Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Age Of Bronze #29
Age Of Reptiles Journey #1
Amazing Spider-Man #610
Angel #27
AOD Ash Saves Obama #3 (Of 4)
Assault On New Olympus
Astonishing X-Men #32
Athena #2
Authority #16
Batman Battle For The Cowl Companion TP
Batman Confidential #36
Batman The Unseen #3 (Of 5)
Batman Widening Gyre #3 (Of 6)
Black Widow Deadly Origin #1 (Of 4)
Boys #36
Boys HC Vol 01 Ltd Ed Name Of The Game Boys Herogasm #6 (Of 6)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #30
Captain America Reborn #4 (Of 6)
Cinderella From Fabletown With Love #1 Conan The Cimmerian #15
Daredevil #502
Deadpool Team-Up #899
Deathlok #1 (Of 7)
Doctor Voodoo Avenger Of Supernatural #2
Doom Patrol #4 (Blackest Night)
End League #9 (Of 9)
Exiles Point Of No Return TP
Fantastic Four Visionaries Walter Simonson TP Vol 02
Fathom #9
Frank Frazetta’s Dark Kingdom #2 (Of 4)
From The Ashes #6
Ghost Rider Danny Ketch TP Vol 01
Ghost Riders Heavens On Fire #4 (Of 6)
Great Ten #1 (Of 10)
Greek Street #5
Haunt #2
Hellblazer Scab TP
House Of M Masters Of Evil #4 (Of 4)
House Of Mystery #19
Immortal Weapons #4 (Of 5)
Iron Man Armor Wars #4 (Of 4)
Jonah Hex #49
Lobo Highway To Hell #1 (Of 2)
Magog #3
Marvel Zombies 3 TP
Marvel Zombies Evil Evolution
Marvelous Land Of Oz #1 (Of 8)
Mighty #10
North 40 #5 (Of 6)
Nova #31
Nova TP Vol 05 War Of Kings
Official Index To Marvel Universe #11
Project Superpowers Chapter Two #4
Project Superpowers Meet The Bad Guys #3
Psylocke #1 (Of 4)
Red Tornado #3 (Of 6)
Savage Dragon #154
Secret Six #15
Star Trek Romulans Schism #3
Star Wars Invasion #5 (Of 5)
Starr The Slayer #3 (Of 4)
Starstruck #3
Strange Adventures Of HP Lovecraft #4 (Of 4)
Strange Tales #3 (Of 3)
Street Fighter II Turbo #9
Stumptown #1
Superman World Of New Krypton #9 (Of 12)
Sweet Tooth #3
Terror Inc TP Apocalypse Soon
Timestorm 2009-2099 HC
Torch #3 (Of 8)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #4
Unknown Devil Made Flesh #2
Warlord #8
Witchfinder In The Service Of Angels #5 (Of 5)
X-Men Origins Iceman
X-Men Vs Agents Of Atlas #2 (Of 2)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Due To Arrive 05/11/09
The Gosh! Authority 28/10/09
This just in! Really. I’m typing this only moments hauling dozens of boxes of Eddie Campbell’s Alec: The Years Have Pants down the precarious spiral staircase of Gosh! Campbell’s Pants are enormous and he hasn’t even seen them yet because he’s probably on a plane to Italy. Thicker than From Hell, they come in both hardcover and soft and are among the best designed books I’ve seen come through the door. The stuff inside’s pretty good too. Don’t forget he’s signing here next week and later that night you can see him in conversation at the ICA with comedian Arnold Brown.
R. Crumb’s epic Book of Genesis is finally sitting on our new release shelf after years of anticipation. All 50 chapters with ‘NOTHING LEFT OUT!’ make up the 244 pages, all painstakingly drawn in classic big-assed Crumb style. He originally began it as a satirical Adam and Eve story but quickly realised it was bizarre enough to be done unabridged and took it on as a straight illustration job.
"To take this as a sacred text, or the word of God or something to live by, is kind of crazy. So much of it makes no sense. To think of all the fighting and killing that's gone on over this book, it just became to me a colossal absurdity. That's probably the most profound moment I've had — the absurdity of it all."
It took him years. "I got totally sick of it by the end of it. I've come out exhausted. I may never draw again,” he says. Eddie Campbell (him again) picked up a copy recently and blogged about it, rounding up quotes from all over. A bad word can’t be found among them.
UK comic creators Glenn Dakin and Phil Elliot have a new collection out of The Rockpool Files: The Adventures of Mr. Crusht Acean and it’s delightful nutty. According to this thing on CbR it came about while Dakin and Elliot were walking along the beach at Folkstone...
They'd just finished eating a bowl of shrimp when Glenn suddenly screamed, "Oh, no! Do you realize that we've just eaten a bowl of sentient creatures, capable of deep and profound thoughts?"
"Shrimps are on the lowest rung of intelligent life," replied Phil. "Besides, crabs are far more perceptive, but that didn't stop you from tucking into that crab bisque you had at lunchtime. Why, I'd wager a crab could solve a crime as easily as Sherlock Holmes."
"That's it," said Glenn. "From now on I'm no longer going to eat crabs but will instead write mysterious, funny and downright odd stories about them." "And I'll draw them!" said Phil.
Incidentally, if you’ve never read Dakin’s Abe: Wrong for all the Right Reasons (now oddly out of print) track down a copy and read it. You’ll like it.
