Category: Top Shelf Productions05/26/08 Top Shelf just launched its all-new, free digital comics initiative, playfully titled Top Shelf 2.0. Updated 5 days a week, the new program will showcase a huge variety of talent both old and new, introducing creators to new fans and fans to new creators with a constant stream of new stories. 05/16/08 (TOP SHELF 05/15/08) The 2008 award season is shaping up to be The Matt & Jeff Show here at Top Shelf! Matt Kindt's critically beloved thriller SUPER SPY has been nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album--Reprint! Originally serialized on Top Shelf's web site, SUPER SPY earned accolades everywhere as soon as it was collected and published as a gorgeous full-color graphic novel. SUPER SPY fans include everyone from Attack of the Show's Blair Butler to comic super-retailer (and former Eisner judge) James Sime, as well as institutions from the Teacher Librarian Magazine to The Comics Journal. This is his third Eisner nomination! (TOP SHELF 05/15/08) One of the coolest books to hit this summer will be Alex Robinson's latest masterpiece, TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN. Please visit the website and check out the awesome cover and the preview pages we have showcased there. Here are all the details, plus a few online reviews already in, and the feature interview with Alex at Publishers Weekly: 05/15/08 (TOP SHELF 05/15/08) Announcing a new phase in the internet age of comics: Top Shelf 2.0! Launching this Friday, May 16, Top Shelf 2.0 is a new webcomics site and digital anthology, bringing together great cartoonists both familiar and new. We'll update with a new story every weekday! Sometimes a standalone short story, sometimes a new chapter in an ongoing serial, sometimes a great story from the Top Shelf Webcomics archive... but always something different! It's all free and all on TopShelfComix.com! 04/14/08 11:20:42 am, by ComicList Categories: DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Fantagraphics Books, Viz Media LLC, Oni Press, Top Shelf Productions, Drawn and Quarterly, First Second Books, Renaissance Press, Archaia Studios Press, Awards, Conventions, San Diego Comic Con, Eisner Awards PRESS RELEASE: The nomination list for the 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards represents the most diverse slate of titles and creators in the 20-year history of the awards (considered the “Oscars” of the comic book industry). The nominees range from literary Japanese graphic novels to comics based on popular TV series, from massive hardcover collections of classic comic strips and comic books to cutting-edge anthologies, from goofy humor titles to works about the Soviet space program, a Chinese vaudeville magician, and the Negro Leagues. In fact, the nominations are so varied that it is difficult to summarize any trends. Tags: archaia, dc comics, ed brubaker, eisner awards, fantagraphics, first second, fred chao, hyperion, image comics, james sturm, jimmy gownley, marvel comics, oni press, san diego comic con, top shelf, viz
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04/11/08 07:35:52 pm, by ComicList Categories: Top Shelf Productions, Awards, Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards, Eisner Awards, Alex Awards 11 April 2008 (PR): Jeff Lemire not only won the American Library Association's "ALEX AWARD" for his phenomenal graphic novel, ESSEX COUNTY (VOL 1): TALES FROM THE FARM, but TALES FROM THE FARM and ESSEX COUNTY (VOL 2): GHOST STORIES have both just been nominated for the 2008 JOE SHUSTER AWARD for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist (Writer/Artist), and also two EISNER AWARDS for both Best New Graphic Album and Best Writer/Artist. |
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