Gosh! London – the Culture of Comics

Forget about all the other stuff going on in your life for a second and if it’s happening on Saturday then just go ahead and cancel it. Tell them to delay the funeral. Tell the baby to stay where it is. Tell them you can’t come to the wedding because Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill are signing the new Nemo book at Gosh! Comics on Saturday and you have to be there early or you might miss out. Send them this link as proof. Starts at 2pm, ends 4 hours later at which point we take Alan and Kevin away from you and put food in them. Get there early — time and dinner wait for no man. Incidentally, Nemo: Heart of Ice is on the shelves NOW! Feel free to read it before the signing day, or you can use it to keep yourself occupied in the line. Up to you.

ALSO: A surprise exclusive that we’ve been keeping quiet even though our Mike was bursting to tell everybody. We have a Nemo screenprint by Kevin O’Neill (signed by Kevin and Alan Moore) and it’s also on sale now for £90. We’ll ship anywhere in the world. Don’t email me about it, go straight to our online shop and click the “buy” button. And be quick! Only 250 of these exist in the world. No phone orders on this one, folks. We’re going online only with this one.

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Not only are we treating you to TWO Alan Moore events this year before April, we are also well and truly outstaying our welcome in the bearded one’s life by asking him to sign a pile of screen prints for you too. What is this screen print? It’s the thing we’re doing to coincide with the release of the new book, Nemo: Heart of Ice:

It’s 1925, fifteen long years since Janni Dakkar first tried to escape the legacy of her dying science-pirate father, only to accept her destiny as the new Nemo, captain of the legendary Nautilus. Now, tired of her unending spree of plunder and destruction, Janni launches a grand expedition to surpass her father’s greatest failure: the exploration of Antarctica. Hot on her frozen trail are a trio of genius inventors, hired by an influential publishing tycoon to retrieve the plundered valuables of an African queen. It’s a deadly race to the bottom of the world — an uncharted land of wonder and horror where time is broken and the mountains bring madness. Jules Verne meets H.P. Lovecraft in the unforgettable final showdown, lost in the living, beating and appallingly inhuman HEART OF ICE.

We are pushing the boat way, way out for this one and Kevin O’Neill is neck-deep in the sea helping us do it. He’s produced a piece of art just for this purpose: a Gosh! original screen print signed by both himself and Moore. The seven-colour print is A3 (297mm x 420mm) in size, and features Janni Nemo in striking pose. O’Neill produced the art just for this print which means it’s not in the book, it’s not on the cover and is exclusively available through Gosh! There are just 250 copies up for grabs so we’re limiting it to just one print per person. You can buy them in store and mail orders are available through PayPal. All prints will be sent rolled in a tube as opposed to the store-bought flat-packed variety. Want one? You can buy it in store or through our online shop here.

Gosh! Exclusive Kevin O’Neill Nemo Screen Print

Print size: A3 (297mm x 420mm)

Price: £90.00 plus P&P

Release Date: Tuesday March 5^th 2013

Available: Both in store and online, ships internationally.

All queries: Talk to Mike at info@goshlondon.com

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Hey there, Goshovites,

No Hayley this week. I could spin some fanciful tale to explain her absence, but the fact is sometimes she just likes to take time out to tackle huge jigsaw puzzles. I believe this week it’s this wonderful waterhole scene. Lovely.

In that spirit, like thirsty elephants to the sweet life-giving pool of comics, let’s splash in! (And please excuse the swarming typos, like crocodiles in the reeds, as this slightly rushed week is lacking the — err — alert hyena of effective proofreading? Oh, forget it.)

If you were one of the unlucky souls who waited more than 90 seconds to try and purchase a ticket to tonight’s sold out Alan Moore/Mitch Jenkins Unearthing event, we’ve an excellent consolation prize: the release of the Unearthing book in a standard softcover version, or in a super-sized hardcover edition. Either is worth getting, but the over-sized format (limited to 1,500 copies) really showcases Jenkins’ striking photography.

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Photo stolen from Darryl Cunningham

It’s Tuesday so those of you with proper jobs (hello, I have heard of you people) are probably already already looking at your plans for your regular falls-on-a-Saturday-and-Sunday weekend and thinking, “Where are they, these plans?” If you would like to attend a comic convention instead of whatever it is you thought you were going to do, you can do that this weekend at the London Super Comic Con. We’ll be there too, selling comics. Come say hi. There’s also the added benefit of people you don’t see on see on a weekly basis: Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, Lee Bermejo, Brian Bolland, Mark Buckingham, Mike Carey, Glenn Fabry, David Hine and more.

There’s also a bunch of science-and-comics based events happening in Shoreditch under the umbrella of SuperLAB. Starts on the 20^th, ends a week later.

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They come around so rarely now that they deserve top billing when they do: The Comics Journal #302 has landed and it’s just as big as the last one. It’s got the longest Maurice Sendak interview ever published, and it’s one of the last interviews he did before he died last year. He looks back at his 60 year career and talks art, childhood, parents, life and death. There’s an excerpt over at the online Comics Journal which I’m going to put a chunk of here because, well, obviously:

SENDAK: …It’s what you see as a child, it’s what you notice. It’s like when I was … the man who wrote a book that said Hauptmann was not the killer of the Lindbergh baby … and that’s bad. He made the terrible mistake of talking about his book at the Richfield Library. Richfield, this is the most right-wing, goyish a county that could ever be. And I went to the lecture, about eight people there — Who wants to hear about the Lindbergh kidnapping? — I kept raising my hand saying, “No, no you got that wrong, you got that wrong,” and afterward … he came over to me and said, “Can we have coffee? You seem to know an awful lot about his case.”

And I said, “I know when you made a mistake. You really haven’t done your homework carefully enough.”

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