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Tweet THE SURROGATES, Jeff Lemire, and a new edition of LOST GIRLS and more highlight Top Shelf’s 2009 offerings. Top Shelf will be at our usual booth #1721 at Comic-Con, and this year we’ll be featuring creators: – Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele, signing the limited Signed & Numbered debut of THE SURROGATES OWNER’S MANUAL [...]
Tweet Top Shelf has announced that an OWLY cartoon, created by Sprite Animation, will debut at SD. Andy Runton’s charming, wordless owl would seem to be ideal for a cartoon. PR: Owly, the kindhearted star of the award-winning graphic novel series by Andy Runton, will come to life in an animated short at the San [...]
Tweet With The Complete Alec’s pub date approaching rapidly, we’re getting more and more Eddie Campbell , including an interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid at The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log: I was reading the autobiographical novels of Henry Miller, but now I can’t recall whether I was reading them because I wanted to go [...]
Tweet Superhero Hype! has a new poster for THE SURROGATES, starring Bruce Willis, based on the comic book of the same name by Robert Venditti and Brett Weidele. The movie is out in September.
Tweet Eddie Campbell previews The Years Have Pants, the upcoming omnibus of Alec, his early autobiographical strip, and shows off some of the 45 pages of new material, including the above strip. For those who haven’t seen Alec, it’s autobiography that probably a lot of people who don’t like autobio comics will like, as, unlike [...]
Tweet The new Vertigo blog, Graphic Content, previews SWEET TOOTH, the new ongoing series by Jeff Lemire. Well, it’s a wonderful post apocalyptic story that follows Gus, from the sanctuary of the home he’s known since birth, on an adventure to find “The Preserve” a fabled safe-haven for hybrid children. Along the way, Gus not [...]
TweetMoCCA debuts .. this is gonna take a long time so get a frosty one. TOP SHELF will be debuting: – Kevin Cannon’s FAR ARDEN – Bwana Spoons’ WELCOME TO FOREST ISLAND – Niklas Asker’s SECOND THOUGHTS and also featuring: – Nate Powell (SWALLOW ME WHOLE) – Alex Robinson (TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN), & [...]
Tweet A bunch of movie sites are posting today that a viral teaser poster for THE SURROGATES has been released (more, see Splash Page.) While the fellow in the ad does look a bit like Bruce Willis, who stars in the film, we’re told by Chris Staros and others that it is actually one of [...]
TweetNate Powell’s SWALLOW ME WHOLE is the first graphic novel since MAUS to earn a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. According to a press release from publisher Chris Staros: SWALLOW ME WHOLE is one of five official finalists in the category of Young Adult Fiction, making it the first graphic novel to [...]
Tweet Top Shelf will be right up front in the NYCC exhibit hall this year at booth #1620. And we’ll have: – Robert Venditti (THE SURROGATES) – Alex Robinson (TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN, BOX OFFICE POISON) – Christian Slade (KORGI) – Rich Koslowski (THE KING) signing books all weekend. Come by and meet them, [...]
Tweet Sulk (Vol 1): Bighead and Friends Grant Morrison, eat your heart out!
Tweet Disney and Top Shelf have released the first image of Bruce Willis in THE SURROGATES, or as Leigh Walton puts it: Exciting news — Disney/Touchstone has released the first production still from the upcoming SURROGATES movie, based on the Top Shelf graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele! Here we see Bruce Willis [...]
Tweet The Same Hat boys announce that the AX anthology will appear at Top Shelf. This is exciting news because AX is a respected anthology of unusual manga that rose from the ashes of GARO, the influential anthology that one might call the WEIRDO of Manga. We’ve posted extensively about AX before, but remember that [...]
Tweet Apparently all the Ignatz winner lists out there have left off the Debut Prize winner, probably because the nominees weren’t part of the original press release. At any rate, the winner was Nate Powell’s SWALLOW ME WHOLE (Top Shelf.) Congrats to all the very deserving winners.
Tweet Ryan Pequin’s THE WALK is a new webcomic at Top Shelf 2.0 that is quite deserving of your time.
Tweet Top Shelf has announced the following signings at their booth: – Alex Robinson (Too Cool To Be Forgotten) – Andy Hartzell (Fox Bunny Funny) – Andy Runton (Owly) – Christian Slade (Korgi) – Corey Barba (Yam) – Eddie Campbell (From Hell, Alec) – James Kochalka (Johnny Boo, American Elf) – Jeff Lemire (Essex County [...]
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