The saga of Phonogram’s splendid T-shirt fail of San Diego 2009 is over. You can now order the new Phonogram T-shirts from Khepri. They look like this…

A mere twenty dollars each, plus postage. Fine for the yanks. To actually get to the UK, that’s actually fifteen dollars. Oof. But…

1) With the exchange rate, it’s actually about what you’ll be paying for a T-shirt at a gig. As in, between fifteen and twenty quid or so.
2) You can apparently order 4 shirts and get the same postage, so if you know other Phonofans who want one, you can band together.

Of course, Khepri also stocks lost of other splendid stuff at cheap rates which you could order as well. Hell, pick up everything Jamie’s done.

Anyway - 150 in existence, go gets.

In other news, Jamie did something which you may be interested in. He’s cut up the first four issues of Phonogram and arranged them in chronological order on his wall. It looks like this…

Which is quite the picture of a nervous breakdown in progress. It isn’t quite perfect, but it’s as close as you can get without actually cutting the pages into individual panels. Since each story is a single subjective story, there’s some bendy time-isms. You’ll notice one page has been cut in two - it’s where there’s a particularly deceptive long jump. Another one Jamie could have done, but wasn’t as essentially is Penny sitting at the end of the corridor to the toilets, which lasts ten minutes or so. And pretty much every time someone goes on the dancefloor, they stay for more than one song.

The reason Jamie’s done this is so he can trace people in the background, and work out which of the crowd is where at any particular point. He’s as mad as I am.

A few other pieces of news related to Phonogram. Various of the B-side artists have exciting new comics periodicals for you to buy. Leigh Gallagher, who you’ll know from Kid-with-knife’s telling of Rue Britannia in Issue 3, has a trade of his 2000 AD series Defoe: 1666 available. Renaissance zombie action, basically, and totally glorious. Emma Viceli, who you’ll know from her Indie-Dave Wuthering Heights loveliness in issue 2 has done a Manga Shakespeare version of Measure for Measure, which you can get here. And finally, Marc Ellerby - of the Seth Bingo/Silent Girl wedding disco in issue 1 - has both successfully aged another year and got his minicomics back in stock. Well done he.