#anti-gone

[koyamapress]

Comics Workbook reviews the “intense” Anti-Gone by Connor Willumsen. “With this book Connor has really made the reader—with the dialogue, with the cartooning, with the sequencing—free to explore this space, and it’s just amazing to read.” — Sam Ombiri, Comics Workbook Check out the whole review here!

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CRAIG’S CATALOG PICKS!

OTHER MINDS

KILL ALL NORMIES

AUTOMATA

ANTI-GONE

COMICS FOR A STRANGE WORLD

[koyamapress]

Best of luck to Connor Willumsen and his book Anti-Gone which is nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels. The award ceremonies go down tonight at 7PM Pacific! 

[koyamapress]

Connor Willumsen and cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw sit down to discuss Willumsen’s recently released Anti-Gone. “Connor Willumsen’s first graphic novel, Anti-Gone, beautifully follows a couple who drift on a small boat and go see a movie on drugs. It felt to me a bit like a Tao Lin novel in that it focuses on young people who spend their time shopping for clothes and entertainment/drugs.” — Dash Shaw, The Comics Journal

Check out the whole interview here!

[koyamapress]

The A.V. Club has selected three Koyama Press titles, Jesse Jacobs’ Crawl Space, Connor Willumsen’s Anti-Gone and Hannah K. Lee’s Language Barrier, for their best comics of 2017 list!

On Crawl Space

“The challenges of adolescence are interpreted through Jacobs’ surreal sensibility, and he has an insightful, bittersweet perspective of teenage solitude and embracing what sets you apart rather than trying to fit in. This message is inspiring but it’s also a little sad, acknowledging the inevitable loneliness of an isolated life.” — Oliver Sava, The A.V. Club

On Anti-Gone

“With beautiful line art, Willumsen tells one of the oddest stories of the year, but also one of the most visually compelling and formally striking.” — Shea Hennum, The A.V. Club

On Language Barrier

“Beautifully rendered in a variety of aesthetics, Lee delivered a book best experienced across a number of brief-but-satisfying readings.” — Shea Hennum, The A.V. Club

Check out the whole list here!

[koyamapress]

London-based retailer Gosh! Comics has selected its best comics of 2017 and Connor Willumsen’s Anti-Gone makes the list! “Illustrated with a virtuoso command of pose and movement, with imaginative and surreal flourishes throughout, Anti-Gone is one of the year's most impressive releases.” — Gosh! Comics

Check out the whole list here!

[koyamapress]

Quill & Quire approached Canadian booksellers to weigh in on their favourite books of 2017 The Beguiling Books & Art’s Peter Birkemoe selects Connor Willumsen’s Anti-Gone. “You get an odd combination of super contemporary, minimalist, and economical cartooning – the sort of artistic sensibility you expect from a young author, but with a maturity of voice suggesting a master playwright or screenwriter.” — Peter Birkemoe, Quill & Quire

Check out the whole list here! Most excellent book trailer directed by Fatine-Violette Sabiri.

[koyamapress]

Just Indie Comics selects 10 debut books from SPX 2017 that they are excited about and Connor Willumsen’s Anti-Gone and Noel Freibert’s Old Ground make the list! Check the whole list here!