š! #26 dADa

š! #26

by Kuš! (Editor), Zane Zlemeša, A. Burkholder

Cover: Zane Zlemeša (Latvia). Contributors: A. Burkholder (USA), Brie Moreno (Canada), Cátia Serrão (Portugal), Daniel Lima (Angola), Dāvis Ozols (Latvia), Dunja Janković (Croatia), Dylan Jones (USA), Ernests Kļaviņš (Latvia), Jaakko Pallasvuo (Finland), José Ja Ja Ja (Spain), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), Līva Kandevica (Latvia), Maija Kurševa (Latvia), Marc Bell (Canada), Mārtiņš Zutis (Latvia), Olaf Ladousse (Spain), Roman Muradov (Russia), Saehan Park (South Korea), Sammy Stein (France), Vincent Fritz (Germany) and Zane Zlemeša (Latvia). Introduction by: Agathe Mareuge (France).

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation

Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, high quality and environmentally friendly Munken paper.

Genres: Comics

164 pages, Unknown Binding

First published October 1, 2016

About the author

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. The aims of kuš! are to popularize comics in a country where this medium is practically non-existent and promoting Latvian comics abroad.

kuš! doesn't just publish comics on paper, but also organizes exhibitions, workshops, comics jams and other comics related events besides traveling to international festivals to spread the Latvian comics fever.

Reviews

[Jesús · Rating 3 out of 5]

I generally enjoy these little Latvian anthologies. This one is decent, but a few too many cartoonists lean too heavily into the “Dada” theme.

I’m probably not the best audience, though, since I write and teach about modernist art movements and their legacies. From my perspective, comics are already an ideal Dada artifact without having to reorient or reimagine them in any way. There are good reasons why the early 20th century Dadaists were into comics. There’s just no need to make comics seem more Dada-like.

Nevertheless, I can say nothing bad about the work that the editors at kuš! produce and bring together. These anthologies are always worth your time.

[André Habet · Rating 4 out of 5]

amazing, weird comics

[Jon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rig blar tyew! Esstitenually.