kush! is the first Latvian comics magazine. Every issue has another theme and comics in various styles. It features comics from international comics artists as well as from Latvian artists. kush! is not only a magazine but also organizing comics parties, animation movie nights, comics workshops and exhibitions.
If you want one of our magazines, you can get it for 5.50 Euros (overseas 7.50 USD) inclusive postage and pay it with PAYPAL, just write to kushmens(at)gmail.com and we discuss the details.
kush!'s aim is to popularize comics in Latvia and to promote Latvian comics artists abroad.
Official homepage (mainly Latvian):
www.komikss.lv
Up to summer 2008 six issues were out of which the first two were distributed for free in Riga. From the third issue on kush! was thicker, coming out every second month and was for sale in kiosks all around Lavia. All the issues of kush! can be bought in the Gallerija "Istaba" in Riga or you can order it here: www.moytoy.eu
We have an exhibition in Berlin:
This is the poster of our exhibition in Riga in February 2009:
Together with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art we organized the first International Comics Exhibition in Riga. Presented artists were: Anete Melece, Anke Feuchtenberger, Atak, Florent Ruppert & Jerome Mulot, Ingrida Picukane, Katja Tukiainen, Kolbeinn Karlsson, Matti Hagelberg, Maija Kurseva, Moki, Nicolas Robel, the Lamelos and Stripburger. More info on www.lcca.lv
Next themes and deadlines of sh!: (format A6, color, max 8 pages per artist)
- "Lost in the City" deadline: 01.06.09
kush! EVENTS
24/04/09 kush! exhibition in Berlin
06/03/09-14/03/09 sh! is on display at the WE LOVE MAGAZINE LIBRARY in Tokio link
07/02/09-08/03/09 TELL ME MORE Comics Exhibition link
past events
07/02/09 Opening of International Comics Exhibition in Riga
20/01/09 Release of the third number of sh!
20/01/09 Release of the second number of sh!
15/11/08 Release of the first number of sh!
15/11/08 Baltic Comics and Illustration Exhibition in Tasty Shop. Opening at 19.00. 15 artists from the Baltics!
27/9-29/9/08 kush! visits the St.Petersburg Comics Festival
18/09/08 kushmens goodbye party in Dirty Deal Cafe
04/07/08 kush! #6 (strange creatures) is out
14-15/06/08 Comics workshop with Henning Wagenbreth and Markus Huber organized in cooperation with LMC
10/05/08 Comics Jam with Koenig Lue.Q. in IPI, Fanzine creation
08/05/08 Koenig Lue.Q. Party & Exhibition in Lasite
14/04/08 kush! #5 (Latvia) is out
22/02/08 kush! #4 Party in META KAFE
19/01/08 kush! animation movie night in Cesis
15/12/07 kush! animation movie night in studentu klubs
