But the townsfolk are welching on their deal and their expanding border is infringing his mind expansion making things come to a head in this magical realist noir. They had an agreement: He would provide them with his strange fruit and they would leave him to his jungle home. Zacchilli’s sprawling, wild and woolly, romance, adventure epic RAV was published in two collections by Youth in Decline.Ħ.5 x 9”, 288 pages, full colour, trade paperĪ potent pineapple dealing hermit’s transcendental quest is disrupted by the encroaching townspeople he supplies. She is a massage therapist and a purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. MICKEY ZACCHILLI was born in 1983 and lives in Providence, RI. Mickey Zacchilli blends Starfleet with Degrassi to make a classroom saga that recalls manga, Sunday funnies and composition book epics scrawled while ignoring the periodic table. Surviving school is tough now imagine peer pressure and midterms while hurtling through the vacuum of space. His one-person anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial success, having been nominated for every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner Awards.Ĭlassroom crushes, school plays, gym class, all-knowing Grandfather Computer, maintenance guy scouring planets for resources, you know, typical school stuff. MICHAEL DEFORGE lives and works in Toronto, ON as a cartoonist and commercial illustrator. Michael DeForge presents the mid-career crisis of a merry prankster in his singular style that blurs the banal with the absurd. Will her next act of delinquency restore her legacy?Ī major star of minor crime struggles for delinquency relevancy as she ages out of the delinquent scene she pioneered. We’ll find a new all-ages title in comics-inspired picture book Evie and the Truth About Witches and Britt Wilson brings us Ghost Queen as the follow up to Cat Dad, King of the Goblins.Īll this and more is included in Koyama’s Fall 2018 catalog, which you’ll find in full below:Ħ.5 x 9”, 160 pages, full colour, paper over board Keiler Roberts’ follow up to Sunburning, Chlorine Gardens portrays her life in a “brutally honest and relatable way”. Nathan Gelgud makes his debut with House in the Jungle. Mickey Zacchilli explores the “galactic melodramas of middle schoolers” in Space Academy 123. Publisher Koyama Presshave released a listing for their complete Fall 2018 line-up and it’s rather expansive and superb.Ī new work by Michael DeForge will chronicle the world’s greatest JD in Brat.

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