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Paul Davidson and artist Julian Hanshaw have sold world rights to their latest graphic novel, H2O, to Top Shelf Productions editor-in-chief Chris Staros, through IDW Entertainment, in a pre-emptive purchase, representing themselves. "H20 is a sci-fi fable about a young man born into a sterile, conformist dystopia, until mysterious events – his house inexplicably filling with[...]

Fans of Kim Dwinell's bestselling Top Shelf Productions (IDW Publishing) graphic novel series Surfside Girls were in for some good news on Friday That's when Apple TV+ announced that it had given an order for a 10-episode live-action, all-ages series adaptation from WGA Award winner & Daytime Emmy Award-nominee May Chan (An American Girl Story:[...]

IDW Publishing's Top Shelf has joined with Campbell for this new version of the classic, fully restored and with color added, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the book with From Hell: Master Edition It may have been a tour de force in black and white, and it's fun to joke around, but any lover[...]

Taking to Twitter on Thursday, the writer/artist posted the front page to the script for the pilot episode – which means we're going out on a limb here to say that we think that means there's a pilot script now in play (at SDCC 2018, Lemire revealed that he would pen the pilot after not[...]

Top Shelf has announced Cosmoknights, a new comic by Hannah Templer which will start as a webcomic, available at www.cosmoknights.space, and will be published as a graphic novel in Fall 2019 The headline pretty much says it all, but a press release provides some more details: Top Shelf Productions will publish the solo debut graphic novel[...]

A press release provides the finer details: With its second volume landing in bookstores everywhere this week, The Jekyll Island Chronicles is an award-winning series of alternate-history graphic novels, featuring an unlikely band of World War I veterans who continue to serve their country by battling an anarchist cabal in a post-war era of invention. On the[...]

At New York Comic Con today, Top Shelf announced a new all-ages graphic novel: Red Panda and Moon Bear, by Jarod Roselló The comic is hitting stores next March, and you can see the details from the press release below: Red Panda and Moon Bear are the defenders of their community! Together, these brave siblings rescue lost[...]

Top Shelf announced a sequel to Kim Dwinell's 2017 middle-grade comic Surfside Girls at San Diego Comic-Con today Surfside Girls Book Two will be titled The Mystery at the Old Rancho, and it's set to hit stores in June of 2019. A press release contains more details: Surfside Girls (Book One): The Secret of Danger Point introduced[...]

I showed it to some friends, and they recommended me to write to a publisher and see what they say." Published by Top Shelf Productions, the stories in Cat'N'Bat have no dialogue or conversations between the characters According to Danylenko, that was intentional to appeal to international audiences. Danylenko noted on the adult themes of the stories: "I[...]

British comic creators David Gaffney and Dan Berry are teaming up for a new comic self-described as "a dark comedy about relationships, memory, loneliness, and obsession." Top Shelf announced the new original graphic novel in a press release today: Valerie has a rich interior life Serially unlucky in love, to feel better she imagines that her previous[...]

Lemire, Chris Staros of Top Shelf and Ted Adams of IDW will produce. Anonymous entertainment recently produced Spotlight and The Revenant Gosling and Kao worked together on The Nice Guys and Song to Song.     Jeff Lemire's graphic novel, The Underwater Welder, is getting a big screen adaptation by Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao and Anonymous Entertainment. It tells[...]

It seems appropriate that Top Shelf announced the third and final segment in Congressman John Lewis' autobiographical series March The award winning series tells of Lewis' time in the Civil Rights Movement with Dr Martin Luther King and the historical march on Selma. A book like this is important to remind us not only how far[...]

Top Shelf is bringing The Fun Family to comic shops this June The story by Benjamin Frisch is a funny, haunting and though-provoking deconstruction of an American art form, the suburban family comic strip. Beloved cartoonist Robert Fun has earned a devoted following for his circle-shaped newspaper comic strip, celebrating the wholesome American family by drawing inspiration[...]

Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Top Shelf will be publishing a comic adaptation of legendary journalist Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Taking on the task of bringing the genius blend of reality and fiction to the comic world is Eisner-nominated artist Troy Little (Chiaroscuro). The original book, subtitled A Savage Journey[...]

will consist of IDW Publishing, CTM Media Group, a distributor of print and digital advertising; IDW Entertainment, the television-development arm of IDW Publishing; San Diego Comic Art Gallery, a new comic art gallery space launching in summer 2015; e-ttractions, a travel-based web portal; Top Shelf Productions, IDW Games, producer of tabletop board games and card[...]

