(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!

SUPER SPY
-- ISBN 978-1-891830-96-9, $19.95

Jeff Lemire also turned heads this year with TWO Eisner nominations for his graphic novel trilogy ESSEX COUNTY. The first two parts of the trilogy, TALES FROM THE FARM and GHOST STORIES, were nominated together for the coveted award for Best Graphic Album--New! And on top of that, Jeff himself was honored with a nomination for Best Writer/Artist! Combine that with the Canadian Joe Shuster Award Nomination for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist (Writer/Artist) and his win of the American Library Association Alex Award, and it's starting to seem like time for Jeff to buy a new trophy case!

ESSEX COUNTY (VOL 1): TALES FROM THE FARM
-- ISBN 978-1-891830-88-4, $9.95

ESSEX COUNTY (VOL 2): GHOST STORIES
-- ISBN 978-1-891830-94-5, $14.95

ESSEX COUNTY (VOL 3): THE COUNTRY NURSE
(the final volume -- will be published in October!)
-- ISBN 978-1-891830-95-2, $9.95