Incredible Change-Bots 2

by Jeffrey Brown ; Top Shelf Productions

This is Jeffrey Brown’s idiosyncratic version of, or perhaps love letter to, the Transformers.

The Playwright

by Daren White, Eddie Campbell ; Top Shelf Productions

This is much closer to being a character sketch than a (graphic) novel – not too much happens, there are no substantial crises, and so on. This is not in any sense a bad thing, since it’s one of the most incisive and profound character portraits I’ve seen in comics.

Moving Pictures

by Kathryn & Stuart Immonen ; Top Shelf Productions

Martin Skidmore — 03-Dec-10

I’m not sure how much I liked this WWII occupied Paris story of a museum curator vying with a German officer over what happens to the works of art.

BB Wolf and the Three LPs

by J.D. Arnold, Richard Koslowski ; Top Shelf Productions

Martin Skidmore — 01-Dec-10

The first name in the title will make you think of two blues giants, and the last term sounds musical too – but you’ll probably have also spotted the fairy tale reading.

Superf*ckers

by James Kochalka ; Top Shelf Productions

Martin Skidmore — 29-Nov-10

For me, one of the most consistently and hugely enjoyable comics of recent years, here collected for your convenience. The premise is simple enough: what if a top super-team were all assholes who hated each other?

Finger Prints

by Will Dinski ; Top Shelf Productions

Martin Skidmore — 25-Nov-10

This is an absolutely fascinating, compelling and disturbing graphic novel. The sophistication is in the thinking behind the story: this is a rich examination of ideas of beauty and the pressures to maintain it, and especially those on women and how that reflects on their position in the world.

Tags: Top Shelf, Will Dinski

AX: Alternative Manga 1

by Misc. ; Top Shelf Productions

Martin Skidmore — 23-Nov-10

This 400-page collection is a selection of the best from alternative Japanese anthology AX: outsider material, a lot of it with an approach or attitude that would be unacceptable in the big mainstream publications.

Alec: The Years Have Pants

by Eddie Campbell ; Top Shelf

Peter Campbell — 09-Nov-10

Alec: The Years Have Pants collects virtually all of Eddie Campbell’s autobiographical Alec MacGarry strips in a single volume (the most recent, ‘The Fate of the Artist’ is the only one excluded).