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We’re currently unpacking this week’s delivery but before I tell you what’s coming out of the boxes there’s some other important event stuff to mention:
Our Craig Thompson signing is happening this Saturday the 21st of January so cancel your plans and come hang out here for an hour or two. If you want even more Thompson you can catch him in conversation with Marcel Theroux (remember when he visited Gosh?) at the St Albans Centre near Holborn. It’s part of the Comica festival and will cost you 8 earth pounds. Head over to Paul Gravett’s website for more info and tickets.
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“Remember when you were little, and bedroom shadows loomed like monsters, and you thought sometimes that your parents weren’t your parents at all?
Remember when you hated school, hated your parents, hated everything except stray dogs, illicit substances, and the Beatles?
Remember when? Vincent Carl Santini does… or at least he thinks he does. And now he’s ready to spill the story of his checkered past – a story that embraces life, death, and everything in between – exactly the way he wants to remember it.”
Brooklyn Dreams by J.M. DeMatteis and Glenn Barr. £29.99.
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Hello and welcome to the first actually-on-regular-schedule delivery of 2012.
Top billing this week goes to the book with the gimmick: Keep Our Secrets by Jordan Crane, who you’ll remember from such books as The Last Lonely Sunday and his ongoing comic series Uptight. He also provided a brilliant multi-layered cover to Michael Chabon’s book of essays Maps & Legends, published by McSweeney’s, which is probably one of the many reasons why that same publisher has let him go wild with some magic ink. Keep Our Secrets is ostensibly a kids’ book – it’s comes under the McSweeney’s McMullens children’s book imprint – about a young boy and girl walking through a house where the adults are having a party, and the girl tells secrets about the people and things she passes. That’s where the gimmick comes in: by rubbing the black ink with your thumb the heat makes it disappear and reveal the colour picture beneath it. Here’s a bearded hipster over at McSweeney’s explaining how to read the book using i. his thumb and ii. two hairdryers. Meanwhile, there’s a great review of the book over at Wired that brought the following useless information to my attention: American Apparel are trying to bring back those heat-sensitive shirts I remember from school. Good grief.
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Welcome to a brand new year, folks! 2012 still sounds way off in The Future, but we’re here and we still have no jetpacks, no silver spacesuits, and if you put a spoon in the microwave things will still go horribly wrong. Maybe next year someone will fix it. In the meantime there’s new comics to distract us and first off the block is one from fan-favourite duo, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Criminal).
Quick note: just like last week, new comics are out on Thursday because of the bank holiday. We’ll be hauling them off the back of a truck that same day so phone ahead or keep an eye on our Twitter where we’ll announce their arrival. They might not be here until the afternoon.
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