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Rob Davis, Sarah McIntyre & Woodrow Phoenix. Photo by Mauricio de Souza.

Well, that should be the last of the Gosh! induced hangovers for 2011. I hope you enjoyed them. There’ll be a blog post about the Nelson launch party imminently, where you’ll be able to see yourself in a bunch of pictures you probably didn’t know were being taken.

EDIT! Nelson launch party post by our Tom is now up.

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Most photos (all the good ones) are by Gosh! customer Mauricio de Souza

Last Friday night corks popped, pens scratched and in a flurry of flashbulbs and amicable conversation, Nelson was finally introduced to its adoring public. While the book has been available for a couple of weeks previously, its concept, content and creative team remain the subject of a great deal of excitement and attention, as best evidenced by Gosh’s showstopping launch party.

The huge crowd posed a considerable threat to Gosh’s structural integrity and alcohol supply as the night wore on and wave after wave of artists and readers descended on the shop to celebrate one of contemporary British comics’ most exciting projects.

Like a modern day graphic novelist’s Last Supper, clockwise around the head of the table sat Rian Hughes, Warren Pleece, Rob Davis, Josceline Fenton, Sarah Mcintyre, Woodrow Phoenix, Laura Howell, Roger Langridge and Jonathan Edwards. If you squint you can just make out the nattily-striped window doodler Will Morris hiding in plain sight in the top-right-hand corner, trying not to make a fuss.

Here, Gosh window contributors Sarah Mcintyre and Woodrow Phoenix hold court. Pictured is Mcintyre’s stylish fascinator, which Gosh’s own Steven Walsh was later seen to besport, provoking unanimous delight.

Camera-shy partygoers and wünderkartoonists Warwick Johnson-Cadwell and Gary Northfield captured in the wild by unofficial party photographer Mauricio De Souza. Thanks, Mauricio!

In another De Souza snap, Glyn Dillon is caught in the act of enjoying a witticism.

Josceline Fenton, Will Morris, Paul Peart-Smith

Once the artists were up and about and ready to stretch their legs and enjoy a discreet beverage, they were kind enough to take part in another Gosh charity scheme, creating these four delightful exquisite corpses! These are now on sale through the shop for twenty quid each.

Sadly already been and gone, however, is our glorious Knitted Nel, provided by Deadly Knitshade. At auction, the woollen wonder went to a very generous email bidder, handsomely increasing the amount of money flooding in to Shelter via London’s comics fans.

Also on sale are these beautiful pages of original artwork, currently lining the walls of our humble boutique, and available to purchase and take home today! Come in and take a gander at the genuine articles in person, and why not pick up a copy of our bookplated edition of Nelson while you’re at it?

Ellen Lindner, page 24, £100

Gary Northfield, page 28, £150

Sarah Mcintyre, page 33, £100

Paul Peart-Smith, page 63, £150

Paul Peart-Smith, page 64, £150

Warren Pleece, page 106, SOLD

Dan McDaid, page 163, £100

Will Morris, page 175, £100

Tom Humberstone, page 200, £100

Dan Berry, page 209, £150

Andi Watson, page 219, £100

Dave Taylor, page 224, £150

Watch this space for more thrillsome happenings, only at Gosh!

– Tom

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Nelson night will soon be upon us and in the likely event you have been standing in a windtunnel of news re: The Book Of The Moment I thought I’d do a little round-up of the most important bits so you’re ready for the launch party on Friday. It’s a party primer. READY? Let’s go:

Lots more photos over on Flickr.

Over the last week a handful of Nelsonists were set loose in Gosh! with a fistful of Posca pens in order to cover the shop windows with art. So while Woodrow Phoenix, Sarah McIntyre, Will Morris and JAKe were trying to get their work done before we booted them out at closing time our very own Tom Crowley stuck a camera in their respective faces. This is what they had to say about being part of the most ambitious collaborative project in comics we’ve seen to date:

Deadly Knitshade (Knit the City) watched as her studiomates Gary Northfield, Ellen Lindner, and Sarah McIntyre joined over 50 other creators in bringing this one character to life. And while she loves comics as much as the rest of us, Knitshade‘s talents lie in the realm of wool (and Sainsbury’s bags), so she went and made her own knitted Nel. In answer to that question you’re yet to voice: yes she has underpants. They’re purple.

You can bid on the knitted Nel by email right up until the real-life auction happens in Gosh! tomorrow night at 7pm. Our address is info@goshlondon.com and you’d best get cracking. In fact, it’s already started. Five minutes ago we had a bid for 50 big ones! All proceeds go to Shelter, just like all the money from the book itself. Do we hear a £55?

Events kick off at 6pm and our fridge is full of booze. We’ll have Nelsonists Roger Langridge, Rian Hughes, Sarah McIntyre, Woodrow Phoenix, Rob Davis (and more!) in the shop to sign anything you push their way, such as the Nelson: Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition featuring art by Frank Quitely (Batman & Robin) signed and numbered by the man himself.

Steven Appleby and Art Lester popped in yesterday to sign copies of their new book, The Coffee Table Book of Doom. Appleby pushed the boat way out and not only signed them but did a completely different sketch in every single copy in the shop. Like this one:

So what’s it all about?

“Dear fellow mortal,

Imagine that you’re sitting on your sofa leafing through this book, when you feel an odd vibration. Ripples start to shiver across the surface of your teacup. Puzzled, you strain your ears. Then you hear a distant rumbling sound. The noise grows louder. And nearer. The sound is unfamiliar at first, but then you realise what it is. Hoofbeats. Don’t go to the window and peer through the curtains. Don’t tempt the horsemen of the Apocalypse by showing your face. Doom is no longer far off in the distant future. It could arrive as early as Tuesday morning. There’s nothing you can do except read on…

Yours anxiously,

the authors”

Remember the good old days, when doom was straightforward? When all we had to worry about were those 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Bible: Pestilence, War, Famine and Death? Well now we have reason to believe that there are more than 4 horsemen. Many more. In fact, at the last count the authors of The Coffee Table Book of Doom put the estimate at 27 horsemen. And that’s not all. According to the ancient prophesies of the Mayan Calendar, our next date with doom is due on December 31st, 2012… The Coffee Table Book of Doom is a brilliantly funny yet erudite compendium of all the 27 doom-laden horsemen we need to worry about – personal doom, gender erosion, asteroid impact, pandemics, super storms, sexual ruin – and much more besides.

The Coffee Table Book of Doom is £14.99 and we can even mail them anywhere in the doomed world, as usual. Send us an email to info@goshlondon.com if you’d like one.

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Yesterday marked the beginning of the end for us, clean-window-wise, when Woodrow Phoenix (Rumble Strip), Sarah McIntyre (Vern & Lettuce), Will Morris (whose illustration blog is a thing of wonders, this one in particular), and JAKe (Hellraisers) popped in. They shook some Posca pens for the most infuriatingly long time and then became some of the strangest mannequins Soho has ever seen:

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