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.

mini kuš! #18-21

The next mini kuš! # 18-21 are in print now and will be released on November 27th! We're very proud of the international cast who contributed a very adventurous comic each: Michael Jordan (Germany), Berliac (Argentina), Jean de Wet (South Africa) and Renata Gąsiorowska (Poland).

You can now order each of the books from our webshop seperately for $ 6.00 each or also as collection for 18.00 $ (worldwide shipping costs already included in the price). Each book has 24 pages + cover, English text, full color offset print on high quality paper (Munken), saddle stitch binding, format DIN A6. Jean de Wet's comics is printed with a blue Pantone spot color.

Here follows a sneak peek of all the covers and some inside pages:

mini kuš! #18

This No Place to Stay', Michael Jordan

'This No Place to Stay' is a semi-fictional, semi-biographical story by the German artist Michael Jordan. His bearded alter ego travels through a coffee cup into a labyrinth inside a hospital laboratory. Hopefully the wound in the nurse's hand can rescue him...

Behind the Comics XVI - Inés Estrada

This time it's Inés Estrada's turn to give some insight into the making of her mini kuš! 'Borrowed Tails'.

Inés Estrada // *1990, Mexico. Inés is an illustrator and comics maker from Mexico City. Every day she is exposed to huge amounts of car smog and colours that might have damaged her brain for worse. She enjoys making sandwiches and stickers and together with Ginette Lapalme co-edits the bilingual anthology Gang Bang Bong. Her self-published book 'Ojitos Borrosos' was nominated for the 2012 Ignatz awards in two categories - "Outstanding artist” and “Best collection”.

Find her on tumblr and visit her colorful webshop!

Inés: This is my studio. It is also my bedroom. And also the only room in my house! I live in a really small apartment, but I like it that way. I love the orientation it has, it gets sunlight all day, which is perfect for drawing. I live in Mexico City, and let me tell you, we have sunlight for 12 hours all year round. It’s a beautiful thing that sadly everyone takes for granted here... I can tell you that I wouldn’t be able to survive somewhere like Latvia with such harsh, dark winters!

š! #14 'Sports' and mini kuš! #14-17

Twenty-two international comics artists contributed stories to the Baltic Comics Magazine š! #14 'Sports', which as the name says, is a comics anthology from the Baltics about sports. Not all of the artists taking part consider themselves very sportive, but anyway have very colorful, exciting and sweaty stories to tell. About basketball, cycling, ping pong, roller derby. quidditch and much more …

The four new mini kuš! by Tiina Lehikoinen, Heta Bilaletdin, Emelie Östergren and Inés Estrada are little 28-pages-books with comics each by the mentioned artists on a slightly wider theme named 'modern heroes', but are as diverse and crazy as it can get.

There are different options how you can get those comics from our webshop:
š! # 14 'sports' (USD 13.00) / mini kuš! seperatly (USD 6.00) / mini kuš! package (USD 18.00) / š! and all mini kuš! (USD 30.00) / kuš! subscription (USD 55.00) - We ship worldwide and the shipping costs are already included in the price!

You can also get them offline in different shops in Riga and soon in bookstores around the world - see where (click)

mini kuš! # 14-17 preview

Happily we announce the upcoming release of four new mini kuš! by artists from our neighboring countries Finland and Sweden and from slightly further away from Mexico. Tiina Lehikoinen, Heta Bilaletdin, Emelie Östergren and Inés Estrada have some pretty crazy stories to tell you...

Now you can already pre-order them from our webshop. But let's have a closer look at each of them:

mini kuš! #10-13 are out!

Exciting day at the kuš! HQ - The mini kuš! #10 - 13 are printed! Best imaginable start into 2013!

Read more about them below, see some preview and order them from our our webshop or website. Soon also available in shops! (Currently in Riga Lukabuka (Opera), Galerija Istaba, Randoms, Muhamors, Dizaina drukas studijā TELPA and Kafka Kafija, but soon also in selected international shops)

Hot releases for cold January!

We are happy to announce the release of four new mini kuš! These comics, which are in line with the vague mini kuš! overall theme "modern heroes" will be released on January 15th, 2013. 

Each mini kuš! is in our beloved A6 format, has 28 pages and comes in full color in English language with Latvian subtitles, except #12, which has no subs. Now you can already pre-order them from our webshop.


mini kuš! #10 'Otso' by Mari Ahokoivu

Otso, Kontio, Karhu, Bære, Bear, Ours, Meška, Lācis… – Mari Ahokoivu’s fearless hero has many names. Join him for a dreamy adventure through space and time! 

mini kuš! #13

mini kuš! #13 could have your name on it!