It's the fourth issue of short crime stories written by Eric Skillman (Liar's Kiss, Top Shelf) and will feature artwork by Rachel Freire, Andrew Maclean, Maxim Simic, Matt Weigle and FATALE and CRIMINAL artist, Sean Phillips. HMS: You are selling some art at the moment to support your work What's on sale and what role do[...]

The final chapter in the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo story came out last week in the UK from Top Shelf Publications and Knockabout Nemo: River Of Ghosts starring the daughter of Captain Nemo, Janni, taking on his role in the world and aboard the Nautilus We saw the time of her birth, now we reach[...]

IDW's solicitations for May comics from the upcoming Diamond Previews also now incorporate Top Shelf I wonder how they enjoy being in the front of Previews with their new friends, launching You Don't Say, collecting any unseen comics by Nate Powell? There's also the launch of a certain Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and the new[...]

That's what being bought out by a Diamond Premier Publisher does for you. IDW's acquisition of Top Shelf Comix means that they will be printing their Free Comic Book Day titles together,and will lower the cost price for retailers for each issue given away in comic book stores. Which means Top Shelf's Motorcycle Samurai book will be dropping[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! Before I tackle this week's New Comics Now, I make a personal and business related

This is your first look at the upcoming new League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, Nemo: River Of Ghosts, published by Knockabout and Top Shelf/IDW. With princess Jenny, daughter of Captain Nemo, and set in 1975, concluding the Nemo trilogy, and published on 2nd March. Hmm Looking at that opening splash-page… have[...]

The IDW/Top Shelf acquisition could have all sorts of contractual side-effects So I asked a few people who might be affected. Tony Bennett is the publisher of Knockabout in the UK, who co-publishes a number of titles with Top Shelf in the US, including From Hell and League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen I asked Tony what the[...]

The West Coast is not even awake yet but… All single issues of comics sold by Top Shelf mysteriously had their cover prices raised to $3.99 this morning… (I kid because I love.) — Augie De Blieck Jr (@augiedb) January 6, 2015 Mixed feelings about the IDW/Topshelf merger Plenty of upsides Wondering about digital distribution. — Rob Cave (@notbbcnews24)[...]

We haven't had a big comic book company acquisition for a while, not since Boom! and Archaia. But we understand that IDW has just acquired Top Shelf Comix. Started in 1997 by Chris Staros, Top Shelf Productions, to give it its official name, has published creator-owned graphic novels, such as League Of Extrardinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Surrogates, Blankets, Essex[...]

'I don't think it's going to be a huge problem that one of the heads of the order is no longer corporeal.' A 320 page hardcover, the book is intended to be published by Top Shelf and Knockabout and will include art by Kevin O'Neill, Melinda Gebbie, John Coulthart and José Villarrubia. [...]

By June Vigants The NYCC weekend was quite hectic but I had a great moment at the Top Shelf Comics booth when I got to sit down with Eric Orchard, an author and artist based in Toronto who came down for his debut American signing of his critically-acclaimed all-ages novel, Maddie Kettle: The Adventure of the[...]

It's beautiful, laugh-out-loud funny, painful, uplifting, heart wrenching, exciting, and, as times, upsetting.  It's really quite great at everything.  If you, like me, prefer your comics on paper, and laying down cold hard cash for them, then watch the website's shop for the printed version, or distributed through Top Shelf to your brick-and-mortar in December. [...]

Top Shelf has announced that it's adding Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag's webcomic Strong Female Protagonist to their distribution family The hit webcomic that has been running since 2012 had a successful Kickstarter campaign allowing the creators to self=publish and have Top Shelf distribute. With superstrength and invulnerability, Alison Green used to be one of[...]

Basically, this is getting first dibs via Bleeding Cool before the best bargains  sell out. Welcome to The Top Shelf Comix Annual Sale. There are some damn fine deals, well below Amazon's prices, my own favourites would be March, Century, Bojeffries Saga, Essex County, Heck, Pinocchio Vampire Slayer, Infinite Kung Fu, Three Fingers, Unerwater Welder… I should[...]

The third volume of LOEG was neither a serialised six-part story in the American 'floppy' format, nor a single graphic novel à la Black Dossier: instead, it was a series of three interconnected yet individually standalone 'graphic novellas' that spanned an entire century of time for the League, each of which was set in a[...]