Coming Attractions: November 2010
By Torsten Adair
The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in November 2010. This list is not comprehensive, as there are over 350 books scheduled. Instead, I have selected...
SD10: Indie Comics Saturday
Dark Horse
Given that pretty much all of the Spartans died at the Battle of Thermopylae - which was sort of the point - people have been speculating for years about how Frank Miller would wring a sequel out of his hit Dark Horse graphic novel and movie 300. Today, at Comic-Con, the answer came out. The sequel, XERXES, will actually take place at exactly the same time on another battlefield of the same war.
C2E2: Top Shelf continues Swedish Invasion
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Hey Chi-town friends, the Top Shelf Swedish Invasion is coming to you! Starting Friday and all weekend long, the new Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) takes over the lakeside McCormick Center in downtown...
Top Shelf debuts new website, new books
This morning, indie publisher Top Shelf unveiled a new, more user-friendly website, but they've also announced a slew of new books for 2011 and beyond listed below -- among the highlights, a two-volume...
Lemire announces THE UNDERWATER WELDER
While continuing with work at Vertigo (SWEET TOOTH), Canadian artist Jeff Lemire hasn't forgotten his indie roots and has just announced a new graphic novel, THE UNDERWATER WELDER, which is due later next year...
SWEDISH INVASION video may rock your world
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In April, Top Shelf publishes three graphic novels out of Sweden, and this trailer is definitely the bomb. It stars a guy named Errki and gets better from there, with a sense of...
Top Shelf announces new business partnership with Johnson and Bregman
Indie comics mainstay Top Shelf, publisher of such critically acclaimed books as BLANKETS, FROM HELL, BOX OFFICE POISON, and LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, has gained a new minority owner, more funding and a first...
Check out: THE LOVE EATERS
Someone Twittered us to check out Andrew Drilon's THE LOVE EATERS, one of the Top Shelf 2.0 webcomics, and ya know what...we are suckers for any comic that features good pen and ink art...
SD09: Top Shelf — #1721
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...
SD09: OWLY animated short debuts
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...
Eddie Campbell double dose
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...
New SURROGATES poster
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.