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What you see… a wee Wizzywig preview from Ed Piskor

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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I’m really looking forward to Ed Piskor‘s upcoming Wizzywig, a fascinating looking comic work based on the experiences – and underground legends – of some of the early hackers and phreaks. Hacking has now parlayed its way into common useage for everyone – in a world where most have web-connected computers at home, huge amounts [...]

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Shameless Publicity Document…. Blue

Saturday, March 10, 2012

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Pat Grant’s Blue is out end of March from Top Shelf, and it’s a bit good, it really is. But don’t take my word for it, here’s Pat Grant himself with his very own “Shameless Publicity Document”. This is just the first bit, click to see the rest…. and remember, there’s nothing at the bottom [...]

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Director’s Commentary – the Ax Man Cometh

Thursday, December 1, 2011

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Another slightly different entry for you today in our occassional Director’s Commentary series, where we ask creators to talk us through one of their projects. Normally we cover an upcoming or newly released work, but today we talk to the Scottish Comics Samurai, Sean Michael Wilson, a Scots comics scribe living and working in the [...]

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Chester 5000 XYV… just your everyday erotic, robotic, Victorian romance…

Sunday, November 27, 2011

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Chester 5000 XYV By Jess Fink Top Shelf “1885: an age of industrial revolution and sexual frustration. Pricilla is a woman with needs, and her inventor husband Robert is a little too busy with his experiments to keep her fully satisfied. Science to the rescue! With a few gears and springs, the proper appendages, a [...]

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Okie Dokie Donuts makes Molly laugh….

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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Okie Dokie Donuts: Open For Business By Chris Eliopoulos Top Shelf Productions Another interesting looking kids/ all -ages book from Top Shelf. I have to admit I saw this and just thought it was a little too over the top, a little too cramped, with so much going on in a lot of the panels [...]

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Comic Noir with a Liar’s Kiss

Friday, October 28, 2011

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Liar’s Kiss By Eric Skillman and Jhomar Soriano Top Shelf With Liar’s Kiss we have something for fans of Chandler, Hamnett, Elroy et al, a very solid, very enjoyable slice of hard-bolied detective story – a bit of comic noir. Sure, it’s not up there with those gentlemen, and it’s absolutely loaded with noir clichés, and [...]

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The Homeland Directive

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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The Homeland Directive By Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston Top Shelf Tight, Hollywood ready action thriller is not the first thing you’d mention if I asked you to name a typical Top Shelf book. Of course, this may well be a good thing – maybe it simply proves that there’s not really any such thing [...]

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Gingerbread Girl – whimsical, frothy, fun… but lacking that extra pinch of darkness..

Friday, September 30, 2011

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Gingerbread Girl By Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover Top Shelf First off – a quick note on that cover. Tim Leong’s design skills really make the book stand out on the shelf, and the clever reversal of the images on the book’s back cover very graphically mirror what we’re about to read inside. Now mental [...]

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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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