 SWALLOW ME WHOLE
by Nate Powell
"A cartoonist's cartoonist, Powell employs stunning technique in some of the most complex, elusive stories in the comics medium... Frame by frame, his work is more varied in every way than that of most other comics artists, yet he unfailingly maintains narrative momentum by carrying over details from one panel to the next, no matter how altered the angle of vision. Brilliant. -- Ray Olson, BOOKLIST
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. Two adolescent stepsiblings hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, family breakdown, animal telepathy, misguided love, and the tiniest nugget of hope that the heart, that sanity, that order itself will take shape again. -- 216-Page deluxe HARDCOVER Graphic Novel, Mature (16+), 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", Diamond Order Code: JUL084290, ISBN 978-1-60309-033-9, $19.95 (US) 
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 FROM THE SHADOW OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
Edited by Galago
Originally inspired by the counterculture work of Robert Crumb, the comical aspect of MAD and the storytelling of the master director Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish magazine Galago began as a publication of political satire during the late 70s. In the three decades since, it has grown to become the flagship of the Swedish alternative comics scene. The anthology, FROM THE SHADOW OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, gathers 200 pages of some of the finest comic artists Galago and Sweden has to offer, including contributions from David Liljemark, Marcus Ivarsson, Mats Jonsson, Knut Larsson, Kolbeinn Karlsson, Liv Strömquist, & Loka Kanarp.
The Swedish comics community -- after years of hard work -- has developed into one of the most important comics scenes in the EU, on par with the indy scenes in the U.S. and France. Pick up this anthology and see why. -- 200-Page Anthology, 6 5/8" x 9 5/8", Mature (16+), ISBN 978-1-60309-011-7, Diamond Order Code: JUL084292, $19.95
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Hey, Bartender! The Top Shelf Blog
04 July 2008
Ink-stud extraordinaire Steve Lafler writes:
"Just a heads up -- my new book TRANNY: Boys Will Be Girls is in the current Diamond Previews catalog on Page 330 (listed with Sparkplug Comic books). ..
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 IN THE CURRENT DIAMOND PREVIEWS!
VEEPS
by Bill Kelter and Wayne Shellabarger
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? Or the one whose President went to his death regretting that he hadn’t had his Vice President hanged? Or the one who was too frequently inebriated to serve out the whole of his term? Over more than 200 years, the American voters have sent a platoon of rogues, cowards, drunks, featherweights, doddering geriatrics, 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", ISBN 978-1-60309-003-2, Diamond Order Code: JUL084291, $19.95
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Congratulations to Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, and Christian Slade for their Harvey Award Nominations this year:
