The Many Face of Koyama Press

OuterSpace Gallery is pleased to host "The Many Faces of Koyama Press" the first in an ongoing series of publisher spotlight exhibitions at Outerspace Gallery. We wish to provide arts publishers a platform to show their various publications side by side, to truly allow the viewer an understanding of the publishers vision. 

We will be exhibiting the near complete catalog of publications produced by the crucial Canadian comics and art publisher Koyama Press. 

We will also be exhibiting the artwork of six artists who have been published by Koyama Press - Patrick Kyle, Jesse Jacobs, Luke Ramsey, Tin Can Forest, Alex Schubert and Allister Lee .

This exhibition is for everyone who enjoys art, comics/graphic novels and books in general. 

The exhibition will take place during Culture Days at Centennial Square in Victoria, BC.
September 27th-29th, 2013

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Free Drawings Newspaper #6 Available

The current issue (#6) includes the following artists: Luke Ramsey, Luke Painter, Andrew Wilson, Ron Regé Jr, Steph Davidson, Seripop, Matt Hart, Fiona Smyth, Jesjit Gill and Michael Deforge.

We will be including a copy in all orders purchased through Anteism. While supplies last.

The deadlines for next issue is January 2010, so send your drawings to freedrawingsnewspaper{at}gmail.com

Free DIY Artist Book by Warren Craghead

Warren Craghead has released a new do it yourself book called a circle, a sphere. Download the PDF, print the book on your printer and blam you got yourself a rad little zine. View Craghead's previous free book / zine "The Surf and the Face."

4 Issues of Cold Heat Comic Free Online

Cold Heat is a comic written by Ben Jones (Paper Rad) and drawn by Frank Santoro (Storeyville), Cold Heat is the story of Castle, an 18 year old girl who embarks on a life altering adventure through anti-depressants, corporate rock'n'roll, globalization and sex.

Cold Heat is a hypnotically tranced out, maximum volume take on the action/adventure genre that stays out all night and doesn't come home until the party's over and it's time to crash.

Cold Heat is a ten issue comic. 6 issues have been published so far. Read the first four issues online. Buy issues 5 and 6 at Picturebox. Issues 7 and 8 will be available at SPX.

Free Drawings Newspaper Available @ Anteism

Anteism will be distributing the radical FREE DRAWINGS Newspaper published by Jesjit Gill in Toronto. Free Drawings is a free newspaper showcasing nothing but awesome drawings and comics. The newspaper format is great because it allows for huge full page images. The paper when unfolded expands to 17" wide  by 23" high. We will be adding the newspaper in all our online orders. If you would like a copy of the newspaper we can mail you one, because it is FREE!!! Although postage is not... Give me an email if you would like a copy and I'll send one out to you. Postage should be no more than $2 in North America.

The current issue is #5 and includes artwork by Andrew Bailey, Joshua Bastien, Rudolph Bikkers, Bruno Borges, Marja Bui, Lisa Czech, Clare Cosco, Mark Connery, Morgan Criger, Robert Dayton, Mark Delong, Tomas Del Balso, Ryan Dodgson, Noel Friebert, Ramy Gorgis, Kevin Hainey, Natalie Halford, David Hanes, Keith Herzik, Reid Jenkins, Jacob Jurkiewicz, Peter Kalynuik, Stephanie Kervin, Zane Kozak, Patrick Kyle, Nicole Legault, Doran McAtamney, Laura McCoy, Jason McLean, Julii McMillan, Alicia Selbie, Sally Sheeks, Valerie Sury, Tetsunori Tawaraya, Peter Thompson, Davis Weir, Andrew Wilson, Stefan Whitem, Andrew Zukerman.

Smoke Signal - Free Comics Newspaper

Smoke Signal is a free all-comics newspaper published by the great Desert Island in Brooklyn, New York.  Anteism hopes to be distributing the papers throughout Victoria and possibly Vancouver this Fall.

The paper is open to artwork submissions, the guidelines are as follows.

Anteism @ Toronto Comic Arts Festival

Anteism Publishing will be sharing a table with Peter Thompson and James Kirkpatrick at the upcoming Toronto Comics Arts Festival. Come by and say hi, it's free to get in and we will be feeling lonely in the big city. There are ton of awesome artists and publishers attending. "The Toronto Comic Arts Festival exists to promote the breadth and diversity of comics, and what is considered comics, as legitimate medium of literary and artistic worth. We seek to promote the creators of these works in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics and to reach as wide an audience as possible for them."

