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The multiple Eisner-nominated creator Nicolas de Crécy, most recently seen on our shelves with the Salvatore series, sees his book Le Bibendum Céleste released in a translated edition early in 2012. It’s recounts the absurd tale of one lonely seal called Diego in the vast and corrupt metropolis of New York on the Seine. It’s a bizarre and beautiful piece of baroque storytelling, as you can see from these preview pages:
In February, Humanoids are releasing an incredibly-hard-to-come-by slipcased edition retailing at a whopping $69.95 USD, which would translate to £52.99 if it ever made it to the UK but it won’t (for boring legal reasons). So it’s just as well we have another option available with a similar release date: a less expensive oversized hardcover edition retailing at a far preferable £24.99. It’s co-published by Knockabout, with whom Gosh! has previously published Alan Moore‘s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen III, Winshluss‘ Pinocchio, Gilbert Shelton‘s The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus and several others over the years. It’s a lovely and strange-looking thing we liked so much we chose to publish it ourselves. That’s a Gosh! recommendation if ever there was one.
Eddie Campbell spends most of the year locked up in his house like every other freelancer, except for when he has to walk the dog in the afternoon or give a talk at the Sydney Opera House (as you do). Sydney’s Graphic festival was in the news most recently on account of being the one that Robert Crumb refused to go to after being called a pervert in an Australian newspaper. But no such slander greeted Campbell in the morning post and he still turned up in a nice shirt to give a talk about his favourite topic and subject of his upcoming book: money. In 2012 he’s coming to Gosh! with a bunch of slides to do it all again.
Here’s the blurb from that first outing, written by the man himself on the back of an envelope in a pub:
It possible to make money out of comics?
The subject is money. As explained with no authority whatsoever by a man who draws pictures for a living. Featuring unpublished illustrations, histrionics, humorous asides and totally useless information, including how Campbell became incorporated just so he could write and draw Batman, and what went wrong with that; how his accountant goes to work in a sarong and bare feet because he fancies himself as an artist. As well as Campbell’s weeklong visit to the mysterious tropical island of Yap, to get the inside story of the ancient stone money for his next book.
The pictures he draws for a living can be found in stuff like his collaborations with Alan Moore (From Hell, A Disease of Language), his autobiographical books (Alec: The Years Have Pants, The Fate of the Artist), an insane book about a circus troupe (The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard), his epic Bacchus (soon to be collected) and most recently a book about a celibate middle-aged man’s sex life (The Playwright). He even did a really, really weird Batman.
There’s loads more I haven’t even mentioned. He’s a Gosh! favourite and we’re glad to have him back.
On Friday the 3rd of February Campbell will be here to sign books from 6:30pm. Then at about 7pm we’ll turn on the projector and let him blather entertainingly for an hour or so. It’s rare he’s ever on this side of the planet so miss it at your peril. “I don’t want to be standing up there with my arse hanging out and nobody in the audience,” he said, promoting his talk in Sydney. I’m sure the same applies here.
EDIT! If you’d like to come along to this please send us an email to info@goshlondon.com saying so. We can only fit 50 people so you’d best get your name in quick.
Friday, the 3rd of February. 6:30pm signing, 7pm talk.
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This is the penultimate Gosh! Blog before Christmas in which I put our Christmas opening times up front and centre to make things easier throughout your upcoming panic. We’re open until 8pm on some days so you can buy presents for people with the intention of borrowing them in February. Getcher diaries out and put this in:
Sun – Wed:
10:30am – 7:00pm
Thurs – Sat:
10:30am – 8:00pm
Christmas Eve:
10.30am-7:00pm
Christmas Day:
CLOSED
Boxing Day:
CLOSED
New Year’s Eve:
10.30am-4:00pm
New Year’s Day:
CLOSED
Meanwhile, Art Spiegelman was in the house last week for an interview with the BBC News. I took some pictures of him from my naturally great height and made everyone feel awkward just for this blog post here. Eddie Campbell caught the show on iPlayer (as you can too) and bunked off work for the afternoon to do this. Time well spent.
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As part of the BBC’s ongoing Meet the Author series, wee Art Spiegelman popped in yesterday for an interview with Nick Higham. I imagine they talked about Maus what with it being the 25th anniversary of the book, but then I’m just making a wild stab in the dark here because I spent the duration of the interview behind the counter. I’ll have to tune in with the rest of you and watch it on the BBC News Channel at 7:50pm tonight for the five minute show. I’ll sound the trumpets as soon as it’s on iPlayer. Meanwhile, here’s a recent interview with the man over at The Guardian. “Having a writer in the family is to have a traitor in it,” he says, and he’s right.
The latest Spiegelman book on the shelf is Metamaus, a a gorgeously bound hardcover in which you can read the transcripts of Spiegelman’s interviews with his father, his wife, and his children, see early artwork drafts, and stare gaping-mouthed at an astonishing collection of rejection letters from publishing houses. It’s £25 and well worth it.
The above photos are Exhibit A for why Hayley Campbell should never be allowed to take photos of people under 5’10.
EDIT! If you’re quick you can catch it on iPlayer here. Meanwhile, Eddie Campbell has amused himself.
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Welcome to the latest dispatch from Gosh! HQ, currently a very dark corner of a basement while I await the changing of the bulb. On another (brighter) day, I rounded up all of the signed books in the shop for those of you who are into that sort of thing and put it on the blog. I took pictures of my hand holding said books for a more interactive online experience. Pretend it’s your hand. Is this weird? I’m sorry. Also, I posted about Marcel Theroux popping in to talk about Craig Thompson’s Habibi for BBC Two’s The Review Show. Maybe you saw him on the telly the other night. No? Good job it’s on iPlayer then.
In the boxes we’ve just hauled off the back of a delivery truck we found the following things:
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