Tag top shelf
SCOOP: From the people who brought you Adventure Time….James Kochalka’s SuperF***ers
Move over Finn. Jack Krak is on his way.
Over at the Cartoon Hangover blog, this image of James Kochalka's Superf***ckers has appeared with the headline "Too Wild For T.V." If you've read the debauched adventures of Kochalka's NSFW teen superheroes—imagine Beavis and Butthead without the intelligence and restraint—you know [read more]
SCOOP: From the people who brought you Adventure Time….James Kochalka’s SuperF***ers
Move over Finn. Jack Krak is on his way.
Over at the Cartoon Hangover blog, this image of James Kochalka's Superf***ckers has appeared with the headline "Too Wild For T.V." If you've read the debauched adventures of Kochalka's NSFW teen superheroes—imagine Beavis and Butthead without the intelligence and restraint—you know [read more]
Coming Attractions: Fall 2011: Top Shelf
"Top Shelf", indeed! Next year will see some amazing titles, and this year, there's fun stuff, as well as some quality reads. What caught your eye? [read more]
Top Shelf Hits iBooks and Google Books, Launches Two Digital Comics Apps
Filed under: Indie, Digital Comics
Top Shelf Productions is one of those companies that the comics industry needs, with a wonderfully diverse line-up of books, from children's books by Andy Runton and James Kochalka to more adult fare by Alan Moore ... [read more]
Top Shelf launches app
Top Shelf has just announced a team-up with comiXology that includes their own iOS app, and a separate app for the Kids Club line. Books from LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN to OWLY will be available across various platforms.
Interestingly, Top Shelf is the first "alt.comix" type publisher to go whole [read more]
DIGITAL COMICS: comiXology announces Top Shelf app
Press Release Top Shelf Productions, the publisher of critically acclaimed and popularly beloved graphic novels, and comiXology, the leading distributor of digital comics, are proud to announce the launch of the official Top Shelf Productions iOS App a... [read more]
Webcomic Alert: SUPERMAKER
Andrew Drilon, a Filipino artist best known for Kare Kare Kamix, a daring experimental webcomic, is back with SUPERMAKER at Top Shelf 2.0. It's an excellent metafictional play on the crisis era of comics. EVen if you don't like superheroes, keep clicking! [read more]
Link Ink: Top Shelf’s Online Sale, Capes On A Train And Blocky ‘Doctor Who’
Filed under: Link Ink, Culture
Sales: Top Shelf is currently slinging some major savings across its line, with many TPBs priced as low as $3. [Top Shelf]
Technique: CO2 Comics takes a look at the Ames Lettering Guide, which should make everyone t... [read more]
Top Shelf announces $3 sale
Want some great full length comics for the price of a single comic? TopShelf is having a ginormous sale. The pr makes it clear that this is a "kickstarter" campaign for next year's publishing schedule so let's support this. [read more]
To do tonight: Infinite Kung Fu launch party in Toronto
THE INFINITE KUNG-FU LAUNCH PARTY: FEATURING HOP-FU!
A Spectacular Graphic Novel Launch and Live Music/Film Event [read more]
Win ‘Blankets’ and an Original Craig Thompson Sketch from Top Shelf [Contest]
Filed under: Top Shelf, Indie
Two larger new editions of Craig Thompson's autobiographical graphic novel Blankets came out yesterday from Top Shelf, reprinting the Eisner Award-winning book about Thompson's first love as a young man from a deeply ... [read more]
‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, 1969′: The Story Isn’t There
Filed under: Reviews, Indie
This week, Top Shelf released the latest volume of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In Century: 1969, Moore and O'Neill continue to take their protagonists on the tour of 20th century li... [read more]
Studio Coffee Run SDCC Sunday: Grimm, Cowboys and Aliens, Save the Date, etc.
Not much happened for me personally at Comic Con on Sunday except for getting the frack out of there before getting quashed by a giant menacing smurf but I nonetheless have a bunch of cool schtuff to share from Sunday and previous days... [read more]
Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1969′ to Resurface at Comic-Con [Preview]
Filed under: Top Shelf, Previews
The much anticipated second volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century will be among the many auspicious Top Shelf releases available this weekend at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Subtitled 1969... [read more]
Top Shelf signs with iVerse
The digital teaming up is coming fast and furious as Top Shelf has signed with iVerse for digital distro. The idea of reading Nate Powell, James Kochalka and Renee French on a tablet sounds very tasty indeed. [read more]
Kagan McLeod’s ‘Infinite Kung Fu’ Trailer is Infinitely Awesome [Video]
Filed under: Top Shelf, Previews, Video
If our enthusiastic write-up of Kagan McLeod's Infinite Kung Fu wasn't enough to convince you of this graphic novel's great worth, perhaps this new video trailer will make you see the light. Produced by Top ... [read more]
Cool: INFINITE KUNG FU book trailer
Kagen McLeod's imminent INFINITE KUNG FU is a crazy-good 600 page fighting epic. Just order it already! [read more]
SD11: Top Shelf debuts and signings
Top Shelf has shared their signings and book debuts with us and here's the list:
Debuts/Signings:
-- Craig Thompson (redesigned Blankets Hardcover & Softcover)
-- Kagan McLeod (Infinite Kung Fu)
-- Nate Powell (Any Empire)
-- Robert Venditti/Mike Huddleston (The Homeland Directive)
-- Ray Friesen (Pirate Penguin vs Ninja Chicken)
-- plus the new Okie Dokie Donuts [read more]
New and Notable: Lucille
Ludovic Debeurme's Lucille hits these shores this week, and it's a stunner. In France this hefty (500+ page) graphic novel about two teenagers from troubled families coming of age together was a major literary event, crossing over even with non-comics readers, and Top Shelf's English version is very faithful [read more]
‘Lucille’ Creator Ludovic Debeurme on the Angouleme Award-Winning Graphic Novel [Video]
Filed under: Top Shelf, Video, Culture
On sale this week is Lucille, the new graphic novel by Ludovic Debeurme. The touching and deeply intimate story of two young people struggling with anorexia, alcoholism, and various levels of filial distress,... [read more]