Spinning a Phonogram

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie are looking to get the word out about their upcoming Image book, Phonogram. They started by creating a "B-side" strip that online folks could link to, but now they're looking for some help in the offline world as well:

You may have seen the B-side McKelvie and I released to introduce our Phonogram to the world. Many people have linked to it and passed it around, and this makes us happy. It’s a strange emotion, we’re both unfamiliar with but are enjoying it. It’s a little like being drunk, but cheaper and you look prettier in the morning. We recommend it heartily.

However we’re not happy with our tyranny of a domain that purely exists in 1s and 0s in the mind of a pre-sentient AI in Hamburg.

To that end, I returned from my local printer yesterday with a couple of surprisingly-heavy boxes full of postcards advertising Phonogram, each one sporting the B-side strip. Now we want to get them into the hands of people.

This is where you come in.

While we're planning to get the postcards to local comic shops directly, for our initial sending out we'd like to stay true to our punky fanzine roots and get other humans involved.

Basically, do you have a local comic shop you enter regularly? Would you be willing to take a small pile of these lovely objects d'art in and ask the proprietor to have on the counter? Do you wish to join arms in a grand fraternity of Phonogam and chant to our dark and nameless Gods?

If the answers to all of the above are yes, drop me a line at Kieron dot Gillen at Gmail dot com and I'll get the little parcel in the post to you.

Check out the Phonogram blog for more information.