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Marie Jacotey’s BFF is a short story of love and friendship inviting us to follow the intertwined paths of the three characters, Amy, Rob and Stan.
Format: A6, 28 pages, saddle stitch binding, full-color, English
Straight outta Latvia, it's the latest issue of S!, the pint-size powerhouse Baltic Comics Magazine. This time around the focus is fashion. It makes sense that there would be a natural affinity between comics and fashion, and the works on display here in this collection bear that out; it is one of the most consistently solid volumes yet produced by Biedreba Grafiskie Staski. It presents fashion from a full specturm of angles, from it's effects on individuals and their self-perception and others' perception of them (most effectively by Marie Jacotey); form commodity fetishism (Anna DeFlorian), the view from the corporate suites (quite perceptively by Joseph P Kelly), and from many other points of view as well. As always, this is an international anthology with a special focus on works from the Baltics.
Here's the contributor list;
Cover: Marie Jacotey (France) Contributors: Anna Deflorian (Italy), Dace Sieti?a (Latvia), D?vis Ozols (Latvia), Hetamoé (Portugal), Ingr?da Pi?uk?ne (Latvia), Joseph P Kelly (UK), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), Laura Callaghan (Ireland), Léo Quievreux (France), Liisa Kruusmägi (Estonia), Marie Jacotey (France), M?rti?š Zutis (Latvia), Oskars Pavlovskis (Latvia), Otaki (South Korea), Roman Muradov (Russia), Sharmila Banerjee (Germany), Tamia Baudouin (France) and Tin Can Forest (Canada).
Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation
Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, high quality and environmentally friendly Munken paper.
The Visitors Issue
Cover: Aisha Franz (Germany) Contributors: Aisha Franz (Germany), Anna Sailamaa (Finland), Emelie Ostergren (Sweden), Ines Estrada (Mexico), Joao Sobral (Portugal), Jyrki Nissinen (Finland), Kerija Arne (Latvia), Konig Lu. Q. (Switzerland), Leo Quievreux (France), Liana Mihailova (Latvia), Liva Piterane (Latvia), Marie Jacotey (France), Matti Hagelberg (Finland), Mikkel Sommer (Denmark), Nicolas Zouliamis (Belgium), Olive Booger (France), Powerpaola (Ecuador), Renata Gasiorowska (Poland), Tetsu Kayama (Japan), Titas Antanas Vilkaitis (Lithuania), Vivianna Maria Stanislavska (Latvia)
Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, high quality and environmentally friendly Munken paper.
