Here are a few panels from NOC (night), a six page comic I did for AARGH! Eastern Europe's finest comics anthology magazine. This upcoming issue of AARGH! hits the newsstands in the Czech Republic last week of January.

The editor of AARGH!, Tomáš Prokupek, is also currently writing a history of Czech comics. We visited with Tomáš last summer when we were in Prague, and he showed us scans of the comic art he's been assembling from various library archives. Really fantastic stuff, including some hilarious pro-communist comic strips by a beloved children's author that depict potatoe beetles as imperialist parasites! Tomáš also sent me some copies of early comics by my hero Josef Lada that I had never seen before, I don't think they've been reprinted since they first appeared in the 1920's.

Our friend Jaromír Plachý recently put out Koule a Krychle. The comic is really funny and witty, I particularly like Jaromír's use of Czech slang. Besides drawing comics, Jaromír is also an animator and game designer. Check out his stuff here.

Some reviews of our Koyama Press book Baba Yaga and The Wolf : Avoid The Future , The Great God Pan Is Dead , Sequential | Canadian Comics News & Culture


Baba Yaga and The Wolf is available at many fine comic art emporiums throughout the land, ask your local sequential art merchant if they carry Koyama Press titles. You can also order a copy from us, right here

This past December Pat and Steve Wilson curated the KRAMPUSNACHT 2010 group show at the Resister Gallery in Toronrto. The exhibit just wrapped up on January 10th, but you can check out some of the work in the latest issue of Steel Bananas . More photos here courtesy of Olesya Muhaylivna, Jessica Fortner, and Steve Wilson.

Victory Party

An evening spent with Geoff Berner’s music is, in the words of the good Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, “a wild combination of menace, madness, and genius… fragmented coherence that wreaks havoc on the mind of any listener.” – Vue Weekly, Edmonton

Geoff Berner's upcoming album Victory Party will be released on March 8 by Mint Records. We did the design and artwork for the cover and a 24 page booklet that includes illustrations for each of the ten songs on the record. Animated music video is in the works as well.

Geoff Berner
Mint Records

Around The World In 50 Comics and Carousel Magazine

We were part of the "LE MONDE diplomatique: In 50 Comics um die Welt" exhibit during Literaturfest in Munich. Photos courtesy of Karoline Bofinger.

The exhibit moves next to KOEPPENHAUS, runs 21. 1. 2011 - 19. 3. 2011 . Opening night : 21. 1. 2011, 8 pm. The "LE MONDE diplomatique: In 50 Comics um die Welt" book can be purchased from the publisher REPRODUKT.

I have a few drawings in the latest Carousel magazine (#26), out now! Great wraparound cover by our friend Aaron Leighton, an extensive feature on Koyama Press, comics by Drazen Kozjan and Michael Deforge, and soooo much more.
Below: Poetry by Liz Worth, Jessica Moore, and Shelagh Rowan-Legg. Ink and brush from Tin Can Forest. Carousel is available at fine bookstores everywhere and here .