Danica Novgorodoff’s Slow Storm is a favourite here at Gosh! so we’re glad to see another one on the shelves. Her graphic novel Refresh Refresh is based on a short story by Benjamin Percy (still online at The Paris Review) about three boys in a small Oregon town whose fathers are off fighting the war in Iraq. CbR have an interview and a bunch of preview pages up, lovely colours and all. Novgorodoff pops up on the First Second blog, and Bookslut review it and love it.
P. Craig Russell’s Sandman: The Dream Hunters HC collects all four issues of the comics adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 1999 novella about a young monk and a shape-changing fox. If you missed it as it was coming out go have a read of this interview with Russell and have a look at some of the pages from what this reviewer calls ‘one of the most beautiful comics you’ll see all year’.
In comics this week we’ve got a new Groo miniseries from Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragones which sees The Hogs of Horder control the villagers’ minds, bodies, and money – can the inept Groo save the day? Their last miniseries was nominated for an Eisner so chances are this’ll be pretty good. Preview here.
Another new series starting this week is The Talisman, a comicbook adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s 1984 bestseller adapted by Robin Furth (of the Dark Tower series) and illustrated by Tony Shasteen (Occult Crimes Taskforce). The Road of Trials is the first of four six-issue miniseries about teenager Jack Sawyer who tries to save his dying mother by retrieving a magical talisman. If that sounds like your cup of tea you can see twelve (!) preview pages over at Entertainment Weekly.
Norman Osborn’s power-mad nonsense continues in Marvel’s Dark Reign: The List this week with two one-shots by big name creators. Dark Reign: The List: Punisher is illustrated by John Romita Jr. and written by Rick Remender who talks to Newsarama about the whole thing and points out that regular readers of Punisher won’t want to miss it because various story arcs have been building up to this one-off story. Andrew’s favourite Jason Aaron (Wolverine, Scalped) writes Dark Reign: The List: Wolverine (another one) and talks about it here. Esad Ribic does the pictures!
Marvel’s big X-Necrosha thing starts with a big one-shot called appropriately enough X-Necrosha One-Shot, in which the writers of X-Force, X-Men Legacy, and New Mutants (Chris Yost, Craig Kyle, Mike Carey, and Zeb Wells respectively) tell three stories that will then spin-off into their own appropriate series. They’ll tell you about it here. Thursday’s New Mutants #6 is also involved in all this so don’t miss that.
In other news, London Libraries are running a competition to win £100 of books from us at Gosh! plus a pair of tickets for events at this year’s Comica Festival at the ICA. Events include talks from the likes of Kevin O’Neill, James Jean and loads more. All you have to do is answer one simple question on this page here.
And finally, the lovely Tom Gauld (Gigantic Robot) tweets excitedly about Chris Ware’s cover to The New Yorker! It looks cracking, as does the comic on the inside.
As a wee blog bonus, here's a page from the Campbell's new Alec collection, originally printed in The Dance of Lifey Death. (Each tier enlarges separately)
And I’m done. Go out there and get yer bawbaw.
-- Hayley
In Store 23/10/09 - 05/10/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Betty & Veronica Double Digest #175
Tales From Riverdale Digest #35
2000 AD Prog #1659
Abe Sapien One-Shot
Alec: The Years Have Pants HC & SC(Eddie Campbell!)
Ambush Bug Year None #7 (Of 6)
Anita Blake LC Executioner #1 (Of 5)
Anita Blake VH LC TP Book 01
Arkham Reborn #1 (Of 3)
Arsenic Lullaby Pulp Edition Omega
Artemis Fowl GN Vol 2 Arctic Incident
Aspen Showcase Kiani
Astro City Astra Special #2 (Of 2)
Avengers Initiative #29
Dark Avengers Ares #1 (Of 3)
New Avengers #58
New Avengers TP Vol 10 Power
Ultimate Comics Avengers #3
Batman #692
Batman Monsters TP (W. Ellis Et Al)
Batman The Brave And The Bold #10
Detective Comics #858 (Williams)
Billy Batson & Magic Of Shazam #9
Blackest Night #4 (Of 8)
Blackest Night Titans #3 (Of 3)
Book Of Genesis HC (Robert Crumb)
BPRD TP Vol 11 Black Goddess
Buck Rogers #5
Dark Reign List Punisher One Shot
Dark Reign List Wolverine One Shot
Dark Reign Young Avengers #5 (Of 5)
Days Missing #3 (Of 5)
Dead Kingdom Of Flies TP (S. Bisley)
Die Hard Year One #2
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? #5
Enders Shadow Command School #2
Fantastic Four #572 (J. Hickman)
Final Crisis Aftermath Ink #6 (Of 6)
Frankenstein’s Womb GN Con Ed
Freakangels TP & HC Vol 03 (Ellis)
From The Pages Of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
FVZA #1 (Of 3)
Gen 13 #32
Gotham City Sirens #5
Green Lantern #47 (Blackest Night)
Groo Hogs Of Horder #1 (Of 4)
Guardians Of Galaxy #19
Hack Slash Series #27
Hack Slash TP Vol 06
Halo Helljumper #4 (Of 5)
Heavy Metal Fall 2009
Hi Fructose Magazine Quarterly #13
