Tag Archive | "Top Shelf"

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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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 [...]

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