Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2018 July 13 • Friday

Today might be Friday the 13th but we have good luck! I refer to our copy of the new Coin-Op Comics Anthology 1997–2017.

I'm pretty sure there's nothing in here that I didn't already have. Maybe some of the issues of Blab! but, who knows, they might be in this apartment somewhere. I certainly read them and did own them at some point, even if they're no longer with me.

And there probably isn't much for me to say about this since I think Gutbrain has managed to praise every issue of Coin-Op as it came out.

But if you don't know about Coin-Op, Peter Hoey and Maria Hoey's beautiful blend of narrative, design, art, storytelling, research, reference, daydreams, music, movies, monsters, comics, style, basically a massive portion of the potential of the comics medium, then here's your chance to immerse yourself.

And this time around you don't even have to order it from your website. You can get it from Amazon and also at actual bookstores in the real world.

I was determined to pick up mine from the first really cool place I walked into, and so it happend that last week I got a copy (signed by Maria Hoey) at Quimby's in Chicago, one of the coolest cool places in the world.

But where you get it matters a bit less than getting it does. Buy this book!