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The Gosh! Authority » Gosh! London – the Culture of Comics — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:21:36 +0000

[...] Jeff Lemire’s a recognisable name these days but before Essex County or Animal Man brought him to the attention of most people in the shop there was a 104-page graphic novel called Lost Dogs. It began in the mid-2000s in a failed attempt to do the 24-Hour Comic Challenge – Lemire only got a dozen or so pages done, but he finished a month later, bagged a Xeric Grant and was able to print 700 copies. It’s been completely out of print since then (barring some electronic version last year which doesn’t count), but this week we’ve shifted some stuff out of the way to make space for it. “Things are brutal, things are tragic, and people are cruel. It’s a 100-page punch to the gut,” says iFanboy in their review (here, have another). [...]

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