It's the tastiest puppet show around.

Borscht, the travelling vegetable theatre, is back with a performance of Eugene Onionegin, a suitcase-sized tribute to Pushkin's classic novel, followed by soup.

You can see them tonight at 8.30pm at the Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton. It's part of Luxury Goods, a free art festival.

The vegetables' first ever performance is featured in our first issue.

It comes as a surprise that more people haven't discovered this. I expect they will, and quickly, so I can take a certain amount of pleasure in declaring that you've heard it here first.

I despair at trying to describe music without coming across as a completely pretencious jackass, as I feel that something which is so fundamentally, err, sonic, should be listened to and not discussed. But I shall attempt it.

Okay, so you're on a small boat which is made out of leaves and sticks, and it's being captained by a cat in a hat, and you're sailing down a river at night, and the river looks silver in the glow of the moon. There are definitely trees around this river. The moon is full, and on the moon a man is sitting and playing a guitar. The man on the moon is Jack Sebastian Northover.

Cutting edge music journalism, that is.

Listen to it here.

Have a look at the Scottish artist Georgia Russell's take on Ernst Gombrich's 'The Story of Art'. She's turned the 600 pages or so of this famous text into a beautiful object.

Russell's uncanny knack for turning books into 3D creatures is curious and brilliant. She's even begun using bell jars to display her sculptures, where they hang under the glass like pieces of taxidermy. Apparently Russell first started using books as an art material when she lived in Paris as a student, collecting them from booksellers along the river Seine. She's not stopped and the results are ever more enchanting.

Russell's work was recently on display in Slash: Paper under the knife at The Museum of Art and Design in New York. The show included pieces by another British artist Su Blackwell who also uses books as sculptural material. Blackwell's quirky book sculptures turn the flat page into miniature theaters. Cutting birds, beasts and fairy-tale characters into the page she brings the printed tale to animated life.

Whoever thought books could be made into abandoned cottages and exotic beings?

"Getting To Know Me and My Toes" is a stop-motion based short by Joseph Mann, a talented young animator & illustrator from Glasgow. Everything about this animation is delightful, from Joseph's nuzzling painted feet, to the playful acoustic soundtrack, to his confession of not building enough snowmen in his life.

Getting to know me and my toes from Joseph Mann on Vimeo.

Joseph also has a knack for creating elaborate, tiny sets for his films - have a look at the video he made for Glaswegian band Findo Gask for their song 'One Eight Zero'. We're thoroughly charmed by his clips and look forward to seeing what else he comes up with. Visit Joseph's website for more of his work, including a lovely animation about a very tall giraffe.

Well here we are. After months of writing, drawing and potato stamping, we've succeeded in dreaming up a brand new magazine. With the gung-ho attitude of ‘how hard can it be?’ (a ha. Folly of youthful optimism) we have arrived on your desktop. And we’re glad to meet you.

Oh Comely will be arriving in the form of a flat tree, to all good stockists at the end of May, but until that exciting day, we invite you to pick up a cupcake and a strong cup of tea and indulge yourself in our blog. We’ll be covering lots of nice stuff here, from illustrators to fashion to music to … well, anything else that tickles our cockles and warms your stove. So to speak. So from all of us at Oh Comely, a warm hello and let this be the start of something beautiful.