Tag Archive | "Top Shelf"

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 some [...]

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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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Jeff Lemire revamps his site

Monday, November 23, 2009

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The excellent Jeff Lemire has revamped his official website and blog; if you’ve not read Jeff before its a good time to get in on his work, which I’m glad to see is gaining a wider audience. I first came across Jeff’s work via the engrossing Essex County trilogy which Top Shelf published (the series, [...]

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Eddie Campbell’s Alec: The Years Have Pants….

Sunday, September 6, 2009

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(Two flavours of the upcoming Alec book: hardback to the left, softcover to the right.) Top Shelf have released some preview pages from Alec: The Years Have Pants by Eddie Campbell. It’s available from October 2009 – click here to pre-order from the FPI webstore. This is one of those books that you just know [...]

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Joel’s SDCC report

Monday, August 3, 2009

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Tripwire supremo Joel Meadows has recovered sufficiently from his transatlantic jet-lag to start posting up his recollections and pictures from the recent San Diego Comic Con, with parts one and two already up on his blog. (Top Shelf’s Chris Staros with Rober Venditti at SDCC, pic borrowed from Joel Meadows’ blog)

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Animated Owly!

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Top Shelf’s Chris Staros tells us that Andy Runton’s wonderful Owly comics characters (solid favourites with a number of us here) has been animated by Sprite Animation Studios and the cartoon will debut at the San Diego Comic Con later this month, where fans will be able to drop by the Top Shelf booth to [...]

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Death by chocolate

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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The BBC site has news of a horrible and very unusual industrial accident where a man fell into a vat of hot chocolate at work and sadly lost his life. And I know it is rather ghoulish, but it suddenly reminded me of David Yurkovich’s very interesting Death by Chocolate, in which our central character, [...]

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The Thoughts of the Artist: Eddie Campbell talks to Pádraig

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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Last spring I had a nice break in Paris and being me I had to go into a couple of bookstores and check out the graphic novels selection. Among the European works I noticed French editions of UK and US (and other) creators, including, I couldn’t help but notice, a rather nice big collection of [...]

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Cartooning in the Shadow of the Northern Lights

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

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From the Shadow of the Northern Lights: an Anthology of Swedish Alternative Comics Edited by Johannes Klenell Published by Top Shelf/Ordfront Galago It seems as if we have been fortunate enough to see some cracking comics anthologies over the last few years – McSweeney’s, Best American Comics, Mome, Kramer’s Ergot, Flight and others – but this recent offering [...]

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