House of the Black Spot will be the last Double+ Adventure under the Koyama Press banner and boy is it a doozy! Mystery, intrigue, ghosts, real estate! Do not miss this one, and believe us, the adventure will continue! 

The A.V. Club have selected their most anticipated comics of 2019 and Emily Carroll’s flesh-and-bone-chilling When I Arrived at the Castle makes the list!

“Emily Carroll is one of the modern masters of comic-book horror, telling scary stories that are as gorgeous as they are haunting.” — Oliver Sava, The A.V. Club

Check out all of the anticipated titles here!

It’s almost lunch time so here is a sneak peak at Chris Kuzma’s absolutely nuts in all the right ways Lunch Quest! 

Broken Frontier reviews Chlorine Gardens by Keiler Roberts, “one of the finest slice-of-life practitioners in comics”!

“Roberts’ clear, uncomplicated visuals always have an expressive clarity and the most telling of visual characterization, and Chlorine Gardens is another collection of incisive short strips from one of the finest autobio practitioners working in the medium.” — Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier 

Check out the full review here!

PopMatters reviews Nathan Gelgud’s perception bending A House in the Jungle.

“Gelgud’s most intriguing oddities occur at a deeper meta-level. A House in the Jungle isn’t just a story—it’s a comics story exploring the comics form that contains it.” — Chris Gavaler, PopMatters

Read the whole review here!

The Heavy Feather Review reviews Mickey Zacchilli’s teenage space opera Space Academy 123.

“Space Academy 123 is an abundant story full of likeable characters, simple-but-expressive imagery, and unique storytelling.” — Trey Brown, Heavy Feather Review

Read the whole review here!

The writer and critic Davey Davis writes about books they read while recovering from top surgery and they include Michael DeForge’s Dressing.

“As they transform and lose their language and memories of earth, Deforge’s illustrations squiggle and ooze and run. We feel a calm in the face of inevitability, but that doesn’t make the change any less disorienting or sad.” — Davey Davis, Lit Hub

Read the whole article here.

Ryan C’s Four Color Apocalypse reviews our promotional copy, but more importantly, Mickey Zacchilli’s slice of spacefaring fun, Space Academy 123.

“[I]n terms of sheer hyper-kinetic imagination, heartfelt humor, and good, old-fashioned fun (remember that?), Space Academy 123 is tough to beat.” — Ryan Carey, Four Color Apocalypse

Read the entire review right here!

PopMatters reviews Patrick Kyle’s “graphic fiction meta-garden” Roaming Foliage.

“I’ve literally never read anything like it. Explaining why that’s such a wonderful thing—not just for Kyle but for comics generally—will take some explaining.” — Chris Gavaler, PopMatters

Read the whole review here!

CBC Parents’ Erik Missio has wonderful guide to reading comics to kids that includes the work of John Martz, namely A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories and Evie and the Truth About Witches. Read the whole article here!