We just released four new mini kuš! and are very excited how they turned out, so we decided to print four more before Christmas! The mini kuš! #10-12 are ready to be published, but we have one more printing slot which could be for your comics!

new mini kuš! printed

The 4 new mini kuš! by Box Brown, Ernests Kļavinš & Andrejs Kļavinš, Akvilė Misevičiūtė and Dace Sietiņa are printed!

You can now get them in our webshop or soon also in selected bookshops. You can order all together on a '4 for 3' deal for $18.00, or also individually for $6.00. Each book has 28 pages, is full color, handy format A6, English with Latvian subtitles.

Here is a preview of how they look:

 

  

mini kuš! #9 'Bobis' coming soon

Among three other mini kuš! after a few days we will release Bobis by Dace Sietiņa!

How is it possible that a usual evening with three cups of chamomile tea and dozing off in a chair can turn into a flaming venture with your dead grandma and an old hypnotizing pop song on the Moon? Dace Sietiņa’s 'Bobis' will tell you.

Format: A6, 28 pages, stiched binding, full-color, Latvia withEnglish  subtitles

Get it: will be released on the 26th of September 2012, pre-order it at our webshop!

mini kuš! #8 "The Flames' coming soon

Among three other mini kuš! after a few days we will release The Flames by Akvilė Misevičiūtė!

When two teenagers visit their grandmother to enjoy the beautiful green countryside, they quickly discover that a big corporation is polluting the surrounding nature. In 'The Flames' Akvilė Misevičiūtė tells their magical quest for dealing with this evil.

mini kuš! #7 "Rainbow of Pain' coming soon

Among three other mini kuš! after a few days we will release Rainbow of Pain by Ernests Kļaviņš and Andrejs Kļaviņš!

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Or is it? The only thing sure is that the sports world depicted by Ernests Kļaviņš and Andrejs Kļaviņš in 'Rainbow of Pain' is perfectly crazy - 9 points!

mini kuš! #6 'Killman' coming soon

In the end of September we will release 4 new mini kuš!, one of them will be Killman by Box Brown

Box Brown’s hero Robert Cordozar Brodus Killman is on a mission to kill all gods, but it isn’t all that easy. First he needs to fight his biggest foe - The Everything. Be prepared for an epic space battle!

4 new mini kuš!

We are happy to announce that in the end of September we will release four new mini kuš! in our mini comics series which goes under the theme of 'modern heroes'. mini kuš! are comics by individual artists -  each artist makes one slightly longer story than in the regular kuš! or š!. The new comics are by Box Brown (USA), Ernests Kļavinš & Andrejs Kļavinš (Latvia), Akvilė Misevičiūtė (Lithuania) and Dace Sietiņa (Latvia).    

The previous issues each had 16 pages plus a cover. The new mini kuš! are slightly thicker with 24 pages plus cover each. mini kuš! is in A6 format, full color and in English language with Latvian subtitles, except #9, which is the other way around. You can already pre-order them now.

mini kuš! #6 'Killman' by Box Brown

Box Brown’s hero Robert Cordozar Brodus Killman is on a mission to kill all gods, but it isn’t all that easy. First he needs to fight his biggest foe - The Everything. Be prepared for an epic space battle!

mini kuš! #7 'Rainbow of Pain' by Ernests Kļaviņš & Andrejs Kļaviņš

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Or is it? The only thing sure is that the sports world depicted by Ernests Kļaviņš and Andrejs Kļaviņš in Rainbow of Pain is perfectly crazy - 9 points!

mini kuš! #8 'The Flames' by Akvilė Misevičiūtė

When two teenagers visit their grandmother to enjoy the beautiful green countryside, they quickly discover that a big corporation is polluting the surrounding nature. In The Flames Akvilė Misevičiūtė tells their magical quest for dealing with this evil.

mini kuš! #9 'Bobis' by Dace Sietiņa

How is it possible that a usual evening with three cups of chamomile tea and dozing off in a chair can turn into a flaming venture with your dead grandma and an old hypnotizing pop song on the Moon? Dace Sietiņa’s Bobis will tell you.


Each of these little books will cost 6 US Dollars in our webshop, or 20$ if you order all of them together. This is a pretty good deal, as the shipping costs are included in the price already. You can now already pre-order them, or wait until the 26th of September, when they will be out and also distributed to shops. Soon we also show some more insights from each issue!

These comics have been released without financial support, kickstarting or boot selling, but your support by purchasing them is highly appreciated!

If you would like to stock them write us to komikss(at)gmail.com and ask us about our wholesale conditions.