Hulk #16
Hulk Prem HC Vol 03 Hulk No More
Ignition City #5 (Of 5)
Incredible Hercules #137
Invincible Iron Man TP Vol 02
Invincible Presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode #1
Jack Of Fables #39
Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Music Box #1
Justice Society Of America #32
Kabuki TP Alchemy (David Mack)
Key Moments From The History Of Comics SC
Last Days Of Animal Man #6 (Of 6)
Lenore Noogies HC Color Ed
Madame Xanadu #16
Map Of My Heart GN (J. Porcellino)
Marvel Divas #4 (Of 4)
Marvel Holiday Spectacular
Marvel Previews November 2009
MMW Atlas Era Menace HC Vol 01
Models Inc #3 (Of 4)
Ms Marvel #46
Northlanders #21
Nova #30
Pilot Season Declassified
Predator #3 (Of 4)
Previews #254 November 2009
Proper Go Well High GN
Punisher #10
Queen Sonja #1
Red Snow HC
Refresh Refresh GN
Rockpool Files GN (Dakin/Elliot)
Bumper Book Of Roy O/T Rovers 2
Sandman The Dream Hunters HC
Secret Warriors #9 (J. Hickman)
Sherlock Holmes HC Vol 01
Bart Simpson Comics #50
Simpsons Classics #22
Son Of Hulk #16
Sparky O Hare GN
Spartacus Blood And Sand #1 (Of 4)
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Anti Venom #2 (Zeb Wells)
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #56
MMW Amazing Spider-Man TP Vol 3
Spider-Man American Son Prem HC
Spider-Man Clone Saga #2 (Of 6)
Spider-Man HC Newspaper Strips
Spider-Man Short Halloween Prem HC (Kevin Maguire)
Spin Angels #3 (Of 4)
Superman #693
Superman In Worlds Finest Archives HC 02
Superman Secret Origin #2 (Of 6)
Sword TP Vol 03 Earth
Talisman Road Of Trials #0
Teen Titans #76
Transmetropolitan TP Vol 4 New Ptg
Tribute Michael Jackson King Of Pop
Ultimate Comics Armor Wars #2 (Of 4) (Warren Ellis)
Unknown Soldier #13
War Machine #10
Web #2
Wildcats #16
Wizard Magazine #218
Wonder Woman #37
Worlds Finest #1 (Of 4)
New Mutants #6 (X-Force X-Over)
Wolverine Art Appreciation
Wolverine First Class #20
Wolverine HC Old Man Logan
Wolverine Weapon X #6
X Necrosha
X-Factor #50
X-Force #20
X-Men Forever #10
MANGA
A Distant Neighborhood GN Vol 02
Rin-Ne GN Vol 01
Yu Gi Oh R GN Vol 01
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Due To Arrive 29/10/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Abe Sapien One-Shot
Age Of Bronze #29
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Anti Venom #2
Ambush Bug Year None #7 (Of 6)
Anita Blake LC Executioner #1 (Of 5)
Arkham Reborn #1 (Of 3)
Astro City Astra Special #2 (Of 2)
Avengers Initiative #29
Bart Simpson Comics #50
Batman #692
Batman Monsters TP
Batman The Brave And The Bold #10
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #9
Blackest Night #4 (Of 8)
Blackest Night Titans #3 (Of 3)
Buck Rogers #5
Dark Avengers Ares #1 (Of 3)
Dark Reign List Punisher One-Shot
Dark Reign List Wolverine One-Shot
Dark Reign Young Avengers #5 (Of 5)
Detective Comics #858
Die Hard Year One #2
Enders Shadow Command School #2 (Of 5)
Fantastic Four #572
Final Crisis Aftermath Ink #6 (Of 6)
Frank Frazetta's Dark Kingdom #2 (Of 4)
Freakangels HC & TP Vol 3
Gotham City Sirens #5
Green Lantern #47 Blackest Night
Groo Hogs Of Horder #1 (Of 4)
Guardians Of Galaxy #19
Halo Helljumper #4 (Of 5)
Hulk #16
Hulk Prem HC Vol 3 Hulk No More
Ignition City #5 (Of 5)
Incredible Hercules #137
Invincible Presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode #1
Jack Of Fables #39
Justice Society Of America #32
Kabuki TP Alchemy
Killapalooza #6 (Of 6)
Last Days Of Animal Man #6 (Of 6)
Madame Xanadu #16
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #56
Marvel Divas #4 (Of 4)
Marvel Holiday Spectacular
Marvel Previews November 2009
Marvel Masterworks Amazing Spider-Man TP V3
Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Menace HC Vol 1
Models Inc #3 (Of 4)
Ms Marvel #46
New Avengers #58
New Mutants #6
Northlanders #21
Nova #30
Predator #3 (Of 4)
Previews #254 November 2009
Punisher #10
Queen Sonja #1
Secret Warriors #9
Sherlock Holmes HC Vol 1
Simpsons Classics #22
Son Of Hulk #16
Spider-Man American Son Prem HC
Spider-Man Clone Saga #2 (Of 6)
Spider-Man Short Halloween Prem HC
Star Wars Legacy #41 Rogues End
Strange Adventures Of HP Lovecraft #4 (Of 4)
Superman #693
Superman Secret Origin #2 (Of 6)
Teen Titans #76
Ultimate Comics Armor Wars #2 (Of 4)
Ultimate Comics Avengers #3
Unknown Soldier #13
War Machine #10
Web #2
Wildcats #16
Wolverine Art Appreciation One-Shot
Wolverine First Class #20
Wolverine HC Old Man Logan
Wolverine Weapon X #6
Wonder Woman #37
Worlds Finest #1 (Of 4)
X Necrosha One-Shot
X-Factor #50
X-Force #20
X-Men Forever #10
The Gosh! Authority 21/10/09
There’s just one blog extra to round up before I get onto the comics so here it comes: Eddie Campbell (he of From Hell, Bacchus, Alec fame) is signing here in the Gosh! basement on the 7th of November and I for one can’t feckin’ wait. Mark it in your diaries and make sure you’re there because it probably won’t happen again for ages – he lives in Australia and if any of you have endured that godforsaken plane journey you’ll understand why he delights in avoiding such nonsense.
