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• Rent Girl's Lauren McCubbin is interviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle

• Johnny Ryan fills in for Kaz in this week's "Underworld"

• Hey, check out Matt Broersma's (The Grand Tour) comics, including his latest sketchook diary, "Adjustments", at mattmatt.com.

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Shipping in November:

Hutch Owen: Unmarketable
by Tom Hart
This graphic novel collects the all-new travels and travails of Hutch Owen, the outrageous homeless rebel that battles the corporate forces that control our lives. Included in this volume are: "Public Relations," where Hutch is pitted against the Worner company and a PR firm bent on redesigning the World Trade Center Site; "Aristotle," in which Hutch winds up in Worner's employ as a slogan writer; and many more. Don't miss this politically astute and heart-warming farce.
-- $14.95 (US), 208 pages, ISBN 1-891830-55-4, Diamond: SEP042964


New online comics at TopShelfComix.com:

With this on-line update, Top Shelf teams with the Flemish comics collective Pulp Deluxe to start reproducing work from their website in English. Pulp Deluxe is an amazingly hip and free website showcasing exclusive short comics by Flemish artists. It was conceived to demonstrate that Flemish cartoonists can draw more than just "funny books" (which have traditionally dominated the Belgian and, more specifically, the Flemish comic book markets), and we're showcasing two of their stories at the Top Shelf website this month:

-- GEOGLYPH by Lode Devroe, &
-- THE RIVER by Randall Caesar

Other new comix debuting at the Top Shelf website include:

-- BALTHAZAR AND OTHER STORIES by Don King
-- MONKEY MIND by Jay Lynch and Ed Piskor
-- PERCEVIL by Farel Dalrymple, &
-- WAY OFF MAIN #2 by Josue Menjivar and Scott Malin

Top Shelf Productions

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Small Press Spotlight
featuring Fredo

Opens September 25, 2004
Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco

Beginning on September 25, 2004, the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Frederick Noland, who publishes comics under the name Fredo. This showcase features highlights from Fredo's long career as an award-winning independent cartoonist.

Fredo was awarded the prestigious Xeric Grant in 2000, which he used to self-publish Shpilkes, a one-man anthology comic that runs the gamut from autobiography to workaday extraterrestrials to the roots music/comic crossover "Stagger Lee". A second anthology in 2002 featured longer, more realized vignettes, marked by Fredo's preoccupation with the downtrodden, disenfranchised and degenerate.

Since 2002, Fredo has published work in several comics anthologies, including the Penny Dreadful Travel Guides, Not My Small Diary and Legal Action Comics. His extensive freelance illustration work includes regular contributions to the Bay Area's Kitchen Sink Magazine and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund periodical Busted.

Most recently, Fredo has completed two volumes of a mini-comics trilogy exploring the dirty underbelly of the collective American subconscious, begun in 2003 with Fellowship and continuing with this year's Southern Blues/Gothic story Midnight Creep. Spring 2005 will see Fredo's return to full-size publications with Black Sheep, a continuing series published under his own Post Apocalyptic Funhouse imprint.

Fredo lives in Oakland with his lovely wife of three years, Vanessa, an accomplished visual artist, and their two cats Eno and Julia, who don't do much of anything aside from occasionally redecorating the litter box.

To view additional works by Fredo, please visit his website.

About the Small Press Spotlight:
San Francisco has been a hotbed of innovative, groundbreaking comic art since the late 1800s with the advent of the modern comic strip. In the 1960s, the Bay Area gained further notoriety when cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, Victor Moscoso, and Trina Robbins launched the underground comix movement from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Today, some of the biggest names in alternative and small-press comics hail from the Bay Area, and The Cartoon Art Museum's Small Press Spotlight will focus on these talented individuals.

The Small Press Spotlight features four different artists each year. Several examples of each cartoonist's work will be showcased in each installment.

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Dash Shaw's epic zombie romance chronicles a photographer torn between his pregnant wife and the memory of a dead, teenage librarian. One night all hell breaks loose. Dash's art varies as the story weaves in and out of memories, horror and romance. This beautiful, oversized graphic novel will break your heart and brain. Honest.

128 pages, 8.5 X 11", Mature Readers, Oddgod Press
Debuting at SPX in October 2004

[Note: Although the author previously published a comic titled Love Eats Brains!, this graphic novel features all-new work.]

Oddgod Press
Dash Shaw

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Comix & Stories

Sunday, August 29th
11 AM to 5 PM

Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street (Main & 15th Ave.), Vancouver, BC.

Guests include Jim Mahfood, David Boswell, Greg Stump, Smell of Steve, Inc., Rebecca Dart, Robin Bougie, Shawn Granton and many others.

