Promotional Information

A portion of $4300.00 marketing and publicity budget
We work tirelessly to market and promote our titles; we have a large media and opinion maker contact list, to which we send our press releases and select review copies. We also have a smaller selection of reviewers who receive hard copies of our titles. This has resulted in reviews, interviews and coverage in a variety of media outlets including Avoid the Future, Boing Boing, Comic Book Resources, The Comics Beat, The Comics Journal, The Comics Reporter, Laughing Squid, Newsarama, Paste Magazine,Quill and Quire, Squidface and the Meddler, VICE Magazine, and many more. We regularly participate in book launches, signings and tours, as well as panel appearances at conventions and industry events.
Advertising in The Comics Reporter, one of the most visited comics-focussed websites, and the popular, Canadian-centric comics website Sequential; in print copies of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival Program and other festival programs and promotional materials; in the anthologies Smoke Signals, Secret Prison and Off Life; and in the magazine UPPERCASE.
Promotion on the author's website (list web address)
We have a strong presence on the internet with our recently redesigned website, Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/KoyamaPress with over 2,200 likes), Twitter (@AnnieKoyama with over 4,300 followers), Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/koyamapress), Tumblr (http://koyamapress.tumblr.com/), various podcasts, and the websites and social media sites of our artists (Jane Mai http://www.janemai.co/, http://janemai.tumblr.com/, and @janemai_) and distributors including Last Gasp (http://www.lastgasp.com/, http://www.facebook.com/lastgasp and @lastgaspbooks), Secret Acres (http://secretacres.com/ and @secretacres), Tony Shenton (http://shenton4sales.tumblr.com/), and Spit and a Half (http://spitandahalf.blogspot.ca/ and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spit-and-a-Half/102055949886932).
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements
Koyama Press also has number of branded items including tote bags, notebooks, buttons, postcards, stickers, and activity books that accompany artists at shows and events.

About the Author

Jane Mai is a freelance illustrator and comic artist from Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and self-published zines. Sunday in the Park with Boys is her first published book of autobiographical fiction comics.

Reviews

"Tackling anxieties in her twenties, I read this while dealing with some anxiety of my own in my twenties." -- Ardo Omer, Book Riot "Jane Mai is an artist specializing in food, eye patches, and bugs. Her work stands at the intersection of cute and disturbing." -- Ivan Hernandez, Boing Boing "A expectation-defying meditation that turns a gloomy, self-pitying confessional into ... well, a gloomy, self-pitying confessional, but one that presents depression as a failure of self that can be turned around...It's both darkly evocative and strangely cute, and it's on this that the book's success balances, and does so admirably." -- John Seven, Reverse Direction "Mai's art is singular and original, yet carries echoes of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, with its dreamy contrast of darkness, surrealism, and childlike whimsy." -- Terell Paris, IndieReader "Rather than attempt some sort of overall, heavily detailed account of her dark days, she opts instead to focus on individual moments, giving the comic a poetic, impressionistic lilt I appreciated. Yeah, it's a "sad" comic, but it's far from a depressing read." -- Chris Mautner, Comic Book Resources Sunday in the Park with Boys is one of the winners of the inaugural, 2013 MoCCA (The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) Awards of Excellence as chosen by by judges Karen Berger, Gary Groth, Nora Krug, David Mazzucchelli, and Paul Pope. "This book is a great find for anyone that has dealt with some of the issues addressed in this book, and even those who haven't. The quiet resignation throughout most of the story lends itself to being a very real account of how these dark emotions manifested themselves for the author. Nothing is contrived or trite, just an honest portrayal of a real girl with real feelings." -- Lindsey Morris, Girls Gone Geek "This is a harrowing, unsparing account of one young woman's experience with anxiety, depression and sheer existential terror [...] The book ends on a hopeful note that is as much self-suggestion as it is an honest conclusion for this stunning piece of someone trying to get better in public through art." - Rob Clough, High-Low "Sunday in the Park with Boys conveys feelings that are hard to pinpoint when you're under deep depression, but it never feels like it's forcing you into pitying the author in any way. I believe Mai just wants you to understand." -- Kevin Cortez, Drawn Words "It's [Sunday in the Park with Boys] by no means an easy read, often harrowing, but Mai is a strong cartoonist, pinpointing the way in which her demon has taken over her: the dread of these episodes, the waiting, the compliance, and the quiet, desperate, frustration of the situation." -- Zainab Akhtar, Forbidden Planet International Blog "Sunday in the Park with Boys is about what depression feels like from the inside, although it never explicitly says so. Instead, Mai represents what David Foster Wallace called "the bad thing" as a centipede-like creature, growing and devouring, slithering and embracing her protagonist. It's almost unbearable to read and yet the book's minimalism and Mai's smart sense of pacing (some pages have many panels, some only one or two) contributes to the effectiveness of her story." - Hillary Brown, Paste Magazine "The first time I read the comic, I found it depressing; on rereading I began to see how the character comes to grips with what is going on in her mind to transcend it and that the story expresses a sort of universality of lonesome youth." - James Romberger, has drawn graphic novels for Vertigo/DC, including Seven Miles a Second, with David Wojnarowicz and Marguerite Van Cook "Mai's black and white illustrations do a great job accompanying the vibe of the story. The dialogue, while a bit hard to digest at times, also holds strong in Sunday in the Park with Boys, leaving behind an impressive memoir and solid read, especially for the comic book medium." - Kevin Cortez, Drawn Words