Inside Woody Allen was a comic strip syndicated daily by King Features around the time Woody Allen was still brilliant (circa Annie Hall, Manhattan). It was all about his neuroses, angst, life philosophy, frequent psychiatric treatment, the lot. Dread & Superficiality : Woody Allen as Comic Strip is a lovely looking hardcover book collecting the very best of the classic strip which was drawn by Joe Marthen for a year and then taken over by Stuart Hample (a self-diagnosed chronic self-doubter and multi-media failure), who continued until its end in ’84. The book has well over 200 strips reproduced from the original art, plus sketches, photographs, a new preface from Hample and all sorts of developmental miscellany.
After big hit gritty crime comics like like Brubaker’s Criminal or Cooke’s The Hunter it probably won’t surprise you that there are more private dicks and femmes fatales in store for noir fans.
This week Dark Horse release Noir, a trade-paperback crime anthology that’s been in the pipeline for a very long time – understandably so, when you see the list of creators that editor Diana Shutz had to wrangle: Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets), Ed Brubaker (Criminal, Sleeper, Incognito), David Lapham (doing a Stray Bullets story!), Rick Geary (Treasury of Victorian Murder), Chris Offutt (HBO’s True Blood), Paul Grist (doing a new Kane strip!), Jeff Lemire (Essex County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth), M.K. Perker (Cairo, Air), the Fillbäch Brothers (Maxwell Strangewell), Alex de Campi (Smoke), Sean Phillips (Criminal), Eduardo Barreto (Cobb), Gabriel Bá (Umbrella Academy) Fábio Moon (Sugarshock), and Dean Motter (Mister X). Here’s an early review from someone who hopes there’s another volume in the post, and over at Publishers Weekly there’s a preview of stories by Grist, Lemire and Motter.
Fabio Moon turns up again in the Joss Whedon penned Sugarshock, a one-shot Eisner-winning story that originally appeared in the online issues of MySpace Dark Horse Presents. Moon talks about it here where there are also a few preview pages too.
Garth Ennis’ acclaimed war stories from Dynamite are now strung together in one, big hardcover. The Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies are all here together with sketches from artists Russ Braun, Peter Snejbjerg, and Carlos Ezquerra, commentary from Ennis and a complete cover gallery from John Cassaday and Garry Leach. It’s a far cry from his recent Herogasm, I can tell you. He says “I can't deny that I write these stories largely because of my own fascination with the war genre, and hopefully some of my enjoyment will come through for the reader. I certainly feel like Battlefields represents my A-game right now, the very best that I'm capable of. But beyond that, I'm hoping to keep alive some stories that might otherwise fade from the world that might disappear along with the men and women who lived them. If nothing else, stories like The Tankies and The Night Witches are a chance to acknowledge the courage of some pretty exceptional people.” More of that year-old interview here.
Nexus: Space Opera by Steve Rude (The Dude) is the mini-series that heralded the return of the legendary character Rude co-created with writer Mike Baron in the 1980s. If you ask Nat he’ll tell you Nexus is cool and worthy of a return. This trade collects all four Space Opera books (that’s Nexus 99-102) plus the 11-page painted story from Nexus 100. There’s an interview with The Dude from years ago over at Newsarama in which he sounds like a lovely chap and talks about getting Space Opera off the ground. You should buy his comics.
Last bits before I’m off: A few of the Duncan Fegredo Hellboy pages have already sold so if you’ve got your eye on anything you should let us know! Also, this weekend is the Fred Van Lente signing so locate your Amazing Spider-Man issues, Action Philosophers, Incredible Hercules and make sure you’re here on Saturday.
