Tag Archive | "Top Shelf"

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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