Koyama Announces Fall 2017 Titles And Confirms Celebratory Trip To Japan That Publishing Season



Publisher Annie Koyama of Koyama Press made a pair of key announcements this morning in conjunction with Koyama Press' celebratory 10-year anniversary appearance at TCAF. Koyama made available the titles making up the house's Fall 2017 offerings and announced the publisher's intention to take a trip to Japan this Fall's to revisit the site of the company's first book release.

This season's authors are: Patrick Kyle (Everywhere Disappeared), Connor Willumsen (Anti-Gone), Hannah K. Lee (Language Barrier), Sophia Foster-Dimino (Sex Fantasy), Noel Freibert (Old Ground) and GG (I'm Not Here). Today's press information indicates that this is one returning artist (Kyle) and five newcomers, which they term "a wonderful way to round out our 10th anniversary."

Early solicitation/promotional copy for each book follows.

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* Anti-Gone, Connor Willumsen, Softcover, 9781927668511, 120 pages, September, $15.

Solicitation Copy: "Join an oneiric odyssey through a slacker second life.

"Reality's grip is loosened as Spyda and Lynxa explore a potentially constructed environment that shifts between dystopic future and constructed virtual present. Like a form of multi-stable perceptual phenomena, Anti-Gone exists in ambiguity."

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* Everywhere Disappeared, Patrick Kyle, Softcover, 9781927668528, 208 pages, September, $15.

Solicitation Copy: "Collecting a cornucopia of short comics by one of the medium's most inventive artists.

"A keen observer of the absurd, Patrick Kyle's stories defamiliarize the machinations of life, work and art with droll dialogue and his angular, humanely geometric drawing and sci-fi settings that recall set design more than satellite images. Kyle's figures may be foreign, his settings strange, but his stories resonate deeply."

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* Language Barrier, Hannah K. Lee, Softcover, 9781927668474, 128 pages, September, $20.

Solicitation Copy: "Collecting zines and comics filled with gorgeous illustration and artful design that attempt to translate modern life.

"The real meaning behind emojis, the subtext of sexts, the financial cryptography of flats and pumps, and more are revealed in this witty and wonderfully drawn collection. Hannah K. Lee melds elegant typography, beautiful illustration and trenchant text to make an acerbic art book."

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* Sex Fantasy, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Softcover, 9781927668467, 440 pages, September, $18.

Solicitation Copy: "A salacious title belies a moving look at intimacy and all its delicacies and absurdities.

"Begun as a loose, ephemeral zine that was produced in limited editions, these small comics in both size and length are esoteric and immensely personal. Covering a span of four years, the comics collected here build a relationship that is deeper than their elegantly drawn surfaces."

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* Old Ground, Noel Freibert, Softcover, 9781927668504, 224 pages, September, $18.

Solicitation Copy: "Sam Beckett and Sam Raimi intersect in an outsider art graveyard.

"A cemetery so old that the names on the graves have eroded into nothing and no one remembers the dead is razed to make room for a retirement home for folks who've also been forgotten. Ambience and slapstick combine as an absurd cast of characters inhabit and haunt the once hallowed ground."

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* I'm Not Here, GG, Softcover, 9781927668498, 104 pages, September, $12.

Solicitation Copy: "A woman torn between her family and her independence, unmoored between what is and what could be.

"A young, second-generation woman wanders through her city and memories encountering the world through a camera's lens; her independence pulled by the gravity of familial responsibility. She drifts until she encounters what could possibly be her potential self."

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Koyama also announced that after beginning their 10-year celebration with every author represented on their Spring list attending TCAF 2017, that with the help of a grant they will visit Japan this Fall, where their first book was launched.

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