-- Hayley
In Store 16/10/09 - 22/10/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1658
Sinister Dexter Money Shots TP
Air #14
Angel Vs Frankenstein (John Byrne)
Dark Avengers #10 (Brian M Bendis)
Marvel Adventures Avengers TP Vol 10 Digest
Mighty Avengers #30
Azrael #1
Batman Confidential #35
Batman Streets Of Gotham #5 (P Dini)
Batman The Unseen #2 (Of 5)(Doug Moench/Kelly Jones)
Garth Ennis Battlefields HC Vol 1
Beasts Of Burden #2 (Of 4)(Evan Dorkin/Jill Thompson)
Brave And The Bold #28
Captain America Road To Reborn HC
Chew #5
Citizen Rex #4 (Of 6) (G. Hernandez)
Comic Diorama One-Shot
Cowboy Ninja Viking #1
Dark Reign List Hulk One-Shot (Pak)
DCU Halloween Special 2009 #1
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #4
Dominic Fortune #3 (Of 4)
Dread & Superficiality HC Woody Allen As Comic Strip
Echo TP Vol 3 Desert Run (T. Moore)
Elephantmen #22
Ex Machina #46 (Vaughan/Harris)
Family Circus Library HC Vol 1
Family Secret GN
Farscape Gone & Back #4
Final Crisis Aftermath Dance #6 (Of 6)
Final Crisis Legion Of Three Worlds HC
Five Fists Of Science GN New Ptg(Matt Fraction)
Franklin Booth American Illustrator HC
GI Joe #10
GI Joe Movie Snake Eyes #1
Good Neighbors GN Book 1 Kin
Hellblazer #260
Incredible Hulk #603
Marvel Masterworks Inhumans HC Vol 1 & Var Ed 125
Invincible #67
Invincible Iron Man #19
Jonah Hex Lead Poisoning TP
Justice League Of America #38
Last Resort #3
Lockjaw And The Pet Avengers HC
Lone Ranger & Tonto #3
Mice Templar Destiny #4
Nexus Space Opera TP (S. Rude)
Noir TP Vol 1 (Azzarello, Brubaker, Lemire, Grist, Lapham, Motter, Moon, Ba, Phillips)
Outsiders #23
Political Power #3 Joe Biden
Power Girl #6
Punisher Noir #3 (Of 4)
Puppy Power Bo Obama
Question TP Vol 5 Riddles
Resurrection Vol 2 #4
Runaways Rock Zombies TP
Runaways TP Vol 9 Dead Wrong Digest
Savage Tales Of Red Sonja TP
Scalped TP Vol 5 High Lonesome(Jason Aaron/R.M. Guerra)
Showcase Presents House Of Secrets TP
Simpsons Comics #159
Skrull Kill Krew #5 (Of 5) Dark Reign
Don Bluth Space Ace #1 (Of 6)(Robert Kirkman)
Spawn #195
Amazing Spider-Man #609
Spider-Man Death & Dating TP
Spider-Woman #2 (Brian Bendis/Alex Maleev)
Spike Omnibus TP
Stand Soul Survivors #1 (Of 5)
Star Trek Mission’s End TP
Star Trek Nero #3
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #46
Storming Paradise TP (C. Dixon)
Stuff Of Legend #2 (Of 2)
Sugarshock One-Shot (J. Whedon)
Supergirl #46
Superman Adventures Of Flamebird & Nightwing TP
Superman Batman #65
Talking Lines HC
Thor Tales Of Asgard By Lee & Kirby #6
Thunderbolts #137
Thunderbolts TP Burning Down The House
Tiny Titans #21
Transformers Tales Of The Fallen #3 (Of 5)
Uncle Sam Deluxe HC (Alex Ross)
Underground #2 (Of 5)
Vigilante #11
Waiting Place GN
War Machine TP Vol 1 Iron Heart
What A Wonderful World GN Vol 2
Wolfskin HC & TP Vol 1 (Warren Ellis)
Dark Wolverine #79
Wolverine Dark Wolverine HC Vol 1
Wolverine Noir Prem HC
Wolverine Origins #41
X-Men Legacy #228
Zero Killer #6 (Of 6)
MANGA
Fairy Idol Kanon GN Vol 2 (Of 4)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Eddie Campbell Signing at Gosh! Comics - Saturday 7th November
These days Eddie Campbell successfully avoids the grim greyness of London despite having been stuck drawing the bloody place for ten long years (see the burglar-stunning brick that is From Hell). Instead he can be found in his sunny house in Australia with a cat asleep on each foot, spouting opinions on the internet and most recently finishing off the behemoth that is Alec: The Years Have Pants - A Life-Sized Omnibus. He told CbR all about it last week.
Campbell’s a well known Scottish raconteur whose work has been likened to Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller. He’s probably best known for his Eisner-award winning collaboration with Big Hairy Alan Moore on the enormous From Hell I mentioned above, and also his own wine-drenched Bacchus. Pants collects his groundbreaking autobiographical work (a list of all the books included can be found on the Top Shelf website) plus a whole new book: thirty-five pages you haven’t seen before (check his blog for teaser panels). Moore turns up in it, as does Neil Gaiman and various other comics folk so it’s probably just as well they like it:
"Alec is magic, and even if I knew how all of it was done I'd be doing you a disservice if I pointed out the wires and mirrors. ... It is written by someone who obviously finds being alive an endless source of novelty and conundrum."
– Alan Moore
"Do you need me to tell you how good Eddie Campbell is? Or that Alec is probably the best book-length comic about art and wine and midlife crises and families and friends and wine and love and art and saying goodbye and terror there is?"
