the whole issue and da da da da da, you can pre-order š! #25 'dADa' here. Let's celebrate!

kuš! fall season has started

The mushroom and berry picking season has begun! kuš! is very happy to announce it's ripe mini kuš! offerings for the fall. They will be released immediately and you can order them now!  

Excerpt from Daria Tessler's mini kuš!

Michael DeForge, Ville Kallio, Daria Tessler and Anna Sailamaa created very special stories to lighten up your fall or to make it even darker, you choose....

Each book has 28 pages, full color throughout, offset printed  in Latvia on high quality environmentally friendly Munken Pure paper, saddle stitch binding, pocket format (A6). Released on 28 September 2016.

Order the mini kuš! collection for $19 here or get each mini kuš! separately for $6 (worldwide shipping costs already included in the price!). In case you'd also like to get the following kuš! releases, subscribe here.

Preview:

mini kuš! #43 'Meat Locker' by Michael DeForge

Short strips about gyms, trainers and meatheads.

 

 

mini kuš! #44 'P-FE/FRAF' by Ville Kallio

Automation did not free us from work, it merely allowed an ever expanding production of highly advanced weapons technologies and surveillance. The air saturated by nanomachines produces a distinct hum.

 

 

mini kuš! #45 'Music of Changes' by Daria Tessler

Genetically modified plants grow into randomized sculptures. Order and disorder, determinism and unpredictability, protestors and magic tricks all commingle at the John Cage art farm.

 

mini kuš! #46 'Everyone Is Hungry' by Anna Sailamaa

The slow moments before falling into sleep. The sound of sparrow’s wing feathers, a rumpled tablecloth and curtains moving with the wind. The night draws closer and gently darkens the sky.

Pick your favorite berries and mushrooms, place your order here, and soon you'll get the required vitamins for your brain to get through the fall! And watch out, very soon the kuš! book season continues with the š! anthology #26.

š! #25 coming out soon!

š! #25 'Gaijin Mangaka' will be a very a special issue, Paul Gravett sums it up best in his introduction to this book:

"Something extraordinary is happening right now in the wider global manga movement outside Japan, a further sea-change in its irrepressible revolution and evolution, and this special issue of kuš! captures a vital snapshot of this through brand-new work by some key current innovators working outside Japan. From the ceaseless two-way ebb-and-flow of influences between manga and Western comics, Berliac and David Schilter have gathered an exciting crop of contemporary ‘gaijin mangaka’, so-called ‘foreign comics creators’, predominantly young writer-artists from Europe and North and South America."

š! #25 'Gaijin Mangaka', will be released 26 July 2016

Cover: Berliac (Argentina) Contributors: Andrés Magán (Spain), Aseyn (France), Ben Marcus (USA), Berliac (Argentina), Daylen Seu (USA), Dilraj Mann (UK), GG (Canada), Gloria Rivera (USA), Hetamoé (Portugal), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), Luis Yang (Spain), Mickey Zacchilli (USA), Nou (USA), Vincenzo Filosa (Italy), xuh (Poland). Coeditor: Berliac With an introduction by: Paul Gravett (UK)

Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, high quality and environmentally friendly Munken paper.

Get it:  Pre-order it for $13.95 from our webshop or get a kuš! subscription and receive also the next kuš! titles.

Preview Pages:

 Andrés Magán

š! #21 'Business Time' released!

Right in time for workers' day the 21st comics anthology š! was released with the theme 'Business Time'.  Twenty Latvian and international artists got up early, brushed their teeth, put on their nicest suits and created business-minded stories for š! #21 'Business Time'.

Cover: Brecht Vandenbroucke (Belgium)

Contributors: Ann Pajuväli (Estonia), Anna Haifisch (Germany), Anna Vaivare (Latvia), Berliac (Argentina), Brecht Vandenbroucke (Belgium), Chris Kuzma (Canada), Disa Wallander (Sweden), Harukichi (Japan), Jeroen Funke (The Netherlands), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), Lai Tat Tat Wing (Hong Kong), Laura Ķeniņš (Canada/Latvia), Līva Kandevica (Latvia), Lote Vilma Vītiņa (Latvia), Maciej Sieńczyk (Poland), Olive Booger (France), Roope Eronen (Finland), Rūta Briede (Latvia), Sergi Puyol (Spain) and Zane Zlemeša (Latvia).

Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, locally printed in Riga on high quality, environmentally friendly Munken paper

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation

Get it:  Order it here ($14, international shipping costs included) or get yourself a kuš! subscription and receive also our next titles.

Preview: 

Sergi Puyol

Olive Booger

Jeroen Funke

Harukichi

Līva Kandevica

Anna Haifisch

Maciej Sieńczyk

Lai Tat Tat Wing

 Anna Vaivare

... and much more! Wanna create your own business, get tips and tricks to be more successful with your current ventures, or just want to have a laugh, then better get š! #21 'Business Time now!

š! #21 coming out soon!

It's all about business! Better get up early and put on a nice tie. Or not? On the first of May we'll celebrate the International Workers Day with a new issue of the comics anthology š! How funny and cruel daily business can be, you can see in these stories from twenty international artists in š! #21 'Business Time'. But now please first memorize the rest of the memo!

Cover: Brecht Vandenbroucke (Belgium)

Contributors: Ann Pajuväli (Estonia), Anna Haifisch (Germany), Anna Vaivare (Latvia), Berliac (Argentina), Brecht Vandenbroucke (Belgium), Chris Kuzma (Canada), Disa Wallander (Sweden), Harukichi (Japan), Jeroen Funke (The Netherlands), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), Lai Tat Tat Wing (Hong Kong), Laura Ķeniņš (Canada/Latvia), Līva Kandevica (Latvia), Lote Vilma Vītiņa (Latvia), Maciej Sieńczyk (Poland), Olive Booger (France), Roope Eronen (Finland), Rūta Briede (Latvia), Sergi Puyol (Spain) and Zane Zlemeša (Latvia).

Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, locally printed in Riga on high quality, environmentally friendly Munken paper

Release date: May 1st, 2015

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation

Get it:  Pre-order it here ($14, international shipping costs included) or get yourself a kuš! subscription and receive also our next titles.

Preview pages:

Anna Vaivare

Berliac

Chris Kuzma

Harukichi

Jeroen Funke

Lai Tat Tat Wing

Anna Haifisch

Olive Booger

Sergi Puyol

Līva Kandevica

To read the whole issue and get yourself a head start in your own business ventures, you can pre-order š! #21 'Business Time' here. Go get yourself this well deserved bonus! There's no business like comics business!