If you haven’t already read Upside Down: A Vampire Tale, then check out this four-page exclusive teaser at Comics Worth Reading! It makes a perfect gift for a little one, by the way (wink, wink). If you have read the book: how did you like it? Online reviews (especially at Amazon.com) are really helpful for readers who…
Heimo Korth is the last man standing in 19 million acres of Alaskan wilderness. His neighbors are polar bears and caribous. Say good bye to civilization and see how they do it in the arctic circle on the last frontier in America. In 1980, Jimmy Carter established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Alaskan…
Meet Johnny Boo & Harold in TRICKY TREATERS: Free at Your Comic Shop! This Halloween, Top Shelf’s spookiest and silliest all-ages characters are teaming up for a FREE mini-comic of all-new stories by James Kochalka and Jess Smart Smiley! We’re joining Diamond Comic Distributors’ Halloween ComicFest to bring you Tricky Treaters, a 12-page full-color comic book available at your local comic…
DRAWN INTERVIEW: TOP SHELF KID’S CLUB AUTHOR JESS SMART SMILEY Drawn Words blew our minds back in May with their fully-illustrated interview with comics creator Jeffrey Brown, and now they’re at it again, only they’ve significantly lowered their standards by interviewing me. In all honesty, I’m completely floored by the amount of thought and effort…
One of my biggest influences in drawing, comics and storytelling is a creative force known as Doug TenNapel. Doug has created video games, animated tv shows, and graphic novels, not to mention one of the world’s most beloved characters: Earthworm Jim. I’ve been following Doug’s work for 16 years now, and own all of his…
Upside Down: A Vampire Tale comes out next month from Top Shelf Productions — just in time for Halloween! Pre-orders will be shipping soon, but in the meantime…meet John and Randy: John and Randy are two crazy bats. They like to hit on ladybirds, talk about how great bats are, spook butterflies, and cause all kinds…
A fascinating storof that begins with a squirrel chewing on Andrew Blum’s Internet, and ending in secret switches and sub oceanic cables.
This is pretty cool: New York-based Pub Crawl is hosting “See How Magazines are Made”, an all-day in-depth tour of visiting the offices of popular magazines and getting a look at how the magazines are made. This year’s tour includes visits to Men’s Health, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Inked, People en Español and Seventeen magazines. The event will…
Upside Down: A Vampire Tale comes out next month — just in time for Halloween! Pre-orders ship later this month, but in the meantime…meet Vermillion: Vermillion is the last witch on Earth, which makes her extra nasty! Armed with a spell book written by Madame Rose, Vermillion is determined to get revenge on vampires everywhere and…