We’re in! I’m typing this from the middle of Soho in a damn fine lookin’ shop that is currently (and so far, constantly) packed with people I’ve never seen before in all my puff: a whole bunch of curious new customers. They come in peace.

If you’ve not yet come down to see us, why not do it this Saturday? From 6pm we’ll be hosting a  launch party for that phenomenally talented young artist Luke Pearson and his latest graphic novel published by Nobrow, Everything We Miss. There will be drinks and nibbles and Luke will sign your books while you’re here. It officially ends at 8pm, but chances are you’ll end up in our new local across the road The Endurance, where an old stuffed bear oversees all your pints and peanuts and unwise suggestions involving shots of tequila. Incidentally, this overcaffeinated Gosh! Blog comes courtesy of our new neighbours Foxcroft & Ginger who do a proper good coffee and having enjoyed a dozen or so already I consider myself a jittery expert in the matter.

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Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.

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Photo by Mauricio de Souza, pinched by me with no permission whatsoever.

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Alan Moore/Kevin O’Neill/Gary Spencer Millidge signing on Saturday – it was an enormous day, and despite capping the line very early on Moore and O’Neill signed well beyond their dinnertime. If you didn’t manage to get a signed copy of Alan Moore: Storyteller, we have a limited number of copies signed by Millidge in the shop.

In sort of related news, I learned a thing that day from Moore’s daughter, Amber, who confirmed a doubt I’ve had in my mind for some time: What is Alan Moore’s favourite kind of biscuit? I myself have asked in the past but received an inconclusive answer. Amber confirms: “Chocolate Malted Milk, which he calls cow-on-the-back biscuits.” So now you know. Go forth and adjust your Wikipedia entries.

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Luke Pearson is a brilliant young English artist who’s becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the Gosh! shelves, the Gosh! walls (he’s the man behind the excellent artwork on the WE’RE MOVING! poster you keep seeing everywhere), and even on people, having designed a T-shirt for Weezer not so long ago. This week we received his brand new graphic novel, Everything We Miss, a book about the breakdown of a relationship and the infinitesimal events we would notice if our attention wasn’t directed elsewhere. Our pals over at Dave’s Comics in Brighton have already dubbed it one of the best graphic novels of the year, and chances are you’ll like it just as much.

If you’ve braved the infamous spiral staircase you will have seen Pearson’s previous work amongst the self-published comics and zines downstairs. There’s Some People, a four-page story originally produced as an entry in The Guardian’s short graphic story competition, and Dull Ache, a 40-page collection of black and white oddments from his sketchbook, along with a full-length story called Beds. In 2010, London’s NoBrow press published Hildafolk, an all-ages tale steeped in Scandinavian folklore about a girl embarking on an adventure into strange worlds ruled by magical forces. Because it’s from NoBrow it smells downright amazing which is only partly why we’re so excited about this bigger, more ambitious book, Everything We Miss.

“Everything We Miss is a breakup story set against a darkly fantastical backdrop. A couple’s final moments together are documented alongside the events and strange occurrences that go on unseen and unheard around them (and around us).”

He talks about it in an interview here.

To celebrate the new book we’ll be holding a London launch party in the new, bigger Gosh! at No. 1 Berwick Street, W1F 0DR. There’ll be drinks, nibbles and you’ll even get to meet the artist who’ll be happy to sign any comics you hold in your outstretched mitts (he promises not to get hors d’œuvres stuck between the pages). It’s on the 13th of August from 6pm to 8pm. Everyone is welcome. Come join us! Come give me a reason to hoover! I’ll see you there.

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