More info.

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The Summer 2004 issue of Indy Magazine is finally online at: http://www.indyworld.com/indy/

This issue, Indy notes some red-letter dates in the "secret history of the graphic novel." Feature articles cover:

• Gustave Dore's 1854 propagandistic picture "history" of "Holy Russia..."
• Milt Gross's "He Done Her Wrong:" an appreciation by Paul Karasik...
• Megan Kelso covers Mine Okubo's 1946 book Citizen 13660, a visual first-person account of the WW II internment camps...
• R.O. Blechman's "The Juggle of Our Lady," a "sort-of Christmas story" published in 1952...
• Martin Vaughn-James' "The Cage:" an exegesis by Domingos Isabelinho...

PLUS: Mark Nevins, Bart Beaty and Paul Gravett team up to list and describe twenty key untranslated European graphic novels: with covers and sample pages...

AND: an excerpt from Caran d'Ache's proposed 1894 picture story "Maestro," the extant pages of which were compiled into a 1999 hardcover by the CNBDI...

AS WELL: Reviews

• Adam White reviews the entire run of Cerebus
• Isaac Cates analyzes Eightball #23
• Charles Hatfield weighs The Golem's Mighty Swing

AND DO NOT MISS: An eight-page preview of Brian Chippendale's upcoming Maggots, (with special bonus original cover image)

All of this is to be found at: http://www.indyworld.com/indy/

Previous issues remain archived online. The City of Glass special (the book is now available again at better bookstores and comic book shops) can be seen here.

And the Angouleme special is here.

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In the timely international spirit of the Olympics, AdHouse Books has decided to announce they will be publishing One Step After Another, a comic created by award-winning Spanish artist Fermin Solis.

One Step After Another follows the life of a young woman who is just trying to make it in this crazy world. The author/artist Fermin Solis uses bold brushstrokes and minimalist renderings that give this timeless story a modern feel. Imported from Spain, find out why Fermin Solis just won the 22nd Comic of Barcelona prize.

One Step After Another
by Fermin Solis
4-color cover
40 pages
6" x 9" saddle stitched
$5 US funds
Shipping in November
Diamond Order Code: SEP042285

Femin Solis: www.ferminsolis.com
AdHouse Books: http://adhousebooks.com

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• Check out this huge (74 pages!) collection of jam comics over at the Zum! site.

•Whip the Worker! Anton Emdin's got a nice little stress reliever at his site.

• Comics Gossip: Cartoonists Jon Lewis and Karen Snyder just got married in New York this past Thursday.

• Josh Neufeld (A Few Perfect Hours) is interviewed at Newsarama.

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From Steve Peters' latest e-newsletter:

Steve Peters' 2003 SPACE Convention panel with Dave Sim, entitled "Spirituality VS. God", will be airing in 2 parts on cable access television in the northern Kentucky area. Josh Flowers edited the video and added credits, images, and captions where necessary.

Flowers is considering making the tapes available to anyone interested; he can be reached at this e-mail address.

Each part will be shown twice a week for at least a month. The schedule can be found here.

www.awakeningcomics.com

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• Robin Bougie's got a new issue of Cinema Sewer out (#15). Check it out here. (Previous issues, of course, are available in the Poopsheet Shop.)

• Dan James (The Octopi and the Ocean) has a new story online called "Le Voyageur" which you can read here.

• Have you been reading Roger Langridge's continuing strip at Hotel Fred? Well, maybe you should.

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Comics Fans Worldwide,

Here's the latest in Top Shelf land:


HOT OFF THE PRESS

CARNET DE VOYAGE by Craig Thompson

AMERICAN ELF by James Kochalka

CONVERSATION #1 by Craig Thompson & James Kochalka

THE BLANKETS SOUNDTRACK by Tracker & Craig Thompson

GRAMPA & JULIE: SHARK HUNTERS by Jef Czekaj

SHIPPING IN SEPTEMBER:
OWLY by Andy Runton


IN PREVIEWS NOW (FOR BOOKS SHIPPING IN OCTOBER)

BIGHEAD
by Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown is back – and with a Bighead, no less! From the creator of Clumsy and Be a Man comes an irreverent and clever superhero parody, featuring the most amazing hero of all time: BIGHEAD. Witness inept villains clash with an all-too-emotional hero, in the epic graphic novel that will leap all clichés in a single bound. BIGHEAD brings together moral fable, social commentary and classic comic book action, featuring a superhero who must save an unthankful world while facing the demons of his own
failures.
-- $12.95 (US), 128 pages, Graphic Novel, ISBN 1-891830-56-2

GUTSMAN COMICS VOL #1
by Erik Kriek
Think Love and Rockets of the superhero world mixed with Quentin Tarantino and you'll have Gutsman by Dutch creator Erik Kriek. Wordless, stylish, and sexy, this graphic novel playfully uses the imagery of mainstream comics to turn the spotlight on love affairs, despair, temptation and loss. A unique approach to comics.
-- $14.95 (US), 128 pages, Graphic Novel, ISBN 90-5492-098-X


CRAIG THOMPSON, DEREK KIRK KIM, & JON B. COOKE COME HOME FROM SAN DIEGO WITH 4 EISNERS!

