Top Shelf Sale

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Special Deals / Top Shelf Productions

Cool stuff for $3.

Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic
Dodgem Logic #1 / Top Shelf Productions


Comic Book Artist Magazine
Comic Book Artist (Vol 2) #1 / Top Shelf Productions
Comic Book Artist (Vol 2) #4 / Top Shelf Productions
Comic Book Artist (Vol 2) #5 / Top Shelf Productions

Top Shelf Anthology (contains the "banned" Alan Moore Cobweb story that DC refused to publish)
Top Shelf #9: Asks the Big Questions / Top Shelf Productions

Eddie Campbell's Alex Vol 4
Alec (Vol 4): After the Snooter / Top Shelf Productions


a graphic novel I consider hugely underrated, Dear Julia
Dear Julia, / Top Shelf Productions

"This is a thoughtfully creative book in the vanguard of our medium."
-- Will Eisner

"Like Edward Gorey, Brian Biggs creates little graphic novellas of genteel malignance and madness." -- CMJ Magazine

Boyd Soloman believes he can fly and is eight floors above a San Francisco street intending to prove it. "Dear Julia," is the story of how he got there. Boyd's vivid memory of the past and shaky comprehension of the present give clues to the events that lead him to the edge: his childhood, his parents, and a particular trip to Tucson, Arizona where everything began to go terribly awry. Brian Biggs tells the tale with deft wit and a sharp eye, leaving crumbs both verbal and visual along the reader's path to the climactic end. Also available is the Dear Julia, Short Film directed by Alistair Banks Griffin. -- 112 pages, Diamond: STAR10643

LXG Century for $5
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol III): Century #1 - 1910 / Top Shelf Productions

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The Playright (Eddie Campbell)
The Playwright / Top Shelf Productions

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Artist Eddie Campbell and writer Daren White have teamed up to present a most peculiar love story.

The Playwright rather enjoys a quiet moment in the local park. It is a good place to mentally sort his ideas, and is often frequented by pretty young ladies. He once saw a pigeon defecate onto a businessman's shoulder. It struck him as absurd that such an event is often considered lucky. Surely the luck lies with passers-by who, statistically, are far less likely to be similarly soiled at that precise moment. Similarly, the Playwright has always derived an almost perverse sense of relief upon receiving news that an old friend has developed prostate cancer. Because statistically, he reasons, such news significantly reduces the chances of himself being similarly afflicted. And to be honest, at his age, his prostate needs all the statistical support he can muster...

The Playwright: a dark comedy about the sex life of a celibate middle-aged man.-- A 160-Page Deluxe Full-Color Hardcover Graphic Novel, 9" x 5 1/2" (landscape), Diamond: APR10-1089

Also a bargain at $20
From Hell

From Hell / Top Shelf Productions

Essex County
Essex County (new printing!) / Top Shelf Productions

This critically-acclaimed graphic novel was recently chosen as one of Canada Reads’ Top 5 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade! It is also the winner of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, the Doug Wright Award, and the Joe Shuster Award.

"A rich tapestry ... Mr. Lemire infuses his characters with vivid details that make them burst to life." -- George Gene Gustines, The New York Times

"Jeff Lemire's Essex County trilogy represents one of the most remarkable recent achievements in indie comics: three interlocking graphic novels about the mysteries and melancholy of a small Canadian farming community, rendered in a distinctive style and turned out surprisingly quickly." -- The AV Club

"Essex County is a tremendous achievement ... This heartfelt piece of graphic literature surpasses its form to stand as an enduring example of the finest in Canadian literature." -- from the introduction by Darwyn Cooke

"The subtle inter-weaving of Jeff Lemire's Essex County Trilogy is brilliant and constantly surprising. The cumulative impact left a lump in my throat." -- Jeff Smith, creator of Bone and RASL

"These three books on Canadian lives are individually striking, and cumulatively stunning." -- Paul Gravett, author of Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life

"This is the comics medium at its best." -- Booklist (from one of three starred reviews)

Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What could change two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the work of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deception?

Set in an imaginary version of Jeff Lemire’s hometown, ESSEX COUNTY is an intimate study of an eccentric farming community, and a tender meditation on family, memory, grief, secrets, and reconciliation. With the lush, expressive inking of a cartoonist at the height of his powers, Lemire draws us in and sets us free. -- a 512-page softcover graphic novel with French flaps, 6 1/2" x 9", Diamond: JUN091069