– Neil Gaiman
Campbell will be in the Gosh! basement signing and sketching from 2pm to 4pm on November the 7th. Printing delays have meant that his new Pants aren’t going to be out in time – but fear not, we’re having them shipped in especially for the event. Weighing in at a whopping 640 pages at least one thing can be said about it: it’s big and it’s thick.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Due To Arrive 15/10/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Air #14
Angel Vs Frankenstein
Arkham Asylum Living Hell TP New Ptg
Dark Avengers #10
Marvel Adventures Avengers TP Vol 10 Digest
Mighty Avengers #30
Azrael #1
Batman Confidential #35
Batman Streets Of Gotham #5
Batman The Unseen #2 (Of 5)
Beasts Of Burden #2 (Of 4)
Blackest Night Superman #3 (Of 3)
Brave And The Bold #28
Captain America Road To Reborn Prem HC
Chew #5
Citizen Rex #4 (Of 6)
Dark Reign List Hulk One-Shot
DCU Halloween Special 2009 #1
Dominic Fortune #3 (Of 4)
Elephantmen #22
Ex Machina #46
Farscape Gone & Back #4
Final Crisis Aftermath Dance #6 (Of 6)
Frankenstein Mobster TP Vol 1
Freddy Jason Ash Nightmare Warriors #5
Garth Ennis Battlefields HC Vol 1
GI Joe #10
GI Joe Movie Snake Eyes #1
Hellblazer #260
Incredible Hulk #603
Invincible #67
Invincible Iron Man #19
Jonah Hex Lead Poisoning TP
Justice League Of America #38
Last Resort #3
Lockjaw And The Pet Avengers HC
Lone Ranger & Tonto #3
Marvel Holiday Spectacular
Mice Templar Destiny #4
Milo Ventimiglia Presents Berserker #3
Marvel Masterworks Inhumans HC Vol 1 Outsiders #23
Pilot Season Declassified
Power Girl #6
Punisher Noir #3 (Of 4)
Question TP Vol 5 Riddles
Runaways TP Vol 9 Dead Wrong Digest
Savage Tales Of Red Sonja TP
Scalped TP Vol 5 High Lonesome
Showcase Presents House Of Secrets TP Vol 2
Simpsons Comics #159
Skrull Kill Krew #5 (Of 5) DKR
Spawn #195
Amazing Spider-Man #609
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Anti Venom #2
Spider-Woman #2
Spike Omnibus TP
Stand Soul Survivors #1 (Of 5)
Star Trek Mission's End TP
Star Trek Nero #3
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #46
Storming Paradise TP
Strange Adventures Of HP Lovecraft #4 (Of 4)
Sugarshock One-Shot
Supergirl #46
Superman Adventures Of Flamebird & Nightwing TP
Superman Batman #65
Thor Tales Of Asgard By Lee & Kirby #6 (Of 6)
Thunderbolts #137
Tiny Titans #21
Transformers Tales Of The Fallen #3 (Of 5)
Ultimate Comics Armor Wars #2 (Of 4)
Underground #2 (Of 5)
Vigilante #11
War Machine TP Vol 1 Iron Heart
Dark Wolverine #79
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #4
Wolverine Noir Prem HC
Wolverine Origins #41
X-Factor #50
X-Men Legacy #228
Zero Killer #6 (Of 6)
The Gosh! Authority 14/10/09
While you were looking the other way yesterday we posted lots of exciting things on the Gosh! Blog. You might have missed ‘em but it’s nothing a quick scroll of the mouse can’t fix. Here’s a round-up:
The next signing date to mark in your diary is the 24th of October. He of Action Philosophers! and Comic Book Comics fame, Fred Van Lente, will be making a rare UK appearance in the Gosh! basement. He also writes Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies, and Incredible Hercules so be sure to bring all that stuff along to get scribbled on.
Upstairs we’ve got a wall of original Duncan Fegredo art for sale. Some pages come with an extra page of pencils and all of ‘em are from the recent Hellboy: The Wild Hunt. I’ve put scans and prices up over in this post here. Even if you can barely afford a packet of chocolate hobnobs you should get to the shop and marvel at the lack of Tipp-Ex.
Our growing list of Exclusive Bookplate Editions has expanded once more: In late November you’ll be able to get your hands on a copy of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Incognito trade-paperback, complete with a signed and numbered Gosh! bookplate. All details and lovely pictures up here.
Over the weekend Bryan Talbot sat downstairs and happily signed away the afternoon. If you weren’t able to make it you’ll be glad to know we’ve got loads of copies of his brand new hardcover graphic novel Grandville (which he promises is the first in a series of several) signed by the man himself. You’ll find them centre-stage when you next walk in the door.
Of course if you don’t know what I’m talking about you should watch this book trailer and pretend you did all along.
There’s something by almost everyone in this week’s delivery because of the overriding feeling of anthologyness. 
Liberty Comics #2: A CBLDF Benefit Book has dozens of notable names on board and here are some of them: Neil Gaiman and Jim Lee (preview pages here), Jimmy Palmiotti and Jim Rugg, Mike Allred, Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart, Brian Wood (his first new Channel Zero story in several years! Preview at The Beat), Ben McCool and Ben Templesmith, Dave Gibbons doing a Martha Washington thing, Paul Pope, Jason Aaron and loads more. Editor Jamie S. Rich tells you all about it here.
Just like last time, all proceeds from this comic go to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Speaking of which, we’ve just received a bunch of flyers for a play based on the whole Mike Diana fiasco. Busted Jesus Comix plays at London’s Above the Stag theatre in November.
The House of Mystery Halloween Annual has a regular story by the in-House team of Matthew Sturges, Luca Rossi and Jose Marzan Jr along with several other short stories crammed into its 48 pages by this lot: Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, Greek Street), Giuseppe Camunculi (doing a Hellblazer story), Stefano Landini, Matt Wagner, Bill Willingham (doing a Merv Pumpkinhead thing), Mark Buckingham, Kevin Nowlan and more. If that’s not enough to tempt you there’s also a thing about Chris Roberson and Mike Allred’s upcoming series I, Zombie.
ACT-I-VATE Primer HC is another anthology featuring never-before-seen stuff by Dean Haspiel, Nick Bertozzi, Michael Cavallaro, Mike Dawson, Simon Fraser, Michel Fiffe, Tim Hamilton, Ulises Farinas, Leland Purvis, Joe Infurnari, Molly Crabapple, John Leavitt, Pedro Camargo, Jim Dougan, Hyeondo Park, Maurice Fontenot, Jennifer Hayden, and Roger Langridge.
