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 that any such cartoon WOULD be too wild for T.V. Frederator Studios, which runs the blog and produced such cartoon classics as Adventure Time and The Fairly Odd Parents has had Superf***ers in development for a while now—and now it's going to be seen as part of the massive new influx of programming on YouTube. Kochalka has already written 8 of the 12 episodes.
Continue ReadingComing 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?
Continue ReadingTop 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 hog with digital. D&Q and Fantagraphics and most of the smaller indies have remained remained aloof to the ecomics world. Although most art comics are best suited to the paper medium -- and are, indeed the very type of objects that will keep print books alive for quite some time -- a lot of indie cartoonists read just fine on the screen — we've found some of the "panel grid layout" types even look great on an iPhone. It seems like only a matter of time before everyone has their own app and storefront...but how long?
Continue ReadingWebcomic 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!
Continue ReadingTop 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.
Continue ReadingTo 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
Continue ReadingStudio 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...
Continue ReadingTop 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.
Continue ReadingCool: INFINITE KUNG FU book trailer
Kagen McLeod's imminent INFINITE KUNG FU is a crazy-good 600 page fighting epic. Just order it already!
Continue ReadingSD11: 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 (Story 1) -- plus the new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1969
Continue ReadingNew and notable: Lucille
Ludovic Debeurme'sLUCILLE 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 to the original.
Continue ReadingHUGE NEWS! New Hutch Owens collection in October!
Tom Hart's essential zeitgeist character Hutch Owen gets his third collection this fall, Let's Get Furious!, due from Top Shelf:
Continue ReadingStumptown 2011: More promised pictures
As promised, here are more photos of Stumptown: the comics festival and the parties that just won't quit!
Continue ReadingCongressman John Lewis to pen graphic novel
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Even our congressmen are getting bitten by the graphic novel bug, as Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is signed with Top Shelf to co-write March, the story of his involvement in the civil rights movement of the ’60s. Lweis will author the book with Andrew Aydin, who works in his office. While [...]
Continue ReadingVermont names Cartoonist Laureate: James Kochalka
By Jen Vaughn -- What do you do with a man with a wild mind of his own and a pair of drawing hands that just won't quit? You make him KING. James Kochalka is the one of forerunners of autobiographical diary comics with his syndicated comic, American Elf, which is also available online and began way back in October, 1998. He is also the creator of other excellent comics like irreverent SuperF*ckers and children's books like the Johnny Boo series and most recently, Dragon Puncher. His comics are published by Portland-based comics publisher, Top Shelf.
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