Review for this very soon, but Nobrow passed over these images from the new Luke Pearson book; Everything We Miss and I couldn’t resist sharing.
Pearson’s star has risen very quickly in comics, we first noticed him here on the blog with a strip submitted for the Cape Graphic Short Fiction Prize 2009, and have followed his progress since, whether it was work on The Stool Pigeon, Solipsistic Pop or Paper Science.
He seems to have found a publishing home at Nobrow, with a strip in their Graphic Cosmogony anthology swiftly followed by the practically perfect little Hildafolk. Now we have Everything We Miss, which looks great:
From the PR: Luke Pearson’s latest comic book is, as the title suggests, a compendium of the things that we happen to miss when something else seemingly more important comes along. Here are a few of the humorous situations covered…
“On the dusky horizon, a pine tree does a short jig. Nobody sees.”
“As he checks himself over, the man misses the lump on his testicle and at that very same moment he misses the parade of the dead, stood at the end of his drive and looking up at his bedroom window.”
“- He misses the girl looking him up and down. If he knew what was going through her head he’d be saved. - She misses the several tentative glances thrown her way by the man on her other side. - That man misses the company of the girl he met here that one time, but however often he hangs around optimistically he knows that he’ll never recreate that night with anyone else. - Submerged in thick nostalgia, he misses that girl sneak past with her new lover, which suits her just fine.”
Everything We Miss is published 10th July. Pearson’s next work for Nobrow Press will be the Hilda And The Midnight Giant hardcover, and he’s part of Blank Slate’s Nelson anthology, both books out in November.
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