Top selling comics at Pitkämies June 09

1. Jeff Lint: The Caterer
2. Ville Pirinen: Yhesti yhes paikas
3. Ville Ranta: Eräänlaisia Rukouksia
4. Marko Turunen: Ufoja Lahdessa 3
5. Alan Moore: League of extraordinary gentlemen III: Century 1
6. Emmi Valve: Femme Fatale
7 Mitch Clem: Nothing Nice to say
8. Derf: Punkrock and trailerparks
9. Florent Ruppert ja Jerome Mulot: Uhkapeliä
10. Lilli Carré: Nine ways to disappear

Kuningas Toffee

Here's a snoop for you all: Kuningas Toffee will be transformed into a theatre play!

I don't know anything about the specifics but here's what i have heard so far (from a reliable source, namely Aapo Rapi himself): Kellariteatteri will perform the play based on the Kuningas Toffee comic some time in the fall. It is not yet on their website but apparently the screenplay is already finished.

The story will also unfold in the same way as the revamped comic: two characters will unearth the ancient scrolls that tell the tale of the cruel sugartooth King Toffee. When they read the content of the scrolls, it will be shown on stage whilest the two narrative characters will comment the events and acting.

This sounds like a pretty nice excuse to finally go to the theatre for me and i am hoping the same for all of you!


edit: Aapo just finished his Kuningas Toffee shirt, he printed it himself, so that means there is only a limited amount available...

Best selling comics at Pitkämies in May 2009

1. Aikakauslehti 2
2. Jupu: Baarien Nainen
3. Ville Pirinen: Yhesti yhes paikas
4. Jeff Lint: The caterer
5. Derf: Punkrock and trailerparks
6. Roju: Huonoa seksia
7. Folman/Polonsky: Waltz with Bashir
8. Alan Moore: League of Extraordinary gentlemen III: The century
9. Lynda Barry: What it is
10. Jeffrey Brown: Funny Misshapen body
11. Pertti Jarla: Fingerpori 2
12. Karstein Volle: 100 tosiasiaa maailmailta


note: this goes to show how erratic sales at Pitkämies are: only two titles are two months in a row in the top "ten"list: Ville Pirinen and Karstein Volle....

Best selling comics at Pitkämies in April 2009

1. Ville Ranta: Eräänlaisia rukouksia
2. Ville Pirinen: Yhesti yhes paikas
3. Alan Moore: The watchmen
4. Ruppert/Mulot: Uhkapeliä
5. Jeffrey Brown: Cat getting out of a bag and other observations
6. Lilli Carré: The lagoon
7. GlömpX
8. Yong-Deuk Kwon: Yölinja
9. Kaija Papu: Totally Sweet Love Awesomeness
10. Karstein Volle: 100 tosiasiaa maailmalta

Sarjakuvakeskus received the Unelmien Helsinki award!

Awesome news: Sarjakuvakeskus (which consists of Pitkämies, Kuti Kuti and the Finnish Comics Society) received the yearly Unelmien Helsinki award which is organised by Radio Helsinki and Nyt-liite. Here's what they say:

"Tänä vuonna Unelmien Helsinki -palkinnon saa Kalliossa sijaitseva Sarjakuvakeskus, jossa toimivat Suomen Sarjakuvaseura ja levy- ja vaatekauppa Pitkämies. Kolmannen linjan on kulttuurikeskuksessa järjestetään muun muassa sarjakuvanäyttelyitä ja -työpajoja. ”Paikka on saanut Helsinki-vihani laantumaan edes hieman”, totesi palkintoa ehdottanut kaupunkilainen. ”Liike tarjoaa kalliolaisille kauan kaivatun olohuoneen, jossa voi viettää aikaa kuluttamatta rahaa tai miettimättä, uskaltaako sinne otta lapset mukaan. Liikkeeseen ovat kaikki tervetulleita eikä siellä viihtyäkseen tarvitse kuulua sisäpiiriin.”


Together with the Fingerpori exhibition, this will surely bring some new people to Pitkämies!
Also, i am already gloating so i can say at the award: "It would be nice to get you lazy "Punavuorelaisia" to Kallio now and then, it's not such a big distance"

Because i have noticed that basically all people who visit the store live around Kallio. I haven't seen too many Radio Helsinki journalist coming over, to be honest. Maybe it's time to change that attitude!

For the rest, it's all awesome ofcourse


edit: here's a pic of the award. A video later

Pitkämies featured in Voima lehti

To be more precise: in this article








If there's any questions about the sweater: i bought it at a fleamarket in Estonia about 5 years ago during what was probably the coldest holiday i ever had. -30 degrees for over a week, and then taking a boat through the frozen seas to some Estonian islands. Best vacation ever!

