Ish is a magazine size, 56 page softcover collecting three longish stories in black and white and muted, flat color on nice off-white stock.  We've had it in the shop for awhile, and realized we should share it with our online customers, as it is filled with graphically inventive, experimental comics of the kind that you don't see every day.  De Souza has clearly spent some time studying early modernist painters – most notably, Picasso – and here he strives to adapt some of their then – and, for comics, still – novel approaches to visual representation of psychological states and philosophical perspectives into this work, making for a stimulating and challenging reading experience.  One that also serves to reveal a small patch of the untapped potential inherent in the comics medium, where the possibilities for combining image and text in the service of personal expression remain practically endless...

Ex-Mag is back!  And this fifth volume is the biggest yet, running 300 pages.  Same high quality Latvian printing this time in scarlet and black as befits this issues theme:  Vampires!  And, the variety of approaches to the theme is as far ranging as ever, running the gamut from simplfied & cartoony to detailed and realistic with many varied approaches in between.

We've posted a bunch of cool spreads from this issue of Ex-Mag, along with come nice ones frrom World Heist and Jane MaI's Soft, HERE.

Check out PEOW's page on this issue to get an idea of what's in store, HERE.