Peow Studio (2012-2022)

[mamalips]

Peow publishers are closing their doors in about 24 hours so if you want to get anything from them, now is the last chance. Depending where you are in the world, they have a list on their website of stockists. Gosh Comics have a lot of stock when I visited about two weeks ago.

I've been a big fan of their work since I discovered them in 2015. Earlier work was riso printed and more like a zine size but they evolved naturally to big books (who hasn't heard of A Frog in the Fall?)

The production has always been incredible with print runs usually very low. I have maybe 12 or so Peow books and have been lucky to get a few harder to find ones like Pond Smelt and Soft (I'm a big Jane Mai reader). Their final book, Last Chance to find Duke sold out very quickly but if you're looking for a copy, the shop I work at has maybe 3 copies left, we were fortunate enough to order the final copies. Shoot me a DM if you want but just a heads up, the book plus overseas shipping from the UK is not cheap.

Anyway, I thought it would be nice to talk here about your favourite Peow books and what you like about their style.

I just finished "Last Chance.." and "On Tour" which were both really strong and better than I was initially expecting. P.E.O.W Book 1 is one of my all time favourites, it sums up a lot of the playfulness of Peow for me.


Here's a fanzine with several contributors that was given to Peow crew at their final show (pictures at @aprilangelica on IG)
Bye Peow free zine
sunmiflowers.itch.io/bye-peow

A full bibliography of their 62 (?) books as a fun download archive made by Peow boss:
t.co/E6M7jzPNAy

[mikesheawright]

Love PEOW, not everything they published was my thing but that's sort of how a publisher should be? Always interested in what they were doing, top-notch print quality and design, attention to detail A+ five stars. I look at the Guillaum Singelin JUNKY book all the time. Stages of Rot and the first Ex-Mag are faves as well. Always looked forward to browsing their minis at shows, I tabled next to them a couple times which I thought was going to ruin my show but they were great to chat with and it all worked out fine. Nice folks.

RIPeow

[manoopuesta]

I discovered PEOW through a friend who is a true fan of their work and we visited their stand in our yearly visit to the local comic fest. Like mama says, the production quality has always been really good and that I remember from the very first time I saw their comics. Not completely up to my alley in the themes or styles of many of the comics they publish, but I really like especially the first comics I bought directly from them: Jane Mai's Soft, and Patrick Crotty's A Goth and Devil's Slice of Life. And especially Disa Wallander's The Nature of Nature (for me this comic is a true gem. She published Becoming Horses with D&Q later on, and which I don't like so much. I think she shines in short stories best).

[justareed]

Peow started the same year I graduated college and really clicked with me while I was at that stage of my life.  It was a joy to encounter their high end riso work and specific curation at the same time I was discovering zines - and too see how their catalog expanded and evolved over the years.  They will be missed.

While looking on twitter for additional details about their closure I found a mention from their account in November that they were planning to keep their digital store open for maybe a month after their official 12/31 closure.  The digital store is missing a lot from their past catalog but does contain recent comics that have sold out and even some bonus material here and there for previous releases (bundled or available separately).  peow.gumroad.com