2009: The Year of the ALEC!

Eddie Campbell's autobiographical masterpiece ALEC is returning in 2009 from Top Shelf -- a gorgeous brick of a book in two deluxe formats (hardcover and paperback) designed by The Criterion Collection's Eric Skillman! Over at the Comics Reporter, the excellent Tom Spurgeon recently caught up with Eddie about the new ALEC omnibus and his other new projects. Check out the interview, won't you? And click below for more details on ALEC: THE YEARS HAVE PANTS!

• Alec: The Years Have Pants -- HARDCOVER -- $59.95 (US) - PRE-ORDER
• Alec: The Years Have Pants -- $39.95 (US) - PRE-ORDER

VOICE OF THE FIRE
(PAPERBACK EDITION)
by Alan Moore

While the hardcover edition is now sold out, Alan Moore's incredible novel will be available in paperback starting March 2009! (with an Introduction by Neil Gaiman, a signature of full-color plates by José Villarrubia, and a cover design by Chip Kidd).

In a story full of lust, madness and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over the span of six thousand years. Their narratives are woven together in patterns of recurring events, strange traditions and uncanny visions. First, a cave-boy loses his mother, falls in love and learns a deadly lesson. He is followed by an extraordinary cast of characters: a murderess who impersonates her victim, a Roman emissary who realizes the bitter truth about the Empire, a crippled nun who is healed miraculously by a disturbing apparition, two witches, lovers, who burn at the stake, and many more. Through each tale, Moore travels through history blending truth and conjecture, in a novel that is dazzling, moving, sometimes tragic, but always mesmerizing. -- A 304-Page Softcover Novel with a Full-Color Signature, 5 1/2" x 8", Mature (16+), Note New ISBN: 978-1-60309-035-3, $14.95

CLUMSY
(new printing)
by Jeffrey Brown

"You can open to any page and find something unusually bare and honest about these stories. They're surprising, even though half the moments in the book are ones you've probably experienced yourself. Hard trick to pull off." -- Ira Glass, This American Life, NPR

Clumsy is Jeffrey Brown's debut work -- a book praised by Chris Ware and hailed by James Kochalka as his "favorite graphic novel ever." -- has sold out, yet again, and is being reprinted. Clumsy is the bittersweet story of a year-long, long-distance relationship, told through snippets of everyday life, drawn in a simple and elegantly awkward style that heightens the emotional impact and leaves you reminiscing about your own past love affairs. It also has a lot of sex. -- 232 pages, Mature (18+), Diamond: STAR18186, ISBN 978-0-9713597-6-5, $10.00

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

VEEPS
by Bill Kelter and Wayne Shellabarger

"I never thought there was anything funny about our vice-presidents, until I read VEEPS, a welcome, often hilarious respite from the tedium of national politics." --Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

It's a tired but true cliché that every American Vice President is just a heartbeat away from the most powerful job in the world … a job they've often never really interviewed for. Who are these people? We all know about the one who shot his hunting partner in the face, but how about the tavern owner who once married one of his slaves and then sold her at auction when she tried to leave him? Over more than 200 years, the American voters have sent a platoon of rogues, cowards, drunks, featherweights, bigots, and atrocious spellers to Washington D.C. to sit one bullet, cerebral hemorrhage, or case of pneumonia away from the highest office in the land. VEEPS tells the sordid, head-scratching, perversely-entertaining stories of these men we've chosen to ride shotgun in the biggest rig in democracy, without ever seriously considering the possibility that they might have to take the wheel. -- 296-Page Illustrated Hardcover (Non-Fiction), 5 5/8" x 8 1/2", Mature (16+), Diamond: JUL084291, ISBN 978-1-60309-003-2, $19.95

SULK (VOL 2): DEADLY AWESOME
by Jeffrey Brown

In DEADLY AWESOME, Jeffrey Brown explores the world of mixed martial arts in this tribute to no holds barred fighting. In an 80-page fight scene, aging veteran fighter Haruki Rabasaku faces off against young powerhouse Eldark Garprub. With furious striking and technical submission wrestling, this story will entertain readers unfamiliar with the world of cage fighting as well as long time fans of ultimate fighting. -- 96 pages, ISBN 978-1-60309-031-5, Mature (16+), $10.00

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SWALLOW ME WHOLE
by Nate Powell

WINNER OF THE 2008 "OUTSTANDING DEBUT" IGNATZ AWARD!

Swallow Me Whole is a love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucination, apophenia, insect armies, secrets held, unshakeable faith, and the search for a master pattern to make sense of one's unraveling.

In his most ambitious book to date, Nate Powell quietly explores the dark corners of adolescence -- not the clichéd melodramatic outbursts of rebellion, but the countless tiny moments of madness, the vague relief of medication, and mixed blessing of family ties. As the story unfolds, two stepsiblings hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, family breakdown, animal telepathy, misguided love, and the tiniest hope that everything will someday make sense.

Swallow Me Whole is a landmark achievement for Nate Powell and a suburban ghost story that will haunt readers long after its final pages. -- 216-Page Deluxe HARDCOVER Graphic Novel, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", Diamond: JUL084290, ISBN 978-1-60309-033-9, Mature (16+), $19.95

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