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Top Shelf Hits iBooks and Google Books, Launches Two Digital Comics Apps

David Brothers — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:04:53 +0000

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 ...

Link Ink: Top Shelf’s Online Sale, Capes On A Train And Blocky ‘Doctor Who’

Caleb Goellner — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:10:40 +0000

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...

Win ‘Blankets’ and an Original Craig Thompson Sketch from Top Shelf [Contest]

Aaron Colter — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:35:09 +0000

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 ...

‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, 1969′: The Story Isn’t There

Chris Sims — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:48:42 +0000

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...

Top Shelf Bundling Up New Editions of Craig Thompsons’ ‘Blankets’ in August

Caleb Goellner — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:19:47 +0000

Filed under: Top Shelf, Previews Craig Thompson's multiple Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz Award winning graphic novel Blankets needs little formal introduction these days. The author's coming-of-age tale has been winning over fans since 2003, after all. ...

Top Shelf’s ‘Ax’ Explodes Manga Stereotypes [Preview]

David Brothers — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000

Filed under: Manga, Indie

Top Shelf's release of "Ax" can be seen as an assault on two common myths. The first myth is that anthology books don't work. The second myth is that manga is all spiky hair, flowery romances, and ninjas. Within "Ax'''s four hundred pages are over ... Read more

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Moving Pictures by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen [Review]

Jason Michelitch — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000

Kathryn and Stuart Immonen are the power couple of fun comics, with their separate work on Marvel books like "Nextwave" and the recent "Patsy Walker: Hellcat" miniseries exhaling breaths of anarchic and whimsical fresh air into the often ... Read more

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‘Lost Girls’ Cleared by British Customs Despite Law Banning Sexual Imagery [Exclusive]

Laura Hudson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000

Filed under: Indie, News

This week is Banned Book Week in America, and while we've heard a lot of stories recently about the media being cowed by their pervasive fear of the word "Mohammed" and over-protective parents demanding that the dictionary be banned from their ... Read more

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‘Gingerbread Girl’ by Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin Free at Top Shelf 2.0

Laura Hudson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000

Filed under: Top Shelf, Indie, Webcomics

Fans of Paul Tobin (Spider-Girl, Marvel Adventures) and Colleen Coover (X-Men: First Class, Girl Comics) rejoice! The comics supercouple is launching an all-new independent comic on Top Shelf 2.0 today called Gingerbread Girl, about a 26-year-old ... Read more

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‘Night Animals’: Where the Wild Watercolors Are [Preview]

Laura Hudson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000

Filed under: Top Shelf, Indie, Previews

One of the hottest names at the MoCCA comics festival last month was Brecht Evens, and if you're an indie comics fan who hasn't encountered the gorgeous, magnetic watercolors of the Belgian cartoonist, you will. Right now, actually, because we're ... Read more

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