Grass roots indie comic publisher that has now reached same hights as Fantagraphics or Drawn and quarterly. Two big hits kept this company afloat: Blankets (Craig Thompson) and From Hell (Alan Moore). Also the publishing house of Jeffrey Brown and James Kochalka. Had a lucky break when Alan Moore decided he never wanted to deal with Marvel, DC or any major publishing house again and switched to Topshelf.
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ASKER, NIKLAS : Second Thoughts |
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10 € |
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 New book from Swedish cartoonist Niklas Asker. A subtle tale about relationships and chance meetings.
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Any easy intimacy (AEIOU) |
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12 € |
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 Nice looking little book in which Jeffrey Brown continues his Girlfriend trilogy. Some people call Brown prolific, this means he draws a lot and published a lot of books. Its true, but he will never beat Lewis Trondheim, the man who publishes faster then his shadow
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Bighead |
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5 € |
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 A superhero parody about Bighead, a hero who has too much emotions. Humour in the Jeffrey Brown vain
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Clumsy |
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9 € |
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 The debut of smallpress rising star Jeffrey Brown telling the tale of a year long longdistancerelationship told in a jarring unchronological order. Praised by James Kochalka and Chris Ware.
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Every girl is the end of the world to me |
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7 € |
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 Five days in the life of Jeffrey Brown, just prior the turning of the year and all the hazy situations that those particular festivities bring with them. One of Browns best.
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Feeble attempts |
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5 € |
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 This one collects Jeffrey Browns anthology contributions. It's a comic with 48 pages so there are a few stories you might have encountered in such publications as McSweeneys but all in all this goes as far back as 2000 so pre-Clumsy era
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Minisulk |
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8 € |
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 Minicomic from smallpress star Jeffrey Brown. Humour this time, no relationship stuff (phew!)
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Sulk 1 |
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6,50 € |
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 Yes! More Bighead stories! Fun stuff
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Sulk 2 |
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9,50 € |
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 What the fuck is this? Jeffrey Brown doing a wrestle comic? this is an 80 page fight comic with pretty insightfull detail about martial arts fighting. Kinda like a manga actually. No, rephrase that into a mini-comic version of manga!
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Sulk 3 |
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6 € |
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 The latest edition of Jeffrey Brown's SULK, again demonstrating his skill at mixing the soft, the funny and the sad into excellent comics.
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BROWN, JEFFREY : Unlikely |
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13,5 € |
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 In my opinion still the best Jeffrey Brown book. A very nice buildup in short but powerful chapters of a doomed relationship. The second book in his so called girlfriend trilogy. In chronological this however depicts Jeffs first serious relationship
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CAMPBELL, EDDIE : Alec: the years have pants |
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32,5 € |
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 Allright folks, that's it. No need to make any autobiographical comics anymore. We have this book now. And that's all we need
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CAMPBELL, EDDIE : Egomania 1 |
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4 € |
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 bit of a weird mix of interviews, reports and comics by and about Eddie Campbell. Fun to see now how the movie premiere of From Hell was like, for example
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CONSIGLIO, TONY : 110% |
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10 € |
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 Watch three middleaged women go nuts over their idols, the boyband 110%. A funny sketch of over celebrity obsessed society
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DANGLE, LLOYD : Axis of trouble |
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4 € |
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 Political cartoons about the state of america. Funny but actually, it's all very sad as well at the same time.
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ELFWORLD : Elfworld #1 |
Anthology |
(Topshelf) |
7 € |
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 An anthology of alternative comic artists who were asked to write a fantasy story
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FRENCH, RENEE : Micrographica |
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(Topshelf) |
4 € |
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 Follow up to the successful The Ticking
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HART, TOM : Hutch Owen: Unmarketable !! |
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10 € |
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 your snotty rebel on a mission
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K., ULF : Hieronymus B., 1997-2007 |
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12 € |
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 hardcover novel with a collection of the wordless stories of this strange clerk who gets confronted with a variety of peculiar events and beings.
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KINDT, MATT : Mephisto and the empty box |
Comic book |
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3 € |
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 The Pistolwhip Boys' exciting premiere continues as they conjure up a moody and enigmatic tale of one man's obsession with lost love and newfound magic.
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KINDT, MATT : Superspy |
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(Topshelf) |
19,5 € |
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 Very well received (critically and commercially) spy book
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KNIGHT, KEITH : Are we feeling safer yet? |
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(Topshelf) |
10 € |
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 I found a couple of copies which i never bothered to put online: political cartoons of a black comic artist
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : American Elf volume 2 |
Comic book |
(Topshelf) |
20 € |
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 This second volume has all the strips from 2004 and 2005 in full colour
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Conversations 1 |
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4,5 € |
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 Small cd sized comic in which the two artists go heads on in a discussion about art and religion. The more religious talk comes ofcourse from Craig Thompson but the skinnydipping in a cold ocean is Kochalka's idea.
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Conversations 2 |
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(Topshelf) |
4,5 € |
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 James Kochalka takes on Jeffrey Brown
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Johnny Boo, the little ghost |
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10 € |
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 I guess it was just a matter of time before Kochalka started making comics for little children.Because you know, he's still a kid himself. But you know, i kind of liked the juxtaposition of his cute stories/drawings with the booze and cursing
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Johnny Boo book 2: Twinkle Power |
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10 € |
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 The beautiful, innocently funny second volume of Johnny Boo's adventures.
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Johnny Boo book 3: Johnny Boo & the Happy Apples |
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10 € |
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 Stylish, cute and funny, this is the third volume of the ghost boy's adventures.
