Wait, wait. Hold up. We’ve got some books to tell you about, sure, but everything can wait because we’ve just announced another signing. Jaime Hernandez (thassright, JAIME HERNANDEZ, as in one third of the Hernandez Brothers, as in the guy who draws Love & Rockets, as in Jaime Hernandez) is coming to Gosh! to sign some books for you good people. It’s happening in TWO WEEKS which is not very long at all, which means there is no chance of you getting tired of the idea before it happens, like Christmas or weddings or whatever. Two weeks. Clear your diary. Go dig out your Love & Rockets. Come wait in a line on Wednesday the 29th of May, 5pm to 7pm. All details through here.

(He’s also doing a talk the following day hosted by Comica and BD & Comics Passion over at the French Institute. It’s only a tenner and tickets are selling fast. Details this way. Make sure you look at everything else that’s going on over that weekend, the French Institute festivals are great.)

Thank you to everyone who came to the absolutely packed Stephen Collins launch party. He is a thoroughly nice dude and a ridiculously good cartoonist and if you’d like a copy of The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil: The Bookplate Edition you’d best get in quick. Speaking as a person at the frontline I can tell you with utmost certainty that this one is going to disappear very quick. Still on the fence? WHY? Have a 12-page preview.

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A BRIEF NOTE ON THIS WEEK’S DELIVERY SINCE WE KNOW YOU DON’T READ FURTHER THAN THIS FIRST LINE (NO REALLY, IT’S FINE, REALLY): because of the bank holiday the comics are arriving a day later (for us) which means they’re turning up on Wednesday, the same day they’re due on the shelf. No buffer zone Tuesday of unpacking and bagging. Keep an eye on Twitter and Facebook where we’ll announce their arrival, otherwise just aim for the afternoon (or even Thursday).

Thanks to everybody who came, saw and conquered the Free Comic Book Day chaos. If you chose to stay at home in your Luke Skywalker outfit instead then you will have missed out on free comics and window painting. Still, those paintings are up on the windows and will remain so for a bit. Come see Laurence Campbell’s Judge Dredd, Gary Northfield’s Rupert the Bear and a whole crowd more, including whatever it is that Stephen Collins is currently painting in preparation for Friday night’s upcoming launch party for The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil.

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Since the last time we were here in this weekly missive we’ve had a bunch of events that you might have been at. Thank you to everyone to came to the Tom Gauld thing (and thank you to Tom for giving us cupcakes, mine lasted all of three seconds before it went to a better place), the Ian Gibson thing (we have signed copies of The Ballad of Halo Jones if you weren’t there) and the Tiny Pencil launch party on Saturday night (we’ve got signed copies of the Tiny Pencil anthology and if you like pencils or illustration or both you should come grab a copy. Here’s what it looks like). BUT we haven’t run out of events just yet. This Saturday you should bring your kids down to Free Comic Book Day and let them draw with a bunch of very nice artists. The following Friday your presence is required here with a booze of some kind in your hand because we’re launching Stephen Collins’ The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil from a cannon. BYO cannon.

From Nobrow this week comes a great-looking book called Destination X, a little pulp sci-fi bright pink hardcover by John Martz, Canadian cartoonist and one of the people behind the very excellent illustration blog, Drawn. He says it’s inspired by Star Trek, ghost stories and The Twilight Zone. The artwork is predictably brilliant and Nobrow have a preview. Here’s some more John Martz for in two minutes when you realise you want more John Martz.

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Do you like comics? Drawing? Watching other people draw? Drinking booze? Saturday nights in Soho? A combination of all the above? Well, your luck is well and truly in!

In case you’ve forgotten or were just plain unaware, tomorrow night sees the launch of swish new comics anthology Tiny Pencil, with a plethora of UK artistic talent working pencil magic under its lovely looking covers.

So get yourself down here for 7pm, or better yet get down earlier and make it a double header with our Ian Gibson Halo Jones signing from 2-4pm. It’ll be quite the shindig!

Hold up: what are your plans for tomorrow night? If you’re thinking about sitting at home watching a box-set of Columbo, listen to me: you can do that anytime. But you can only attend the launch party of Tom Gauld’s You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack tomorrow night. That’s your only option. After that, the party is literally over. 7.30 to 9pm, come get your book signed by Tom and gaze lovingly at the thing he painted on the window if you feel like it. All details this way.

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Right, so: comics are back to Wednesdays as usual, the sun is out and it looks a bit springy and everything might seem regular except it looks like you’re going to have to cadge a backy to pick up your comics because London’s transport is going to be all weird thanks to a funeral. Comics are on time this week. Criswell predicts: you not so much. But! When you get here these lovely things will be waiting for you:

Marshal Law, the massive deluxe omnibus edition we’ve been yammering on about, has landed with a thud. It’s huge. We’ve got Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill coming in to sign them THIS SATURDAY between 2 and 4pm. If you’d like a copy reserved or can’t make the signing send us an email to info@goshlondon.com and we can sort you out with one.

(Also happening this Saturday is Record Store Day with a bunch of bands playing on Berwick Street. Details and band listings this way. Go say hi to our neighbours.)

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