š! #59 'Flowers', released 27 June 2026

kuš! (speak koosh!) is a comic art publisher from Latvia founded in Riga in 2007. It is most wellknown for its signature pocket-sized anthologies and its mini-kuš! series. The aims of kuš! are to popularize comics in a country where this medium is practically non-existent and to promoteLatvian comics abroad.

For this title Julia transformed work from her latest solo exhibition Velvetteskin into a love poem inspired by etudes written by Anna Vilīte. A love poem to flowers, to night-time, to lovers, to dreaming, to bats, to open windows…

Cover: Julia Sinka (Latvia) Contributors: Ainārs Kamoliņš (Latvia), Apolonija Lučić (Croatia), covrig (Romania), Elzė Milašiūtė (Lithuania), etchingroom1 (Ukraine), Ingrīda Pičukāne (Latvia), Julia Sinka / Anna Vilīte (Latvia), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), Malwine Stauss (Germany), Mark Antonius Puhkan (Estonia), Marynka Dovhanych (Ukraine), Noemi Vola (Italy), Rebeka Lukošus (Latvia), Richard Hronský (Slovakia), Ula Rugevičiūtė Rugytė (Lithuania), Viktorija Semjonova (Latvia), Vivianna Maria Stanislavska (Latvia), Zsófia Rumi (Hungary).

Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, printed on FSC certified Munken paper in Latvia

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation

Reviews: Ilustratie Ambassade, FANzine Live

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