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About Me

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 is also organizing comics parties, animation nights, comics workshops and exhibitions.
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
Next themes and deadlines:
- currently none!
kush! EVENTS
05/02/09 Opening of International Comics exhibition
15/11/08 Release of the first number of sh!
15/11/08 Baltic Comics and Illustration Exhibition
past events
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

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Books:

kush! 1 "true stories" (Cover: Anete Melece)

kush! 2 "love hurts" (Cover: Gefe)

kush! 3 "human animal" (Cover: Kolbeinn Karlsson)

kush! 4 "Food" (Cover: Davi Calil)

kush! 5 "Latvia" (Cover: Oskars Pavlovskis)

kush! 6 "Twilight Creatures" (Cover: Moki)

Heroes:

Artists featured in kush!:

Anna Anjos (*)
Afra HÃ¤ni (*)

Aivars BaranovsAllison Cole (*)
Anete Melece (*)
Anna Sommer (*)
BjÃ¶rn Melzer
Charles Burns (*)
Clara Roethe
Clement Baloup (*)
Davi Calil (*)
Dupuy & Berberian (*)
Evita Vasilijeva (*)
Frenks Hunguss
Flix (*)
Florent Ruppert & JÃ©rÃ´me Mulot (*)
Gefe (*)
Hanna P (*)
Ingrida Pichukane
Ilmars Shlapins
Itzik Rennert (*)
Jochen Schievink (*)
Jakob Klemencic
Jyrki Nissinen (*)
Kaspars Groshevs (*)
Kati Rickenbach (*)
::Kavi (*)
Knut Larsson (*)
Kolbeinn Karlsson (*)
KÃ¶nig LÃ¼. Q. (*)
Kristaps Auzenbergs
Lamelos (*)
Laura Kenins (*)
Liga Koklache
Maija Kursheva
Maija Liduma
Mairis Naglis
Marko Turunen (*)
Markus HÃ¤fliger (*)
Maris Bishofs
Mawil (*)
Max Andersson (*)
Menno Wittebrood
Moki (*)
Olive Booger (*)
Olivier Schrauwen
Oskars Pavlovskis
R. Kikuo Johnson (*)
Reinis Petersons (*)
Richard McGuire (*)
Roberts Galvins
Ruedi Schorno (*)
Ruta Birina
Sara Varon (*)
Simon Schnellmann (*)
TeER (*)
Thomas Ott
Tiemo Wydler
Tommi Musturi (*)
Toms Kleins
Zigmunds Lapsa (*)

My Blog

sh!

While kush! is making a break, we are happy to tell you, that there will be another publication by the kush! team: sh! Sh! Will continue the tradition of kush! showcasing some of the best of alterna...
Posted by kush! on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:25:00 PST

International Distribution

kush! can now be easily ordered from anywhere in the world. Our Lithuanian partner MOYTOY sells kush! and other beautiful things on the web. By the way, MOYTOY is an alternative art space for cosmopo...
Posted by kush! on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:12:00 PST

The biggest Comics Competition

Since years the International Comics Festival in Lucerne holds a Comics Competition. Some of the winners have become famous and where also published in kush! (for example Sara Varon, Tommi Mustur...
Posted by kush! on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:02:00 PST

Comics Competition

Our Hungarian friend Komikaze organizes an interesting comics competition, take a look at this and contribute: Win a Prize -- Draw a Comic!If you'd made comics before -- win 500¬!http://www.kom...
Posted by kush! on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:15:00 PST

the last kush! party

Come and celebrate with us the last kush! party It will be on Thursday the 18th of September in Dirty Deal Cafe (Spiikeros") We organised great Music (Zidruuns, Silards, DJ K...
Posted by kush! on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:49:00 PST

next kush!

The contents for the next kush! with the theme "childhood" are already ready for a while. Unfortunately we don't have the means yet to publish it just in time. We hope to find a solution soon, but&nbs...
Posted by kush! on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:38:00 PST

kush! in Latvian news

Today there is written 6 pages about kush! in the Saturday supplement "Ms" of the Latvian newspaper NRA. Nice article, you can read a short version here or better pick up a copy, because the article ...
Posted by kush! on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:30:00 PST

Kushmens is dead

Sad but true - but on the historic date of the 5th of august Kushmens died. &nbs.. .
Posted by kush! on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:32:00 PST

kush! in Lithuania

kush! recently visited Lithuania (Latvias southern neighbour) and met with some exponents of the Comics scene there. Lithuanians recently seem to be more interested about kush! than Latvians. So soon ...
Posted by kush! on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:44:00 PST

First Comics Workshop in Riga

This weekend was the first comics workshop in Riga. Numbers? Ok!: 30 Participants, 2 groups, 2 Tutors, 1 Henning Wagenbreth, 1 Markus Huber, 0 colours, 1 black, 1 white. Well but now some words: The L...
Posted by kush! on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:24:00 PST