De Profundis UK Special Edition Now Available

The 20 UK special editions of De Profundis are available now from the Amos Store. (It's a lucky dip - you can't choose which page of artwork you receive with the book, but they're all pretty good!)

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De Profundis at the Amos Store

On Friday October 14th the new James Jarvis book, De Profundis, will be available for sale on through the Amos Online Store.

 The store will also have some copies of a special edition. This comes with a signed original black and white brush and ink drawing from the book. There are just 60 of these available worldwide and we will have 20 for sale at the Amos Store on a first come first serve basis.

 The price for this edition of the book with drawing is £95.00. Strictly one copy per person of the special edition.

De Profundis

James is very pleased to announce his new graphic novel, De Profundis, published by PictureBox of Brooklyn, USA.

A PictureBox special edition is on sale now. This is a limited edition of 20: De Profundis accompanied by a randomly selected original drawing from the book itself. You can buy the PictureBox editions here.

The Amos Stores in the UK and Japan will also each have 20 special editions up for sale later this month, making a total of 60 worldwide. More details on the Amos editions soon.

The wood is YOD!

Following on from our post on June 24th we now have more information on the wood YOD. These were made by our Japanese licensee, One Gram, and interior design company, Landscape Products.

They are beautifully hand carved from polished solid beech and come in separate parts which join using steel magnets. They are produced in Japan so as you would imagine the quality is excellent. The edition is very small, only 30 pieces worldwide.

They sold out instantly when they went on sale in Japan. Due to their high price and scarcity we have only been able to get a tiny quantity for Europe from which we will have just 5 available for sale through store.amostoys.com. From this Saturday we will be offering these to Gold store members. Details will be emailed soon.

Unfortunately we do not expect to be able to offer the wood YOD for sale to any other membership level.

Online AMPW store now open to all

Shop here at store.amostoys.com. At the time of writing there was one of the special edition Caleb's Adventures in Wonderlean comic book, still available. This very exclusive set has the comic with a one off James Jarvis hand painted cover and a 2 piece Caleb figure set with plain t-shirts (as in the strip). This is the last one available of this very limited edition of 16!



There are still a handful of James Jarvis drawings available from the 2011 gallery shop.



And please check the Wisdom of Caleb blog for the recent strips based on reader contributions. We will get the personalised original line drawings out to the contributors soon. It's not too late to send us your suggestions and receive your own dedicated hand drawn strip. Details here.

Thanks to all those who have already shopped at the store and JJ's Gallery. As always your support is very much appreciated.

Home of Metal

On Thursday afternoon James and I made the trip up to Birmingham for the opening of a major exhibition at Birmingham Museum. Home of Metal is based on the city's undeniable links with the birth and propagation of Heavy Metal. The exhibition is curated by the wonderful women at Capsule, longtime local music promoters and organisers of the excellent Supersonic music festival. It covers the rise of Black Sabbath through to the birth of Grindcore, and all inbetween. The attention to detail is excellent and the execution is super slick. We thoroughly recommend making the effort to check this out if you get the opportunity.



The meagre Amos contribution to the Home of Metal exhibition.




JJ with his more considerable contribution to the event. This was taken from a cover he drew for the Face Magazine, back from who know's when.




Part of the excellent Grindcore/Anarcho Crust exhibit, dealing with the birth of the genre in the early 1980s. This is largely created from a small selection of Napalm Death founder member, Nic Bullen's personal collection. This includes actual photos, letters, original scribbled lyrics and Punk/Anarchist 'zines he both collected and worked on at the time, together with Miles Ratledge (another Napalm Death founder member).




Nik Napalm himself, probably slightly confused by my gushing enthusiasm for his contribution to the exhibition.




Kriz and Zip, Birmingham skateboard legends, owners of long running West Midlands institution Ideal Skates, and all-round top blokes. They are pictured here in front of a 1980s scene from the Mermaid, a venue they regularly frequented in its heyday. They may well have been at this particular show.

Wooden YOD business...

Contrary to what has been written on other blogs our online store (store.amostoys.com) will not have these for sale on July 2nd. However they will go on sale through the Japanese Amos online store from that date and it will be possible to buy direct from Japan.

However, we will be getting some sent to Europe, from Japan, for our online store, but not many as they are very expensive. We'll post full information here as soon as we have it.