Top Shelf would like to congratulate Craig Thompson, Derek Kirk Kim, and Jon B. Cooke for the 4 Eisner Awards they picked up at the San Diego Comic-Con. Craig won two for his groundbreaking graphic novel, Blankets (Best Graphic Novel of Original Work and Best Writer/Artist); Derek won one for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition for SAME DIFFERENCE & OTHER STORIES; and Jon won one for Best Comics-Related Periodical for COMIC BOOK ARTIST. Congrats to all the other nominees and winners as well.


EDDIE CAMPBELL ARTWORK FOR SALE

Even though the pages of From Hell have now sold out, we've just updated the Eddie Campbell original artwork section at our website. There are tons of gorgeous pages still available from Eddie's new fully-painted Batman: The Order of Beasts, as well as from his other recent mainstream work in Captain America #27 & #28, as well as Uncanny X-Men #400. There are also some great pages left from Will Eisner's The Spirit (w/ Neil Gaiman), The Birth Caul (w/ Alan Moore), Snakes & Ladders (w/ Alan Moore), and a few Bacchus & Alec covers to boot. Click here to see which pages are available.


RECENT INTERVIEWS WITH THE TOP SHELF CREW

• JOSE VILLARRUBIA @ THE MODERN WORD
• ALAN MOORE @ SALON
• CRAIG THOMPSON @ WNYC RADIO
• JAMES KOCHALKA @ THE ONION
• ALAN MOORE @ SUICIDE GIRLS
• CHRIS STAROS @ COMIC BOOK RESOURCES
• CHRIS STAROS @ NEWSARAMA


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See y'all in Chicago next week!

Your friend thru comics,

Chris Staros
Top Shelf Productions
PO Box 1282
Marietta, GA 30061-1282
USA

www.topshelfcomix.com

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Zine World is seeking writers for our news section. We'll give you an assignment and a source or two to get you started; you do a little research and write up a ZW-worthy article by the assigned deadline.

We get lots of praise for our news section, for its focus on our nation's war on dissent and free speech, for highlighting the underreported stories about zero tolerance policies and privacy issues, for keeping a close eye on the media. We need your help in keeping it tip-top.

If you're a good writer who has a passion for these issues, get in touch ASAP. We're hard at work on our next issue. Send an e-mail about yourself to Jerianne.

Zine World website

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• In conjunction with the Zine Archives & Publishing Project, Shawn Granton (Ten Foot Rule) will be teaching a class at the Richard Hugo House (Seattle) called "Do-It-Yourself Illustration for Zines" on August 24. More info on their schedule.

• If you're in the UK, keep an eye out for a television segment later this month with Roger Langridge discussing Hellboy.

• For The Observer, Roger Sabin takes a look at some recent comics-related releases such as the new McSweeney's, Foodboy and Clyde Fans. [ thanks to BugPowder ]

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Here are a couple of art shows you may want to check out:

"Superblack"
Ink drawings by Bwana Spoons
August 12 - September 6
Local.35 in Portland

"Post-It! Notes from Zine Culture"
August 20 - September 19
Junc Gallery in Los Angeles
Specially-created Post-It note drawings by Marc Bell, Tim Biskup, Allison Cole, Jordan Crane, Sammy Harkham, Anders Nilsen, John Pham, Souther Salazar, tons more.
More info.

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RevolveR One: Sequential Tectonic Shift
Themes of identity, loneliness, homelessness, heredity, of finding our place in life, our perceptions of our selves, of others – basic ingredients of the human condition - are explored in RevolveR, the new ongoing comic book from Salgood Sam, also known as Canadian artist Max Douglas.

A collection of short works and the first installments of longer ongoing stories by Salgood Sam with guest authors a.j.duric and John O'Brien, RevolveR is at times introspective, melancholic and hopeful in its pursuit of truth and understanding.

A vehicle for telling stories, RevolveR is also a test-bed for the medium of Sequential Art and dedicated to stretching the artform through the refinement of old techniques and development of new ones. Hopefully in the process helping to expand the syntax and structure of sequential narrative art.

Salgood Sam's RevolveR represents a coming-out of sorts. The first volley of a creator who has found his stride and is ready to share the results with the world.

