Winners Announced!

Comic Artists In Our Window Revealed!

Please See Bottom Of The Blog!

Ooooooh!

Would you look at our spanking new window!

This is the new-look Page 45: a complete overhaul designed by Jonathan and put into practise by J-Lo himself and our very own Dominique Kidd.

  

Philippa Rice’s three-month installation – the first time we have ever allowed someone else inside out window – was a startling sorbet which attracted squeals of public delight.

But this has been fermenting in Jonathan’s noggin for well over two years: a simple, stunning template, rich in information, that can be adapted month after month and yes, believe it or not, for the first time ever it features physical copies of real graphic novels.

Why? Also: What Took You So Long?

Things have changed. In the Page 45 interviews we gave during our first fifteen years I emphasised that our windows featured not comics themselves but three-dimensional constructs inspired by them, in order to lure in an unsuspecting public.

But, in the UK, comics have since transcended the stigmatic preconceptions formerly attached to them due to sager broadsheet coverage, the Guardian First Book Award, the British Comic Awards, the Costa Book Award, and the tireless efforts of the more discerning comicbook retailers. Also the quality and diversity of the graphic novels themselves: we owe it all to the comicbook creators.

The shift in perception in Nottingham is such that year Page 45 won the first ever British Independent Retailer Award as judged by the captains of local industry. If those suited and booted approve, then we have arrived!

(No, I didn’t need their approval, either, but it’s lovely to have it.)

A Little Competition Is Healthy!

In fact, it’s downright exciting, so here is our new prize competition. I want to see everyone peering manically into our window, even if you smear it a little. You could wear gloves.

1. Name five of the artists featured on Dominique’s two monoliths and three winners drawn out of the hat will receive £5 Page 45 Gift Vouchers (physical) or £5 Page 45 Gift Vouchers (virtual)!

2. Name ten of the artists featured on Dominique’s two monoliths and two winners will receive £10 Page 45 Gift Vouchers (physical) or £10 Page 45 Gift Vouchers (virtual) !

3. Name twenty of the artists featured on Dominique’s two monoliths and one ridiculously well informed winner will receive a £20 Page 45 Gift Voucher (physical) or a £20 Page 45 Gift Voucher (virtual)!

It will be your choice which vouchers you receive: physical or for online shopping. I didn’t even know we did 50 quid online gift vouchers until typing this blog tonight!

Competition Rules

Rules are rubbish andI break so many on principle. However.

Entry is free! Which is neat.

Entries must be sent in via email (page45@page45.com) or handed in on the shop floor. You can grab pen and paper from behind the counter, but remember to pop some contact info on those, please! Also: do not send entries in via Twitter, although please do retweet! We need physical copies or those we can print out, pop in that hat and contact you later. Simples! *shoots self in head*

This Bit’s Exciting!

All entries for the twenty artists will be drawn first. Those that don’t make it will also be included in the draw for the ten artists. Those that don’t make it for the twenty artists or ten artists will also be included for the five artists. It’s only fair! But even if you can only name five artists, you still stand a chance. Three chances!

And there’s no reason you can’t do a little sneaky research inside, heh heh.

All entries will be pulled out of a hat by former Page 45 window wonder Philippa Rice herself, so there is no sort of bias. (We haven’t told her that yet.)

Deadline: February 28^th 2013.

Have Some More Pictures

Dominique and I popped the window up on Friday night and we shot some slightly blurry snaps then. Still, it glows beautifully although it looks infinitely snazzier in realy life.

I think Jonathan deserves a round of applause. It’s radically different but ever so Page 45.

– Stephen

             

The Artists Above And Below!

As far as Dominique can recall and we can discern, these are her monolith’s featured sources and artists: 

Fluffy – Simone Lia
Phonogram –  Jamie McKelvie
Beanworld – Larry Marder
Rachel Rising  – Terry Moore
Scott Pilgrim – Brian Lee OMalley
Wasteland – Carla Speed McNeil
Wasteland – Christopher Mitten
Everything Is Its Own Reward – Paul Madonna
Blankets – Craig Thompson
GNBCC – Seth
A Distant Neighbourhood – Jiro Tanaguchi
Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
Vagabond  – Takehiko Inoue
Kabuki –  David Mack
Milk and Cheese  – Evan Dorkin
DMZ – Brian Wood (he is an artist, yes)
Cerebus – Dave Sim & Gerhard
Uzumaki –  Junji Ito
Acme Novelty Library – Chris Ware
Krazy Kat & Ignatz  – Herriman
Peanuts – Charles Schultz 

The Winners!

Thanks to everyone who entered! Almost everyone who entered correctly identified Bryan Lee O’Malley, Simone Lia, Dave Sim and Craig Thompson. In lieu of a hat (we appear to have no hats), MY CARDBOARD LIFE’s Philippa Rice drew the winners out of an opaque paper bag while independent adjudicator, EVERYTHING WE MISS’s Luke Pearson, looked solemnly on. 

£20 Page 45 Gift Voucher goes to Chris Powell
£10 Page 45 Gift Voucher goes to Leigh Hobson
£10 Page 45 Gift Voucher goes to Dan Pawley
£5 Page 45 Gift Voucher goes to Brian Manton
£5 Page 45 Gift Voucher goes to Duncan Wilson
£5 Page 45 Gift Voucher goes to Lee Glanville 

We have your email addresses and will be contacting you shortly, cheers! 

 – Stephen

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