Budget: A portion of $4,300.00 marketing and publicity budget
Galleys: PDF galleys are available.
National Advertising: Prominent, year-round advertising in The
Comics Reporter, one of the most visited comics-focused
websites.
National Print/Online Media Campaign: We work tirelessly to market
and promote our titles; we have a large media and opinion maker
contact list, to which we send our press releases and select review
copies. We also have a smaller selection of reviewers who receive
hard copies of our titles. This has resulted in reviews, interviews
and coverage in a variety of media outlets including Avoid the
Future, Boing Boing, Comic Book Resources, The Comics Beat, The
Comics Journal, The Comics Reporter, Laughing Squid, Newsarama,
Paste Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Quill and Quire, Squidface and
the Meddler, The New York Times, VICE Magazine, and many more.
Online/Social Media Campaign: We have a strong presence on the
internet with our recently redesigned website (koyamapress.com with
over 2,000 unique visits per month), Facebook
(facebook.com/KoyamaPress with over 2,700 likes), Twitter
(@AnnieKoyama with over 5,300 followers), Flickr
(flickr.com/photos/koyamapress), and Tumblr
(koyamapress.tumblr.com/ with over 1,000 followers) pages.
Promotion on the Author's Website: Michael DeForge has a dedicated
online following demonstrated by his Tumblr (kingtrash.tumblr.com/
with over 25,900 followers), Twitter (@michael_deforge with over
4,300 followers), and Flickr (flickr.com/photos/michaeldeforge/).
DeForge has several online comics serialized through his website
and through popular online comics anthologies whatthingsdo.com and
studygroupcomics.com.
General Tour Info: Koyama Press and Michael DeForge will be
launching A Body Beneath in May 2014 at the Toronto Comics Arts
Festival (TCAF) a week long celebration of comics and graphic
novels and their creators, which culminates in a two-day exhibition
and vendor fair featuring hundreds of comics creators from around
the world. DeForge will be available to sign and draw in books
throughout the show. DeForge will also be traveling to Chicago
Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) in June 2014. CAKE is a weekend-long
celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago's rich
legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics' most
talented artists - past, present and future.
Publicity and Promotion in Conjunction with the Author's Speaking
Engagements: Koyama Press has a number of branded items including
tote bags, notebooks, buttons, postcards, stickers, and activity
books that accompany artists at shows and events. These include
items utilizing art from the book itself.
Michael DeForge was born in 1987 in Ottawa, Ontario. He currently lives and works in Toronto as a cartoonist, commercial illustrator, and as a designer for the hit Cartoon Network program Adventure Time. Past illustration clients include The Believer, Vice, New York Times Magazine, and The Walrus. His one-person anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial success and is published by Koyama Press. Lose #1 won in the Best Emerging Talent category at the 2010 Doug Wright Awards, and Lose #3 won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic. Lose #4 was released in Spring 2012, and was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue (or One-Shot). The fifth installment was released in Spring 2013. His web comic strip Ant Comic was serialized weekly and will be collected into a graphic novel by Drawn and Quarterly upon its completion. DeForge’s work blends an encyclopedic knowledge of cartooning with a range of influences that include Jack Kirby, Eduardo Munoz Bachs, Mark Newgarden, and Hideshi Hino.
Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series
Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist
Canadian artist DeForge’s anthology series is a showcase for his
warped imaginings and offbeat, genre-bending cartoons.” Matt
White, Publishers Weekly
Stories about body horror, S&M, Canada; it's easy to call
Michael DeForge the David Cronenberg of comics. But more
specifically, I'd call him the noise rock’ of the industry, and it
helps that he's in a noise rock band.” GeekRex
DeForge’s comic universe reflects the dark corners of our real
one, but sensitive and hopeful storyteller that he is he hasn’t
forgotten about the exuberance, wonder and happiness there either.”
Chris Hampton, The Toronto Star
Like folk tales, they [the stories in A Body Beneath] fill us with
dread and take terrible but expected turns. This sort of
viscera-level reaction is precisely DeForge’s greatest strength,
and it has clearly been present from the beginning of his career.”
Hillary Brown, Paste
One of the most exciting and unpredictable cartoonists working in
comics, Michael DeForge has a unique perspective that juggles
humor, tragedy, whimsy and horror to create unforgettable stories.”
Oliver Sava, Los Angeles Times
Like folk tales, they [DeForge’s stories] fill us with dread and
take terrible but expected turns. This sort of viscera-level
reaction is precisely DeForge’s greatest strength, and it has
clearly been present from the beginning of his career.” Hillary
Brown, Paste
Drawn over four years, the comics show the young artist growing
more assured and the artwork becoming more confident without losing
its bizarre simplicity
Fans who discovered DeForge with Ant Colony
will not be disappointed by what preceded it.” Gordon Flagg,
Booklist
Truly, if anything can be said about DeForge’s work, it is that
it’s better when experienced than it is to hear about it, so for
god’s sake, go and pick up this book right now.” Greg Mannix, End
of the Universe
DeForge is the next-generation Ware. In Lose, he explores artistic
experimentations that remain readable because of his sharp sense of
humor and surprising storytelling. As a result, he has become an
influential nexus in an array of talented young comic creators who
are pushing beyond the observational sensibilities of ’90s and
early ’00s era indie comics while moving into a fusion of fantasy,
horror, auto-bio, surrealism, and pornography.” Rich Barrett,
mental_floss magazine
Though no cartoonist is without recognizable precursors, he
[DeForge] is one the most original creators of this new century,
with an instantly identifiable approach to cartooning. I don’t
think I could name another young cartoonist’ whose work is always
so visually forceful and emotionally engaged. And I mean always.”
Ken Parille, The Comics Journal
"Collected between these covers are some of the best avant-garde
comics drawn in the last ...well, ever. Top-of-the-heap great
cartoonists emerge once in a generation. DeForge is today's one.
Striking, funny, disturbing, beautiful, original." Seth, Author of
Palookaville
"If you aren't reading Michael DeForge, I don't know what you're
doing with your life." Timothy Callahan, Comic Book Resources
DeForge’s world is not for the squeamish. But it is one whose
grotesqueries increasingly mirror, rather than distort, the mundane
world with which we think we are familiar.” Sean Rogers, The
Globe and Mail
Prolific young Canadian-born avant-garde artist DeForge has become
one of his generation’s most admired cartoonists, and this is his
first sizable collection
While often willfully unsettling,
DeForge’s work resonates on many levels.” Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
"Everything and everyone in his [DeForge's] drawings is dripping,
bubbling and developing unsightly growths. He warps and dents the
assured, geometrical forms of vintage newspaper strips and new
wave-era graphics into oddly adorable horrors; his stories are
prone to whiplash formal shifts.” Douglas Wolk, The New York
Times
"I just picked up Michael DeForge’s Lose #4 and it rules, like all
of his comics. I say it all the time, DeForge is one of the best
out there these days. Pick up any issue of Lose, pick them all up."
Kate Beaton author of Hark! A Vagrant (Drawn & Quarterly,
2011)
Michael DeForge’s one-man anthology is the gateway to a
gob-dropping world.” Jesse Locke, Weird Canada
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