The reliably brilliant Langridge (Fred the Clown) pops up again in The Muppet Show (TP and HC) which for silly legal reasons we couldn’t get as it was coming out issue by issue but we can have as many as we like now it’s a collection. It’s pretty much what it says on the tin only better. Here’s a review of #1.
Same story goes for Mark Waid’s The Incredibles series which is now sitting on our new release shelf. Waid talks about it here and here. Talking of Pixar, go see Up. But don’t wear mascara like what I did.
You are There HC is a graphic novel by Jaques Tardi, last mentioned here on the eve of the release of West Coast Blues. 
You are There is one of the first graphic novels to be published in Europe and this is the first time it’s been available in English.
Punisher Frank Castle MAX #75 is worth a look this week not only because it’s illustrated by Gosh! Favourite Laurence Campbell but also because it’s twice as big as usual. You’ll find stuff by (this post seems a lot like an incredibly long credit sequence but I’m going to do it anyway) Charlie Huston, Ken Lashley, Peter Milligan, Tomm Coker, Gregg Hurwitz, Das Pastoras, Thomas Piccirilli and of course Campbell, plus an 8-page preview of Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon’s PunisherMAX #1. The internets provide you with a preview.
Deadpool #900 is a whopping 104-page special commemorating Deadpool’s 900th issue (which it isn’t). Deep breath, another role call: Jason Aaron, Mike Benson, Charlie Huston, Joe Kelly, Duane Swierczynski, Fred Van Lente (that man again), Kyle Baker, Shawn Crystal, Sanford Green, Rob Liefeld, Chris Staggs, and Dalibor Talijic. And what makes it extra news worthy is the lovely-looking Dave Johnson cover who sadly doesn’t get to do great things on the cover of 100 Bullets anymore. Here’s a preview and here’s all the creators sitting around talking about Deadpool. “The guy’s got mad weapons coming out of his ass. C'mon on!” says Benson.
That’s it for this week but there’s yet more wisdom to impart. Big Hairy Alan Moore is launching a new national magazine – the first underground magazine of the 21st century, so they say – called Dodgem Logic, published by the same chaps who brought you the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibuses. Published every other month, it’s a 40-page full colour wossname about all sorts of things. The first issue features Kevin O'Neill, Savage Pencil, Graham Linehan and Josie Long, as well as two new pages of Mustard comedy stuff. You can read all about it here.
And lastly, here’s three bits of news from DC that you should know:
- The final issue of Wednesday Comics came out a couple of weeks ago and they’ve already unveiled plans for an enormous collection.
- When the Josh Brolin/Megan Fox/John Malkovich Jonah Hex film comes out next year you’ll also have an original Justin Gray/Jimmy Palmiotti/Tony DeZuniga Hex graphic novel to pick up on the way home from the cinema.
- The writers of Blackest Night aren’t just sticking to dead characters – they’re now dredging up old, cancelled series. I wonder what Eddie Campbell would have to say about that.
-- Hayley
In Store 09/10/09 - 15/10/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1657
Judge Dredd Mechanismo TP
Judge Dredd Megazine #290
28 Days Later #3
Act I Vate Primer HC (R. Langridge)
Adventure Comics #3
Air TP Vol 2 Flying Machine
Amelia Rules TP Very Ninja Christmas
Anchor #1 (P. Hester/B. Churilla)
Angel Only Human #3 (Of 4)
Anita Blake VH Guilty Pleasures HC
Anna Mercury 2 #2 (Of 5) (W. Ellis)
Astounding Wolf-Man #19
Batgirl #3
Batman #691
Batman Chronicles TP Vol 8
Batman The Killing Joke New Ptg
Blake & Mortimer: S.O.S. Meteors TP
Detective Comics Annual #11
Blackbeard Legend Of The Pyrate King #1
Blackest Night Batman #3 (Of 3)
Blood And Water TP (J. Winick)
Booster Gold #25
BPRD 1947 #4 (Of 5)
Brooke Bond Classic Tea Card Collections
Clive Barker's Seduth 3-D #1
Comics Revue Presents Oct 2009
Daredevil Return Of King TP
DMZ #46 (Brian Wood)
Dr Who Magazine #414
EC Archives Frontline Combat HC Vol 1
Enders Game Command School #2 Fables #89
Farscape D'argo's Trial #3
Final Crisis Aftermath Escape #6 Galactica 1980 #2
GI Joe Origins #8
G-Man Cape Crisis #3 (Of 5)
Godland #29
Grandville HC (Signed by Bryan Talbot!)
