[comix] SHIPPING IN DECEMBER FROM TOP SHELF
The Mirror of Love
by Alan Moore & José Villarrubia
"
The Mirror of Love is a unique, beautiful and immensely powerful marriage of voice and vision, fact and feeling. Part testament, part history, part celebration, it belongs on everybody's bedside table, gay, straight or undecided. Wonderful." -- Clive Barker
This epic poem recounts the history of same-sex love, revealing a hidden side of Western culture through the lives of its greatest artists. Sappho, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, and many others are woven into this rich, visceral piece described by
The Comics Journal as a "vital, affecting piece of work. Exquisitely moving – not because it's a testament to same-sex love, but because it's a testament to love, period." Originally written fourteen years ago,
The Mirror of Love sprang from Moore's activist heart as a reaction to Britain's controversial anti-gay law, Clause 28. In the past,
Mirror has been translated into both a comic book and a stage production, but Top Shelf presents it as it was meant to be, a hardcover book illustrated with over forty full-color plates from acclaimed artist José Villarrubia. Included in the 120-page special edition is an essay about the poem and its previous incarnations, an index of characters and places, a selection of classic poems quoted in the text, and a bibliography. The result is a truly arresting volume that captures the spirit of Moore's poem while redefining the concept of a picture book for adults.
-- $24.95, 128 pages, Full-Color Hardcover, ISBN 1-891830-45-7
The 2nd (or 3rd) printing of:
Blankets
by Craig Thompson
"
Blankets is a great American novel." -- Andrew D. Arnold,
Time.com
"This book is a masterpiece. People will be discussing it in the same breath as
A Contract with God,
Maus, and
Sandman." -- Vroom Socko, aintitcool.com
"I thought it was moving, tender, beautifully drawn, painfully honest, and probably the most important graphic novel since
Jimmy Corrigan." -- Neil Gaiman
"
Blankets officially confirms Craig Thompson's place in the world of graphic novels as one of the true greats." -- Brian Michael Bendis
Blankets has become so popular (and is selling so fast) that we're not sure if it will be the 2nd or 3rd printing by the time this solicitation hits stores. Don't miss your chance to order the book that's being called "the defining moment of this generation of cartoonists." . From the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel,
Good-bye, Chunky Rice comes
Blankets. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter,
Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith. A profound and utterly beautiful work from Craig Thompson.
-- $29.95 (US), 592 pages, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", Deluxe Graphic Novel, ISBN
1-891830-43-0
Top Shelf Productions
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