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Magic Boy and Robot Elf |
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5 € |
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 Kochalka goes Kubrick
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Perfect Plan |
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12 € |
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 "We are all in danger of becoming old jaded cynical fucks" is the first sentence of this novel. Go, James, go!
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Sketchbook diaries 1 |
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7 € |
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 Kochalka's daily diary. first part
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Sketchbook diaries 2 |
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7 € |
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 Kochalka's daily diary. part 2
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Sketchbook diaries 3 |
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(Topshelf) |
7 € |
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 Kochalka's daily diary. part 3
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Superfuckers 2 |
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5 € |
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 Teenage superhero teamspirit! Let's all sing the superf*ckers song!
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Superfuckers 3 |
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6 € |
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 Love and Romance, Betrayal and Head injuries between the members of this teenage superhero team.
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KOCHALKA, JAMES : Superfuckers 4 |
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5 € |
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 the universe ends...
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LEMIRE, JEFF : Complete Essex County |
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30 € |
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 Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What could change two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the work of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deception?
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MARTINSON, LARS : Tonoharu 1 |
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19,5 € |
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 A Xeric winning award novel
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MAWIL : Beach safari (secondhand) |
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(Topshelf) |
5 € |
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 Cute yet sad story of a bunny who gets entangled with a teenage angst heartbroken girl.
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MILLS, SCOT : Big Clay Pot |
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(Topshelf) |
2 € |
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 For two euros we can't complain, now can we.
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MILLS, SCOT : The masterplan |
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2 € |
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 For two euros i would dig this album. In the grand tradition of the works of Arthur C Clarke, Stephen Baxter, and Stephen Hawking comes a 300-page graphic novel that bends the very concept of sci-fi to its limits.
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PENCILFIGHT : Pencilfight #3 |
Anthology |
(Topshelf) |
4,5 € |
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 An anthology that i put in stock because it has contributions by Craig Thompson and Brian Ralph. Was nominated for a Harvey award this year
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POWELL, NATE : Please release |
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5 € |
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 Please Release collects together four of Nate Powell's autobiographical tales into one compact volume.
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POWELL, NATE : Swallow me whole |
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19,5 € |
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 Nate Powell's Swallow me whole is an exploration of the dark corners of growing up among illnesses of both mind and body, secrets, faith, and even a little bit of hope. Winner of Eisner and Ignatz award for best graphic novel
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PRINCE, LIZ : Delayed Replays |
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4 € |
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 Jeffrey Brown alike cute strips about banal events
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PRINCE, LIZ : Will you still love me if i wet the bed? |
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4 € |
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 How can you go wrong with a title like that? Isn't that why we love comics so much? You can pick up this small publication knowing that somebody poured their heart over it and it's cheap as hell
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ROBINSON, ALEX : BOP! More box office poison |
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6 € |
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 OP! is an 88-page trade paperback reprinting all of those short stories including all of the SPXAnthology shorts, the Box Office Poison Kolor Karnival (seen here in glorious black and white), and some extra goodies.
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ROBINSON, ALEX : Too cool to be forgotten |
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14 € |
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 Live your highschool years again with the mind of a 40 year old. In short, the content of this book. Andy Wicks tries too quit smoking, tries hypnosis and ends up living his highschool year again.
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ROBINSON, ALEX : Tricked |
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30 € |
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 Tricked follows the lives of six people -- a reclusive rock legend, a heartbroken waitress, a counterfeiter, an obsessive crank, a lost daughter, and a frustrated lover -- whose lives are unconnected until an act of violence brings them spiraling in on each other.
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RUIJTERS, MARCEL : Troglodytes |
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4 € |
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 An anthropological undertaking in comics form, this gritty collection of stories examines the lifestyles, religion, reproductive nature, and hierarchy of a complex, subterranean species. Racy and provocative, these fictional tales resonate with the primal nature of man
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RUNTON, ANDY : Owly 2 |
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10 € |
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RUNTON, ANDY : Owly 3 |
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10 € |
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RUNTON, ANDY : Owly vol 5: Tiny Tales |
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10 € |
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 A collected edition of Runton's shorter Owly strips, charming silent stories about Owly and his animal friends.
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SIEVERT, TIM : That Salty Air |
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9,5 € |
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 Hugh is a fisherman with a special relationship to the sea, a relationship based on respect and reverence. But when Hugh feels that the sea has betrayed him, his whole existence is thrown out of whack.
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STRIPBURGER : Stripburger 49 |
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6 € |
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 49th issue of the international comics anthology. English throughout, unless it's in Slovenian. Book of translations provided!
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STRIPBURGER : Stripburger 52 |
Anthology |
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6 € |
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 52nd issue of the international comics anthology. English throughout, unless it's in Slovenian.
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THOMPSON, CRAIG : Carnet de voyage |
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14,5 € |
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 A personal diary of Thompsons travels through Europe and Morocco in the spring of 2004. Carnet de Voyage has a very spontaneous and honest feeling to it. To his credit i must also mention that Thompson didn't use any cameras for this books, so all sketched are quickly drawn by hand, at the spot and not corrected.
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TINDER, JEREMY : Cry yourself to sleep |
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6 € |
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 Cry Yourself to Sleep explores the disappointments of early adulthood by following the lives of three unique characters.
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TOPSHELF ON PARADE : Topshelf on parade 7 |
Anthology |
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3 € |
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 I ordered this compilation from Top Shelf because i thought it came extra cheap. But it didn't. It's still quite ok, though. Consider this a showcase for various unknown top shelf authors. Early outings here by Ron Rege, Jr., Jason Little & Myla Goldberg, Shannon Wheeler, Pat Moriarty, Dean Haspiel, Fawn G., Sam Henderson, Rich Tommaso and more
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