{"id":8495,"date":"2010-04-22T15:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8495"},"modified":"2010-03-24T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:10:49","slug":"brookes-gareth-editor-publish-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8495","title":{"rendered":"Brookes, Gareth (editor) – Publish You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If anybody out there is curious about the current state of small press comics in the UK (and shame on you if you’re not), this is as good a place to start as any.\u00c2\u00a0 Gareth is one of many people involved in putting this thing together, but it goes up on his page because… well, I don’t have a particularly good reason.\u00c2\u00a0 Mostly it’s just to draw attention to his comics one more time, as they are one of the genuinely good things in this world.\u00c2\u00a0 So how about this anthology?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s in color (except for the pieces that stuck with black and white), the pages are numbered and there’s a solid table of contents, so there goes any chance I had of bitching about the production values.\u00c2\u00a0 This book is right around 80 pages but it feels longer than that.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe that’s a compliment.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories in here include the tale of angry freakish neighbors by Steve Tilotson, some of the lies we’ve always been told by Gareth, Edd Baldry finding out that walking to work in the snow is no better than riding a bike, Mickey Lam cramming the story of Falun Gong in China today into two pages, Zarina Liew with an adorable piece about mime speed dating, cheerful suicide by Enrico Ariis, Scott Jason Smith deals with old poisoned candy, Saban Kazim lays out the relentless side of peer pressure, Sina Shamsavari gets into the awkwardness of running into an ex long after the breakup (and what to do if they “don’t recognize you”), and Richard Cowdry proves that bringing up comics in conversation with the opposite sex doesn’t always result in them running off in the opposite direction.\u00c2\u00a0 As always, I’m skipping plenty of stuff in this book that should probably be mentioned, but that’s where you come in.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re as curious as you should be you’ll check out that website, and if you’re even more curious you’ll just go ahead and buy the damned thing.\u00c2\u00a0 This, of course, will mean that I’ve done my job, such as it is.\u00c2\u00a0 The price is in that funny foreign currency that’s actually worth more than “real” money these days (as American dollars are powered by our imagination at this point) so let’s say… $13?<\/p>\n

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