Tag Archive | "Top Shelf"

Top Shelf super sale

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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We don’t normally point readers to another comics site to buy their titles (obviously we’d like to point you to our own site!), but this is pretty special – our chums at one of the best independent comics publishers around, Top Shelf, are having a huge sale to help give their coffers a good push [...]

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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century 1969 …. Somewhere in here I get to reviewing it.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century: 1969 By Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill Knockabout / Top Shelf Hmmm, this review was meant to appear before Century 1969 came out. Except, had I have written it after just reading 1969, with Moore and O’Neill’s reduced team of Extraordinary Gentlemen in swinging, psychedelic London, it would [...]

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Self-image, relationships, life – Debeurme’s astonishing Lucille

Thursday, August 4, 2011

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Lucille By Ludovic Debeurme Top Shelf Lucille, the 544-page graphic novel by French artist/writer/singer Ludovic Debeurme, has recently been translated into English and published by Top Shelf. It arrives with an impressive pedigree: it was released in France in 2006 and won the prestigious René Goscinny Prize, was named one of the 5 ‘essential’ graphic [...]

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“Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting…”

Thursday, July 14, 2011

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(action packed page from Infinite Kung-Fu by and (c) Kagan McLeod, published Top Shelf) Leigh Walton at fine Indy publisher Top Shelf points us to a fab new video trailer for Kagan Mcleod’s Infinite Kung-Fu (which they are launching at San Diego Comic Con in a week’s time) – damn, but this is super-funky! I [...]

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TCAF this weekend in Toronto!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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This Saturday and Sunday is the annual TCAF, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in the Toronto Reference Library, a bash that everyone we know who has been before has absolutely loved, so we are jealous of anyone who is heading there over this weekend, of course. And among the people who will be juggling selling [...]

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Read all about it! The Top Shelf Tribune

Monday, January 10, 2011

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The guys at one of one of the fab Indy comics presses that has consistently turned out some of our faves, Top Shelf, has announced a range of the upcoming graphic novel goodness we can look forward to from them in 2011, including work from Robert Venditti, Nate Powell, Jeffrey Brown, Brecht Evens, Nate Powell, [...]

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Owly to be published as full colour picture book….

Sunday, December 12, 2010

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Well, the world may be slowly freezing, democracy seems to be losing the battle to big business and England seems to have forgotten that educating our children is something we should actually invest in. But at least we’ve got something to take our minds off the world going very wrong - Top Shelf announced this week [...]

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Canada Reads

Friday, November 26, 2010

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Some fab news from one of our favourite publishers of fine comics, Top Shelf: CBC runs a nationwide book programme called Canada Reads, in which 5 finalists go up against one another to be named the number 1 book of the year. Each book is championed by a celebrity to try and promote more interest [...]

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Centuries

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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(cover art for the second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century books, by and (c) Messrs Moore and O’Neill, to be published by Top Shelf in the US and Knockabout in the UK) The Gosh blog notes that Kevin O’Neill is coming close to completing the artwork for the long-anticipated second volume of the League of [...]

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Superspy – wonderful, elaborate espionage tales

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Super Spy and Super Spy: The Lost Dossiers by Matt Kindt Top Shelf Productions Superspy paints an intricate, intimate portrait of life as a spy during World War II, concentrating on both the technical details of the spying trade and the emotional impact that such a life of lies and deceits, fear and mistrust had [...]

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I’m not the man you think I am at home, oh no no no, I’m a Rocketman!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

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You know we like Lizz Lunney‘s comics and here’s a nice helping of them to put a smile on your face this morning with Rocketman, currently being shared with the world by the wonderful Top Shelf 2.0 site (which has all sorts of comics loveliness on it and you should have it bookmarked)

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Moving Pictures previewed

Friday, May 14, 2010

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Techland has a preview up of Kathryn and Stuart Immonen’s forthcoming graphic novel Moving Pictures, which is about to be released from Top Shelf.  As Techland notes the Immonens first serialised Moving Pictures online a few years ago, a tale of art theft, World War Two, Nazis and conspiracy, with some wonderfully moody, shadow-filled black [...]

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Everybody wishes they could be ….. Superf*ckers

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Superf*ckers by James Kochalka Top Shelf “A hilariously rude look at what super-powered teens would really be like, presented with Kochalka’s signature sweetness and charm, SuperF*ckers is an over-the-top super-sitcom with its mind in the gutter and its heart on its sleeve.” Yep, I’d pretty much agree with all that. James Kochalka’s Superf*ckers is essentially [...]

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Here come the Swedes!

Friday, February 19, 2010

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(cover to Hey Princess by Mats Jonsson, published Top Shelf) One of our favourite Indy publishers, Top Shelf, is following up their From the shadow of the Northern Lights anthology of Swedish underground comics which I really enjoyed a couple of years ago (see review here). This time they have a number of titles bringing [...]

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Top Shelf announces new deal

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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Top Shelf’s Chris Staros and Brett Warnock announced late yesterday that they had entered into “a capital investment deal with new media entrepreneur John S. Johnson, and independent film producer Anthony Bregman.” Johnson and Bregman’s production company Likely Story have bought a 33% stake in Top Shelf, with Likely Story getting first-look rights on Top [...]

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