The fourth Toronto Comic Arts Festival will occur on Saturday May 9th and Sunday May 10th, 2009. It will be held in the Toronto Reference Library, in downtown Toronto, Canada.

THE 2009 TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL Saturday May 9th , 10am-5pm Sunday May 10th, 11am-5pm Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St., Toronto, Canada

3 Jonathan Petersen Books

We're proud to have three Jonathan Petersen books up for sale in our online shop. Jonathan's intricate drawings and strange folk tales mesh into dream like sequences which are broken by sarcastic spoof advertisments. Check out the "The World's Best Cookie" ,"Good Stories" & "AD-FRIEND-TURE Stories" .

Aaron Noble - Rebuilding a Super Heroe

Aaron Noble's paintings look like super heroes deflating like a balloon and zig-zagging across the universe. Aaaron uses images found in 90's comics (most notably published by IMAGE). Theses abstracts are instantly recognizable as comic like to some, but comic readers will see the image as a mashup of characters. These characters have been brilliantly transformed to erase the branding and identity that has been painstakingly designed into the series.

Nobles's paintings brought to mind Jeff Koons series EasyFun-Ethereal although much more abstract. Koons does not abstract his imagery as much as crop and collage but it is the use of certain parts to create the new which is similar. Whether we've eaten a"Pop Tart" or not our generation will identitfy and the same goes for comics. These super human characters seem to have lost their extraordinary powers due to the lack of human muscle structure, but gained god like status.

Boing Being's New Book- BONG34 - GLÖMPX

Check out Boing Being's comic art anthology BONG34 - GLÖMPX.

BONG34 - GLÖMPX 10th issue of Glömp is a trip to 3-dimensional comics, last book edited by its founder Tommi Musturi. This is also +10-years-anniversary issue of the anthology - big bang, colourful hardcover baby that features 15 Finnish artists. This book is another half of the whole GlömpX project that we've been working on for past 12 months. The other half is an exhibition that will be touring around Europe 2009-2010. And if that's not enough, the book features a CD with exclusive soundtrack by Amon Düde, Nuslux, Kiiskinen, The Hoopo and Fricara Pacchu.

Featured artists: Sami Aho, Jan Anderzén, The Doozers, Roope Eronen, Jyrki Heikkinen, Reijo Kärkkäinen, Jarno Latva-Nikkola, Hanneriina Moisseinen, Tommi Musturi, Pauliina Mäkelä, Aapo Rapi, Anna Sailamaa, Katri Sipiläinen, Sonja Salomäki, Janne Tervamäki and Amanda Vähämäki.

Michael Deforge - King Trash

Michael Deforge makes comics and posters in Toronto, Ontario. You can view more of his artwork at KingTrash.com and read Michael's comics at Top Shelf.

Andy Rementer's - Techno Tuesday

The best way to start a tuesday. Andy Rementer's ‘Techno Tuesday’ began as an exercise in drawing comics and complaining. In fact it still is, after it’s inception in January of 2006. The comic, which is based on technology and the modern world, originally appeared on the Fabrica blog. And has since been published elsewhere online as well as in print. It has been featured in Adbusters magazine, Clark magazine, and exhibited at Lift in Switzerland, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

Some of my favourites from the archive.

Andy Rementer is a graphic designer/cartoonist based in Philadelphia. He received a bachelors degree from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2004. From 2005 to 2007 he worked for Fabrica, while living in a medieval town in northern Italy. Outside of his nine-to-five gig, Andy enjoys drawing in his sketchbook and making comics.

www.andyrementer.com

Starving Artist by Luke Ramsey

Brain Trust - Peter Thompson & Thesis

I'm excited to announce an upcoming book Anteism is working on with Peter Thompson and Thesis (James Kirkpatrick). The book is titled "Brain Trust" and will showcase the collaborative drawings Peter and James have been working on for years. The book will be available mid September, in an edition of only 350 copies. Each copy will contain a signed screen-print. Get em' while they last.

View some of the duo's collab work on Peter's Flikr Page * Check out Jame's Myspace page ( Thesis Sahib ) for a few good tunes. If your into Subtle you gotta take a listen.