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So what are you doing this Saturday?
Posted: August 12, 2011
Orbital and Gosh!, two great neighbouring comics emporia in central London, are putting on some appealing free events tomorrow, Saturday August 13th.
You can drop by Orbital between 1 and 5pm and catch their Zine Swap session, where you can sample and exchange zines from all over the world and watch or take part in creating a zine on the day.
After that, you could amble over to nearby Gosh! in their palatial, expanded premises and celebrate the London launch party from 6-9pm with drinks and nibbles for Luke Pearson‘s breakthrough graphic novella from Nobrow, Everything We Miss, which I’ve just rave-reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement and an upcoming article on this site. Luke will happily sign and dedicate your copies and lucky buyers can also pick up a limited-edition Pearson poster while stocks last.
Luke has been a busy boy elsewhere, designing cool characters and backgrounds for The End, a free, online web-game commissioned by Channel 4 Education designed to get teenagers talking about what happens at the end of life, released this month. Pearson’s graphics fit perfectly with the game’s metaphysical themes and philosophical questions, exploring a range of commonly (or less commonly) held views about death, belief and science. After the recent riots and looting in UK cities, this is the sort of game that might help people think more deeply about life, death and adulthood. As one 14 year-old schoolboy from Thomas Tallis School in Blackheath commented: “The questions are great - other games are afraid to ask questions like that, and it makes you think about life instead of just shooting things.” The End is produced by award-winning games studio Preloaded with Tom Chatfield (author of Fun INC), Nigel Warburton (creator of the successful Philosophy Bites podcasts) and an original score composed by Phonotheque.
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