Post by whitecomics on Dec 11, 2022 23:21:04 GMT
This was originally going to be a post on some existing thread, about my feelings on Koch's recent Stone Blue Sky. I'll get to that (I like it but didn't love it, still ruminating, pulled out some older work to see how it compared) but I found myself on a tangent digging into her publishing history so I thought I'd share. See if anyone has thoughts.
Koch's unique position with a foot in both the arts and comics worlds means she's been published by multiple publishers that, as best I can tell, have published few or no other comics. Then of course she's been published by many publishers familiar to folks on this forum. Including only the work Koch lists under the "Publications" section of her CV (so excluding early minis but also a few collections of drawings, etc) --
The Whale (2010) - Gaze Books
The Blonde Woman (2012) - originally self-published as one of the last Xeric recipients, then republished by Space Face Books
Field Studies (2012) - Floating World Comics
Impressions (2014) - Peradam Press ("a publishing group specializing in small-run artist books"; the first example of Koch finding her way to an artist book publisher that doesn't seem to have published any other comics even if some of their other books might fit a broader "images and words read in sequence" definition)
Heavenly Seas (2015) - Paris Review (an obscure magazine that Frank Santoro hates, sometimes publishes short fiction??)
After Nothing Comics (2016) - Koyama Press
Little Angels (2016) - MoMA PS1 GNY Series (I can find stunningly little information about this despite the MoMA PS1 association; here's a list of publications not updated since 2012, here's a mention of Koch's appearance in the 2015 Greater New York exhibition that was presumably tied to this publication)
Daughter (2017), Man Made Lake (2020) - Kus
La Espiral (2020) - AIA Ediciones and Ediciones Valientes (two Spanish comics publishers, presumably some kind of co-publication; I'm fairly certain this work, "The Spiral," hasn't appeared in English; AIA has published at least one other North American cartoonist, Tyler Landry, while Valientes has a more developed bibliography)
Stone Blue Sky (2021) - Grafixx (Belgian publisher, it seems comics focused though this is their first book-length publication)
Most cartoonists working for more than a few years have somewhat scattered publication histories but this strikes me as an especially diverse and interesting one.
Koch's unique position with a foot in both the arts and comics worlds means she's been published by multiple publishers that, as best I can tell, have published few or no other comics. Then of course she's been published by many publishers familiar to folks on this forum. Including only the work Koch lists under the "Publications" section of her CV (so excluding early minis but also a few collections of drawings, etc) --
The Whale (2010) - Gaze Books
The Blonde Woman (2012) - originally self-published as one of the last Xeric recipients, then republished by Space Face Books
Field Studies (2012) - Floating World Comics
Impressions (2014) - Peradam Press ("a publishing group specializing in small-run artist books"; the first example of Koch finding her way to an artist book publisher that doesn't seem to have published any other comics even if some of their other books might fit a broader "images and words read in sequence" definition)
Heavenly Seas (2015) - Paris Review (an obscure magazine that Frank Santoro hates, sometimes publishes short fiction??)
After Nothing Comics (2016) - Koyama Press
Little Angels (2016) - MoMA PS1 GNY Series (I can find stunningly little information about this despite the MoMA PS1 association; here's a list of publications not updated since 2012, here's a mention of Koch's appearance in the 2015 Greater New York exhibition that was presumably tied to this publication)
Daughter (2017), Man Made Lake (2020) - Kus
La Espiral (2020) - AIA Ediciones and Ediciones Valientes (two Spanish comics publishers, presumably some kind of co-publication; I'm fairly certain this work, "The Spiral," hasn't appeared in English; AIA has published at least one other North American cartoonist, Tyler Landry, while Valientes has a more developed bibliography)
Stone Blue Sky (2021) - Grafixx (Belgian publisher, it seems comics focused though this is their first book-length publication)
Most cartoonists working for more than a few years have somewhat scattered publication histories but this strikes me as an especially diverse and interesting one.