Gravel #14 (Warren Ellis)
Green Arrow Black Canary #25
Green Lantern Corps #41 BN
Groom Lake TP (Ben Templesmith)
Hammer Of The Gods TP Vol 1 Mortal Enemy
Heavy Liquid TP New Ptg (P. Pope)
Hector Plasm Totentatz One-Shot
Hellboy Wild Hunt #7 (Of 8)
Hokusai Demons & Other Tales Of The Fox Mother HC
House Of Mystery Halloween Annual (Allred, Nowlan Et Al)
How Obelix Fell Into The Magic Potion HC
Imposter's Daughter HC
Incredible Hercules #136
Incredibles TP (Mark Waid)
Iron Man Iron Protocols One-Shot
Joe & Azat GN
Jon Sable Freelance Ashes Of Eden #1
JSA Vs Kobra #5 (Of 6)
Justice League Of America When Worlds Collide HC
Kabuki Reflections #15 (D. Mack)
Kull TP Vol 1 Shadow Kingdom
Liberty Comics #2 CBLDF Benefit (Gaiman, Allred, Jim Lee Et Al)
Mangalicious Tick #3 (Of 4)
Marvel 1602 Prem HC New World Fantastick Four
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #16
Marvel Super Hero Squad #2 (Of 4)
Marvel Zombies 4 HC
Marvels Project #3 (Of 8)
Mephisto Vs Prem HC
Muppet Show HC & TP (Langridge)
Nomad Girl Without A World #2 (Of 4)
Perhapanauts Halloween Spooktacular One-Shot
Pride & Prejudice Prem HC
Punisher Frank Castle Max #75
Rebels #9
Red Herring #3 (Of 6)
Red Robin #5
Red Sonja #49
Red Sonja HC Vol 7 Born Again
Runaways Teenage Wasteland TP
Scalped #32 (Jason Aaron)
Search GN
Secret Six #14
Shield #2
Soulfire Volume Two #1
Web Of Spider-Man #1
Star Trek Crew TP
Star Trek Spock Reflections #4
Star Wars Invasion #0 One-Shot
Starscape Presents Dead One-Shot
Super Friends #20
Action Comics #882
Titans #18
Torchwood Magazine #18
Toyfare #148
Transformers All Hail Megatron #16
Trinity TP Vol 3
Unwritten #6 (M. Carey/P. Gross)
Vampirella Second Coming #2
Veil #4
Vinland Saga Of Leif Erikkson GN
Walking Dead #66 (R. Kirkman)
Deadpool #900 (Fred Van Lente, Kyle Baker, Jason Aaron Et Al)
GeNext United #5 (Of 5)
Ultimate Wolverine Vs Hulk HC
Uncanny X-Men #516
Uncanny X-Men First Class #4 (Of 8)
Uncanny X-Men Manifest Destiny TP
X-Men Forever #9
You Are There HC (Jacques Tardi)
MANGA
Akira Kodansha Ed GN Vol 1
Art Of Osamu Tezuka God Of Manga HC
Gantz TP Vol 7
Ghost In Shell Kodansha Ed Vol 1
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Fred Van Lente signing at Gosh! Saturday 24th October
In what’s becoming something of a routine these days we’ve got another signing in our lovely wee Gosh! basement. This time it’s Fred Van Lente in a rare UK appearance on Saturday 24th October, from 3pm-5pm, and we’re very excited to have him.
Van Lente, the award-winning writer of Action Philosophers!, Comic Book Comics, Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies and Incredible Hercules, among numerous other excellent titles, is one of the most exciting writing talents to emerge in the last five years. This will be his only London signing, so take advantage of this rare opportunity to chat with him about his experiences, from making his name on the wonderful Action Philosophers!, through to his current work at Marvel, including his position as one the “Spidey Brain Trust”.
Maybe Andrew will even wear his Plato Smash! T-shirt and we can all look on in quiet envy.
If you can’t make it down, but would like to get a copy of something signed, drop us a line or let someone in the store know.
Original Duncan Fegredo Art at Gosh!
Over the weekend our wall of glorious Golden and Silver Age comics came down to make way for 17 stunning pages of original Duncan Fegredo artwork. All pages are from the recent Hellboy: The Wild Hunt series issues #5, 6 and 7 – and they’re for sale!
Here’s what we’ve got: (Click for a bigger image)
Page 2. £190 (includes pencils)
Page 4. £220. SOLD.
Page 6. £375 (includes pencils)
Page 12. £375 (includes pencils)
Page 14. £285 (includes pencils) SOLD.Hellboy The Wild Hunt #6
Page 4. £250 (includes pencils)
Page 8. £325
Page 9. £325
Page 12. £325
Page 14. £375 (includes pencils) SOLD.
Page 15. £375 SOLD.
Page 16. £475 (includes pencils) SOLD.
Page 17. £450 SOLD.
Page 18. £350Hellboy The Wild Hunt #7
Page 9. £325
Page 10. £375 SOLD.
Page 11. £475If there’s a particular page you’re after that you can’t see here we don’t have it. However, there is hope: according to Fegredo, everything before #5 is with art dealer Mark Hay and everything after that is at home with Fegredo himself (who would like to hold on to some of it). If you’d like to enquire about a specific page we can always send him your details and see what he says. Come in and have a look!
Incognito TP Bookplate Edition - Exclusive to Gosh!
Here at Gosh! we’re big fans of anything Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips do – chances are you’ve asked for a recommendation and we’ve pointed you towards Criminal, their incredibly popular hard-bitten crime series (and so we should! It’s very good). In December their cracking six-issue miniseries Incognito is coming out in trade-paperback. If you missed it despite the umpteen printings here’s how Ed Brubaker describes it:
Incognito is a dark exploration into the nature of good, if that makes any sense. It's about a completely amoral guy with super-powers forced to pretend he's a normal law-abiding citizen, because he's in Witness Protection, and how that shapes what he becomes. It's also a brutal noir twist on the super-hero/super-villain genre that delves more into their roots in the pulps, and it's pretty over-the-top and action-packed.
We’ll have 200 exclusive Gosh! Bookplate Editions signed by Brubaker and Phillips going for the cover price of £13.50. We’ll warn you now they won’t hang around for long so get your reservations in, stat! Due late November.