The KOMA bookshop is here again!
New and well-known publishing houses and authors. You can look forward to books, games, clothes
and even stuffed animals!

Publishers and authors:
🍊 Ester Tajrychová (CZ)
Ester Tajrychová, the illustrator and member of SČUG Hollar. She studied at the Graphic Design and Illustration studio at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen. Here she met Kristina Fišerová, who supervised Esther's diploma thesis, which is followed by the book Nedělej.

🍉 Angry Albatross / Katarina Kratochvílová
Illustrator working in Prague. She focuses mainly on applied illustration, such as magazine covers or labels. In 2022, her original comic Used Kimono Store won the bronze prize in the Japan International Manga Award.

🍍 Kaya art / Karolína Bendová (CZ)
Illustrator and author of children's books. In the last year, she published two new books: the coloring book Květinový ateliér víly Violky (Fairy Violka's Flower Studio) and the fantasy fairy tale Vini a tajemství mechanických rostlin (Vini and the Secret of Mechanical Plants).

🍅 Aleš Slouka (CZ)
Mystifier, urban legend maker and comic book writer. His artwork is a kind of by-product. For him, it is an expression and a record of his own spiritual experience. In his work, he mainly deals with borderline transitional states of expanded consciousness.

🥥Neobara / Barbora Srp Žižková (CZ)
An illustrator and traveler who returned from a one-year trip to Southeast Asia and brought with her, in addition to many stories, new original illustrations and posters from her travels. In her work, she is mainly inspired by Asian culture and cultural anthropology.

🌶 Tomáš Lorenc (CZ)
Tomáš is a graduate of the FAVU performance studio in Brno. His interest is quite broad, from drawing to photography, video art, painting or graphics, to experiments with sound, which he combines with performance. In his artistic practice, he is based on the approaches of the conceptual and intuitive tradition. He is inspired by advertising, slogans, nonsense or a slip of the tongue.

🍒 Jan Macků and Enigmaboy612 (CZ)
Jan Macků and Jan Vaněk (Enigmaboy612) are classmates from Sutnarka (Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen). Together they studied at the Comics and Illustrations for Children studio and nowadays make a living from comics and advertising illustration and graphics. Their work is united by a unique style and a sense of humor.

🪱 Eva Jaroňová (CZ)
She exhibits her paintings and illustrations in galleries, publishes them in the form of experimental printing and also uses them to create textile design. Her subjects are full of existential distress and dark humor.

🪲 Blue Moon Handicraft (PL)
You wont know what to choose at this booth: resin frog clips, mushroom rugs, giant bugs, near-vintage corsets, original graphics and much more.

🗞 Nakladatelství Trystero (CZ)
Nakladatelství Trystero was founded in January 2015 as an independent publishing house focusing on high-quality American and European comic production, be it comic novels or strip anthologies. It focuses primarily on works that test the boundaries of existing narrative norms.

🧐 Monocle (SK)
Monokel is a young publishing house focused on picture books and comics, which brings young talents from the fields of illustration, book design, screenwriting and visual storytelling to the Slovak scene.

🗞 Centrala (PL)
A publishing house for readers who appreciate substantial and well-told stories. Centrala has three main publishing lines: Love (books and comics for children), Life (comics) and Death (art-books).

📜 Labyrint (CZ)
The Labyrint publishing house has been publishing non-commercial literature since 1992. Currently, it focuses mainly on illustrated books for children in the edition of Raketa and the magazine of the same name, comic books by contemporary Czech creators and art publications for adult readers.

🧸 Lebo Mädveď (SK)
Lebo Mädveď - educational games is the result of creativity and the need to create meaningful products for loved ones and children. Juraj, Erika and Paťo met while studying architecture at VŠVU in Bratislava. Together they create design games with educational overlap. All games are made by hand in Slovakia from local materials.

📖 Bylo nebylo
Bylo nebylo publishes books for children and adults, always carefully edited graphically, usually finished by hand. It also publishes author's books, reprints of Kateřina Černá's author's books, a series of pocket atlases for children and, last but not least, offers small and large graphics.