Tag: Top Shelf
INDIE VIEW: ‘A Shining Beacon’ offers insightful political clarity wrapped in the warmth of...
John Seven reviews 'A Shining Beacon' by James Albon
INDIE VIEW: In ‘Highwayman,’ we all get to see the tree fall in the...
John Seven reviews 'Highwayman' by Koren Shadmi
INDIE VIEW: Guilherme Petreca’s ‘Ye’ uses an ancient path for modern insight
John Seven reviews Guilherme Petreca's 'Ye'
INDIE VIEW: ‘Belzebubs’ and ‘Man-Eaters’ offer satirical takes on dark subjects
John Seven reviews 'Belzebubs' and 'Man-Eaters'
Preview: Red Panda & Moon Bear – Cuban-American cartoonist Jarod Roselló’s Graphic Novel About Two...
Supernatural menaces in a working-class neighborhood
Raising Children According the Precepts of Black Metal – Webcomic Belzebubs Gets a Hardcover...
Raising children according the precepts of black metal
NYCC ‘18: The NY Public Library Panel – Literary Comics to Build Your Collection
by Sara L. Jewell
On Thursday morning, for the second consecutive year, NYCC kicked off by hosting a full track of off-site programming for educators, librarians and comics professionals at the New York Public library....
Review: Julian Hanshaw’s ‘Cloud Hotel’ keeps things mysterious
In his previous graphic novel Tim Ginger, Julian Hanshaw touched up on UFOs in context of their place in popular conspiracy culture, mysterious but unlikely. In Cloud Hotel, Hanshaw does the exact opposite —...
INTERVIEW: Erin Nations explores phone anxiety and gender identity in GUMBALLS
One of Top Shelf’s recent releases – Gumballs – wasn’t a graphic novel but a new comics series. A quarterly series from the young cartoonist Erin Nations, the first issue contains multiple stories and...
Interview: You Might Be An Artist If… you find Lauren Purje’s book all too...
Lauren Purje studied fine art, but in recent years she’s best known for making comics about the art world – most importantly about what it means to be an artist, especially a young artist....
A Year of free Comics: Lauren Purje explores the aspiring artist’s life at Hyperallergic
Art and culture site Hyperallergic is home to several ongoing comics by an array of up and comers. One of them is Lauren Purje, an art school graduate whose clean-lined comics are a humorous look...
March, Book Three is the Big Winner With Librarians! (But That’s Not All!)
Just a quick report, with a longer piece to follow:
This morning, the American Library Association announced the 2016 winners of various book awards, for books, video, and audiobooks written for children and teens. Some...
