In 2012, much-loved comics magazine Tripwire turns 20! In celebration, Gosh! will  be playing host to a number of events showcasing the magazine’s rich history, kicking off with an exhibition of editor-in-chief Joel Meadows’ unique comic creator portraits. From Alan Moore to Dave McKean, Michael Moorcock to Rob Williams, these photographs provide a rare personal introduction to many of the comic world’s biggest names. The exhibition will be commemorated with a limited edition book, available in-store at Gosh, that will feature the photographs from the exhibition and more besides!

The grand unveiling takes place at the launch party on Saturday the 10th of March at 7pm. Come toast the creators you love the most as you gaze upon their framed faces. If you can’t make the party make sure you drop by at some point before the end of the month. The exhibition runs until Thursday the 29th of March.

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The following missive was typed in a panic by one Hayley Campbell, having just realised that it has to go on the Internet this afternoon and not tomorrow as she had erroneously thought:

We hope you had a lovely Christmas, etc etc. We ate too much chocolate, etc etc. I’m currently sitting beside our Steven who is having leftover Christmas dinner for the second day running and I am furious with envy. To distract myself I’m thinking about other things such as our early closing on New Year’s Eve (that’s 4pm) and how we’ll be closed entirely on New Year’s Day. New comic book day is tomorrow (that’s Thursday the 29th) and next week you can have them on Thursday the 5th. But remember that we’re hauling them off the back of the truck on those very days (alas, no buffer day!) so chances are they might not arrive until the afternoon. With that in mind, you may want to put off your visit until after lunch.

In the busy days before Christmas I put a load of stuff on the Gosh! Blog that you might have missed: on Saturday the 21st of January we’ll be having a Craig Thompson signing (aw yiss!), and in March we’ll be  launching the lovely Tom Gauld’s new book from Drawn & Quaterly, Goliath (hooray!). I revealed the cover to the nearly-finished new installment of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century (due June, 2012), and then I put up a few scans from a very swish article about the shop in Retail Focus magazine. I like how Hernandez cleavage is the defining feature of the shop.

All of the above will help to pad out what looks to be a small-ish week compared to your usual haul:

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League fans, listen up! Alan Moore finished his script for the last installment of the third series ages ago and since then Kevin O’Neill has been busy at the drawing board. With 63 pages in the bag already he’s go just 9 more to go. We expect to see The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Centuy 2009 on our shelves in June, 2012. Yes, it’s a little early to start counting sleeps but we thought you’d like an update nonetheless.

CHANGE OF PLAN: Earlier this was supposed to be Monday the 16th January but Craig’s dates have changed. Please change the dates in your diaries accordingly. Sorry for messing you about! — Hayley

This year I don’t think there was a more talked-about book than Craig Thompson’s Habibi. The single Gosh! advance reading copy was a poor battered mess by the time it had been kicked around in every staff member’s bag, and when our exclusive bookplate editions arrived they didn’t last very long at all. It’s an astonishing book that has been reviewed and argued about in print and online and if you’ve not read it yet you’ve missed a trick. Buy yourself a copy and find a bookmark. It’s 672 glorious pages long.

Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, HABIBI tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them.

At once contemporary and timeless, HABIBI gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling.

Craig Thompson will be in the country next month for his European book tour. He’ll be parked at the Gosh! signing table from 5pm until 7pm on Saturday the 21st of January and we’re very glad to have him. We’ll have plenty of copies of the book available on the day but if you’d like to grab one now you might end up with one of the last remaining copies of Habibi’s increasingly rare first print run.

Craig Thompson Signing: Saturday, 21st of January

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There’s a big tin of Quality Street on the counter and if you don’t come in and save us from ourselves we will be too obese to file your comics. Meanwhile, the How Late?!? is on red paper this week which means it’s the FINAL ONE before Christmas. Opening times over the next few days are as follows:

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