Poet Sergej Timofejev:  Черное варенье  / Black Jam
Artist: Ingrīda Pičukāne

š! #18 'Poetry', released on September 22nd, 2014
See more at: http://www.komikss.lv/

This issue presents you a wide range of international poetry comics. Some of the contributions are visual adaptations of existing poems, others are collaborative efforts between poets and comic artists, but mostly they genuinely are poems as comics or comics as poems. As you will discover, there are countless ways of interaction for the two mediums to merge into a new poetic visual art form.

Cover: Dāvis Ozols (Latvia) 
Contributors: Anete Melece / Inga Gaile, Anna Vaivare / Semyon Khanin, Dāvis Ozols / Ingmāra Balode, Ingrīda Pičukāne / Sergej Timofejev, Klāvs Loris / Anna Foma, Lote Vilma Vītiņa / Kārlis Vērdiņš, Mārtiņš Zutis / Arvis Viguls, Rūta Briede / Jānis Rokpelnis from Latvia, and Alexander Rothman (USA), Andrej Štular (Slovenia), Dunja Janković (Croatia), Evie Cahir (Australia), Julie Doucet (Canada), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), L.L. de Mars (France), Mari Ahokoivu (Finland), Nicolas Zouliamis (Belgium), Patrick Kyle (Canada), Sam Alden (USA), Theo Ellsworth (USA), Tiina Lehikoinen (Finland) and Tommi Musturi (Finland).

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation
Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, English.
Get it:  Order it:  http://kushkomikss.ecrater.com/p/20486029/18-poetry. Available in selected shops in Riga (Galerija Istaba, Randoms, Muhamors and Dizaina drukas studijā TELPA) and around the world: http://www.komikss.lv/shop 

Черное Варенье  / Black Jam

Poet Anna Foma: untitled (Read by Henriks Eliass Zēgners)
Artist: Klāvs Loris

š! #18 'Poetry', released on September 22nd, 2014
See more at: http://www.komikss.lv/

This issue presents you a wide range of international poetry comics. Some of the contributions are visual adaptations of existing poems, others are collaborative efforts between poets and comic artists, but mostly they genuinely are poems as comics or comics as poems. As you will discover, there are countless ways of interaction for the two mediums to merge into a new poetic visual art form.

Cover: Dāvis Ozols (Latvia) 
Contributors: Anete Melece / Inga Gaile, Anna Vaivare / Semyon Khanin, Dāvis Ozols / Ingmāra Balode, Ingrīda Pičukāne / Sergej Timofejev, Klāvs Loris / Anna Foma, Lote Vilma Vītiņa / Kārlis Vērdiņš, Mārtiņš Zutis / Arvis Viguls, Rūta Briede / Jānis Rokpelnis from Latvia, and Alexander Rothman (USA), Andrej Štular (Slovenia), Dunja Janković (Croatia), Evie Cahir (Australia), Julie Doucet (Canada), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), L.L. de Mars (France), Mari Ahokoivu (Finland), Nicolas Zouliamis (Belgium), Patrick Kyle (Canada), Sam Alden (USA), Theo Ellsworth (USA), Tiina Lehikoinen (Finland) and Tommi Musturi (Finland).

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation
Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, English.
Get it:  Order it:  http://kushkomikss.ecrater.com/p/20486029/18-poetry. Available in selected shops in Riga (Galerija Istaba, Randoms, Muhamors and Dizaina drukas studijā TELPA) and around the world: http://www.komikss.lv/shop


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Poet Inga Gaile: Skaistais / The Beautiful
Artist: Anete Melece

š! #18 'Poetry', released on September 22nd, 2014
See more at: http://www.komikss.lv/

This issue presents you a wide range of international poetry comics. Some of the contributions are visual adaptations of existing poems, others are collaborative efforts between poets and comic artists, but mostly they genuinely are poems as comics or comics as poems. As you will discover, there are countless ways of interaction for the two mediums to merge into a new poetic visual art form.

Cover: Dāvis Ozols (Latvia) 
Contributors: Anete Melece / Inga Gaile, Anna Vaivare / Semyon Khanin, Dāvis Ozols / Ingmāra Balode, Ingrīda Pičukāne / Sergej Timofejev, Klāvs Loris / Anna Foma, Lote Vilma Vītiņa / Kārlis Vērdiņš, Mārtiņš Zutis / Arvis Viguls, Rūta Briede / Jānis Rokpelnis from Latvia, and Alexander Rothman (USA), Andrej Štular (Slovenia), Dunja Janković (Croatia), Evie Cahir (Australia), Julie Doucet (Canada), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), L.L. de Mars (France), Mari Ahokoivu (Finland), Nicolas Zouliamis (Belgium), Patrick Kyle (Canada), Sam Alden (USA), Theo Ellsworth (USA), Tiina Lehikoinen (Finland) and Tommi Musturi (Finland).

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation
Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, English.
Get it:  Order it:  http://kushkomikss.ecrater.com/p/20486029/18-poetry. Available in selected shops in Riga (Galerija Istaba, Randoms, Muhamors and Dizaina drukas studijā TELPA) and around the world: http://www.komikss.lv/shop


Skaistais / The Beautiful

Poet Arvis Viguls: Ķieģelis / The Brick
Artist: Mārtiņš Zutis 

š! #18 'Poetry', released on September 22nd, 2014
See more at: http://www.komikss.lv/

This issue presents you a wide range of international poetry comics. Some of the contributions are visual adaptations of existing poems, others are collaborative efforts between poets and comic artists, but mostly they genuinely are poems as comics or comics as poems. As you will discover, there are countless ways of interaction for the two mediums to merge into a new poetic visual art form.

Cover: Dāvis Ozols (Latvia) 
Contributors: Anete Melece / Inga Gaile, Anna Vaivare / Semyon Khanin, Dāvis Ozols / Ingmāra Balode, Ingrīda Pičukāne / Sergej Timofejev, Klāvs Loris / Anna Foma, Lote Vilma Vītiņa / Kārlis Vērdiņš, Mārtiņš Zutis / Arvis Viguls, Rūta Briede / Jānis Rokpelnis from Latvia, and Alexander Rothman (USA), Andrej Štular (Slovenia), Dunja Janković (Croatia), Evie Cahir (Australia), Julie Doucet (Canada), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), L.L. de Mars (France), Mari Ahokoivu (Finland), Nicolas Zouliamis (Belgium), Patrick Kyle (Canada), Sam Alden (USA), Theo Ellsworth (USA), Tiina Lehikoinen (Finland) and Tommi Musturi (Finland).

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation
Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, English.
Get it:  Order it:  http://kushkomikss.ecrater.com/p/20486029/18-poetry. Available in selected shops in Riga (Galerija Istaba, Randoms, Muhamors and Dizaina drukas studijā TELPA) and around the world: http://www.komikss.lv/shop


Ķieģelis / The Brick

kuš!
http://www.komikss.lv
kuš! (speak koosh!) is a comics art anthology from Latvia founded 2007 in Riga. Every issue contains comics from international and Latvian artists to a certain theme which changes every issue. 