Orders for Jeff Lemire's 'Underwater Welder' due this week

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From Top Shelf

June 28, 2012

	DIRECT MARKET ORDERS ARE DUE THIS WEEK FOR Jeff Lemire's UNDERWATER WELDER! Hey retailer friends, After the indie smash success of Essex County and the genre hits Sweet Tooth and Animal Man, superstar writer/artist Jeff Lemire is returning to Top Shelf for a thrilling and emotional new book that blends all those styles together. "This is, to put it bluntly, Lemire at his very best... Welder is an early and obvious contender for Graphic Novel of the Year." -- Matthew Meylikhov, Multiversity Comics This one's an absolute can't-miss, and it will hit stores on July 25. Orders are due to Diamond this week, so pull them in before this first printing sells out in pre-orders! It's going to move fast.

THE UNDERWATER WELDER by Jeff Lemire   Check out Jeff Lemire's interview in Diamond Previews!   THE UNDERWATER WELDER by Jeff Lemire -- 224-page softcover graphic novel with French Flaps -- For mature readers (16+) -- ISBN 978-1-60309-074-2 -- Diamond order code: JUN12-1298 -- $19.95 (US) From the award-winning writer/artist of Essex County and Sweet Tooth! As a deep-sea welder on a Canadian oilrig and a soon-to-be father, Jack Joseph's life is full of pressure... But he's about to discover something deep on the ocean floor that will change the course of his life forever. Equal parts blue-collar character study and mind-bending mystery, The Underwater Welder is a graphic novel about fathers and sons, birth and death, memory and reality, and the treasures we all bury deep below the surface. And don't forget to stock up on Jeff Lemire's other literary works! LOST DOGS -- 104-page softcover graphic novel, two-color -- For mature readers (16+) -- ISBN 978-1-60309-154-1 -- Diamond order code: FEB12-1158 -- $9.95 (US) Long out of print, Jeff Lemire's Xeric-Award-winning Lost Dogs returns in a newly remastered edition, soaked with blood and ink. This 104-page mythic yarn follows a family man who's larger than life... but even he may not be powerful enough to prevent the loss of everything he's ever known. Bold, brutal, and emotionally raw, Lost Dogs represents an acclaimed storyteller's first professional work -- an early exhibition of the gifts that have made his Essex County and Sweet Tooth so phenomenally popular.   ESSEX COUNTY -- 512-page softcover graphic novel with French Flaps -- For teens and mature readers (13+) -- ISBN 978-1-60309-038-4 -- Diamond order code: JUN09-1069 -- $29.95 (US) "This is the comics medium at its best." -- Booklist An award-winning modern classic, Jeff Lemire's Essex County is an intimate study of a rural Ontario community, and a tender meditation on family, memory, grief, secrets, and reconciliation. With the lush, expressive inking of a cartoonist at the height of his powers, Lemire draws us in and sets us free.