52 pages, B&W interiors, two-colour silk-screened covers on black cover stock. A limited first edition of 700. The first 100 will be numbered. Available online @ www.revolvercomix.com by mail order - $4.95 us, $6.95 can + shipping

Previews available at
www.revolvercomix.com

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• Did you catch the Art Spiegelman cover (of Einstein) on the September issue of Discover?

• The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has elected new officers for its Board of Directors, including new President Chris Staros. Full story at Newsarama.

• Northwesterners get a double-does of Jim Blanchard's cover art on this week's Portland Mercury and Seattle's The Stranger.

• Speaking of The Stranger, check out this week's comic by David Heatley and Erika Clowes.

• Remember Marvel's Moon Knight character? Johnny Ryan gives him the working-over he deserves.

• Hey, check out Jim Siergey's new website.

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• Wide Awake Press photos from the recent Greenville Comic Show

• The rumor that Scott Saavedra's Comic Book Heaven is being killed has been greatly exaggerated. Well, okay, slightly exaggerated. Scott reports that CBH "will return in some printed form next year."

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I Hate Cartoons Animation Festival
at the Victoria Theatre
2961 16th St. & Mission, SF
Easily accessible to BART via the 16th St. Bart Station!
August 6+7 Fri. & Sat.
show starts promptly at 10PM (tix available at 9pm)
Tickets are 10 dollars.

The I Hate Cartoons Animation Festival is a one of a kind show which combines an onslaught of independent animations mixed with Human Cartoon Performances.

This two hour show features animations from:
Happy Tree Friends, Dan the Automator,Milky Elephant, new films from Liam Lynch (of Sifl & Olly fame), Billy Blob, Gobler Toys, Dino Ignacio, the Skyflakes, Michael Slack, Nina Paley, Mr.Mr., Seth Arp, and 25 of the best world reknown & underground animators!
From Silly Sweet to Disturbed and Beautiful...
and just added: Films from the Bill Plympton Archives!

With captivating vaudville style performances by David Capurro, the Yo Yo King (star of the Jim Rose Cicus Reality show, as seen on Jimmie Kimmel Live) and super special secret human cartoon guests as well as a few other suprises.

The festival is being produced by underground artist and renegade toy designer Attaboy (www.yumfactory.com), who will also host each showing and provide giveaways for each audience. The show is being curated and compiled by Attaboy and animator Seth Arp and is suggested for (im)mature audiences.
There is some adult subject matter.

This special showing is also the premiere launch of Johnny Voodoo!: a large 13 inch cursed blue doll straight from the pages of the Gobler Toys Book and Cartoons. His Eyes Glow! Don't Look at him and his combable top knot for he is Johnny Voodoo! Available at Both showings while supplies last.

I Hate Cartoons Animation Festival plays the Victoria Theatre
August 6+7 Fri. & Sat.
Box Office Opens at 9PM
show starts at 10.
Reserve tox by calling the Victoria.
for more info go to:
www.yumfactory.com/ihcvictoria.html
www.victoriatheatre.org

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A new special issue of Stripburger is out! Instead of a voluminous topic edition, we prepared a collection of mini-comics by thirteen artists for this year's special issue. This goody bag contains comics from Korea to France - with a strong domestic turnout as well ?covering topics from dreams and childhood memories to folk tales and fantastic adventures.

Big stories in a small format!

Participating artists are Vladan Nikolic, Aleksandar Opacic & Wostok (Serbia and Montenegro), Koco, Primoz Krasna, Olmo Omerzu, David Krancan, Mina Zabnikar (Slovenia), Juhyun Choi (France/South Korea), M.S. Bastian (Switzerland), Miroslav Nemeth (Croatia), Cristoph Feist (Germany), Capucine Latrasse (France) and Mateusz Skutnik (Poland). The dozen black & white mini albums are accompanied by the lucky 13th album in full colour and all neatly packed in a box. Suitable for Christmas presents and reading on trains!

The Miniburger will be promoted in different exhibitions. The first of them already took place in Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina) at the Mostar Intercultural festival from July 5th to July 11th. Original artwork from the exhibition was accompanied by a workshop together with the Slic magazine from Serbia and Montenegro. This exhibition will also be shown in Angouleme (France) and possibly in Zagreb (Croatia) and Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro). Smaller presentations will also be made in August on the sunny Croatian coast from 3rd to 6th August in Zadar and from 11th to 16th August in Pula. Presentations, projections of animated films, exhibitions and workshops will take place in collaboration with Komikaze Editions.

E-mail for additional dates.

Miniburger and other Stripburger publications are available through our distributors worldwide.

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