Filed under: Phonogram: The Singles Club
At last.
Here’s the whole first chapter of the comic. Please link as widely as you wish. Penny needs her audience. Each page shows individually, and you simply click to advance.
What’s the Singles Club? Is it any good? Well, here’s what we put together for the blurb…
Has a song ever changed your life?
Did you ever wonder how?
Kieron Gillen (Thor, S.W.O.R.D.) and Jamie McKelvie (Suburban Glamour, Siege: Loki) return to their critically acclaimed urban fantasy, where every song is a spell and every gig a chance for magical misadventure. The Single Club describes one night at a club and traces seven individual-yet-interconnected stories of an evening gone right and wrong.
It’s a night you’ll never forget.
Phonogram: The Singles Club collects all seven of the Singles Club stories, plus a new glossary, covers gallery and copious “Making Of…” material.
“Ambitious and beautiful, Phonogram is a magnificent piece of work. File it next to your favourite albums. ” - Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, Freakangels, RED)
“Every issue of Phonogram feels like a lovingly crafted mixtape from a best friend. What could possibly be better than that?” - Eddie Argos (Art Brut)
“This is my favorite comic. ” - Matt Fraction (Casanova, The Invincible Iron Man)
“My Desert Island Comic. Music to my eyes.” - Gareth Campesinos! (Los Campesinos!)
“This is the beauty of Phonogram: that it can illuminate that power that music has over all of us” - Gavin Lees, The Comic Journal.
“It should already be clear by now, but let’s get the formalities out of the way: this series of Phonogram is nothing short of brilliant.” - James Hunt, Comic Book Resources
“Phonogram is great comics… there’s nothing else like it.” - Kyle Garret, Comics Bulletin
And here’s four more we wanted on the back cover, but didn’t have room for…
“Just when I think I can’t love this comic any more, Gillen and McKelvie set out to prove me wrong.”- Sarah Jaffe, Newsarama
“We’re past the point with Phonogram where it can really be judged by any sort of normal critical standard.” - Seb Patrick, Comics Daily
“Image isn’t putting out a more consistently awesome series.” - Jesse Schedeen, IGN
“This comic is a holy book, a magical thing offering redemption and the tools to unbury meaning from the poorest of territories.” - Bobsy, Mindless Ones
If you want to buy, it’s available from your local comic shop from today if you’re in the US or tomorrow if you’re in the UK. Due to the comic slipping, it’s currently not available to order from Amazon, but there’s other fine online retailers willing to take your money. If you’re in the US, you can order from Khepri or you can get it from Midtown. If you’re in the UK, try Forbidden Planet or dropping a mail to Page 45.
As almost certainly the whole comic universe will know by now, it’s been a battle getting to this, but it’s something Jamie and I are ridiculously proud of. To be momentarily melodramatic, it’s the single best thing I’ve ever been involved with and if I died tomorrow, I’d be fine with it. I got the chance to do this.
Thanks to everyone. It’s been fun. And hell. But also fun.