Top hundred best selling at Pitkämies this year

1. Nissinen, Jyrki: Kaikki vierailuni Italialaisessa kodissa
2. Nissinen, Jyrki: Borgtron 08
3. Sailamaa, Anna: Ollaan nätisti
4. Laitinen, Karri: Kafkan Tutti
5. Hanks, Fletcher: I shall destroy all civilised planets
6. Tiitu: Jää
7. Nissinen, Jyrki: Yli 10 000 Koiran Koiranäyttely
8. Rapi, Aapo: Meti
9. Burns, Charles: Black Hole
10. Miller, Frank: Yön ritari
11. Rapi, Aapo: Kuningas Toffee
12. Schrauwen, Olivier: Poika Kulta
13. Brown, Jeffrey: Haparointia
14. Nissinen, Jyrki: Borgtron 9
15. Vähämäki, Amanda: Äitienpäivä
16. Delisle, Guy: Shenzhen
17. Ranta, Ville: Kajaani
18. Satrapi, Marjane: Embroideries
19. Delisle, Guy: Merkintöjä Burmasta
20. Jodorowsky & Moebius: Incal
21. Nissinen, Jyrki: Nuolee kuin eläin sipsiä
22. Tukiainen, Katja: Rusina
23. Turunen, Marko: Ufoja Lahdessa
24. Ware, Chris: Acme Novelty Library 18
25. Ware, Chris: Jimmy Corrigan, the smartest kid on earth
26. Bergman, Benjamin: Troll on
27. Latva-Nikkola, Jarno: Tunteiden Maisteri
28. Mordan, Rutu: Exit wounds
29. Bagge, Pete: Buddy does Seattle
30. Canales, Diaz: Blacksad 2
31. Carré. Lilli: Korpi-Peten kootut
32. Harkham, Sammy: Crickets 2
33. Magnolia, Mike: Hellboy, pimeyden kutsu
34. Nissinen, Jyrki: Borgtron 03
35. Nissinen, Jyrki: Kiimaiset maantiesuolan imeskelijät
36. Lutes, Jason: Berlin book two, city of smoke
37. Rapia, Kati: Miracle Baby
38. Clowes, Daniel: Ghostworld
39. Florent Ruppert/ Jérôme Mulot: Apinatarha
40. Jason: I killed Adolf Hitler
41. Prince, Liz: Will you still love me if i wet the bed?
42. Thompson, Craig: Blankets
43. Tomine, Adrian: Shortcomings
44. Brinkman, Matt: Teratoid Heights
45. Brown, Jeffrey: Be a man
46. Delisle, Guy: Pyong Yang, a journey through North Korea. Paperback
47. Harkham, Sammy: Crickets 1
48. Jansson, Tove: Moomin, the complete Tove Jansson strip, volume 1
49. King Nosmo: Kulttuurilehti Esteban
50. Moore, Alan: The Watchmen
51. Nilsen, Anders: Dogs and water
52. Bagge, Pete: Hate annual 07
53. Brown, Jeffrey: Every girl is the end of the world to me
54. Canales, Diaz: Blacksad 1
55. Carré. Lilli: Dorado Park
56. Clowes, Daniel: Caricature
57. Gauld, Tom: Three Very Small Comics volume II
58. Gauld, Tom: Three Very Small Comics volume III
59. Koljonen, Hanna: Nirvana
60. Martin, Jacques: Alix: Spartacuksen poika
61. Moore, Alan: From Hell
62. Rope, Jenni: Wednesday
63. Satrapi, Marjane: Persepolis boxed set
64. Thompson, Craig: Carnet de voyage
65. Vähämäki, Amanda: Souvlaki Circus
66. Bagge, Pete: Buddy does Jersey
67. Bagge, Pete: Hate annual 06
68. Barry, Lynda: What it is
69. Brown, Jeffrey: I am going to be small
70. Brown, Jeffrey: Unlikely
71. Clowes, Daniel: David Boring
72. Cotter, Joshua: Skyscrapers of the midwest
73. Gauld, Tom: Robots, Monsters etc
74. Hayashi, Seiichi: Red Colored Elegy
75. Miller, Frank: Sin City
76. Oliba, Tsugumi & Obata, Takeshi: Death Note 01
77. Rapi, Aapo: Kelomökien mies
78. Schrauwen, Olivier: My Boy
79. Turunen, Marko: Lihat puntarissa
80. Yokoyama, Yuichi: New Engineering
81. B., David: Epileptic
82. Bagge, Pete: Hate annual 04
83. Bagge, Pete: Hate annual 1
84. Bechdel, Allison: Fun Home
85. Brown, Chester: I never liked you
86. Brown, Jeffrey: Any easy intimacy (AEIOU)
87. Burns, Charles: Big Baby
88. Clowes, Daniel: Ice Haven
89. Cole, Allison: Never Ending Summer
90. Gauld, Tom: Hunter and Painter
91. Glömp: Glömp 9
92. Hanawa, Kazuichi: Doing Time
93. Jacobs, Edgar: Blake and Mortimer: Mystery of the great pyramid 1
94. Lutes, Jason: Berliini
95. Nilsen, Anders: Monologues for the coming plague
96. Nilsen, Anders: Sisyfos
97. Nissinen, Jyrki: Yli 10000 koiran koiranättely
98. Rall, Ted: To Afghanistan and back
99. Ranta, Ville: Isi on vähän väsynyt
100. Ranta, Ville: Sade
101. Tatsumi, Yoshihiro: Goodbye
102. Tatsumi, Yoshihiro: The Pushman and other stories
103. Tikkanen, Petteri: Kanerva ja yks juttu
104. Tolppanen, Petri & Kaakinen, Jussi: Sarasvatin hiekaa
105. Turunen, Marko: Supernormal
106. V/A: Japan


as a first immediate comment: that's a lot of Jyrki Nissinen!