Xeric Winners Go Top Shelf

TOP SHELF is publishing deluxe editions of two Xeric Award-winning books.

Lost Dogs by Jeff Lemire is a 104-page softcover graphic novel. Long out of print, this is a newly remastered edition, apparently soaked with blood and ink. The 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.

The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City is by Brendan Leach and 44-page oversized softcover graphic novel with stapled-in newsprint interiors.

It is a story of sibling rivalry and family tradition in a rapidly changing world: a version of 1904 New York where generations of working-class hot-air-balloonists take to the skies each night to defend their city from a dwindling population of pterodactyls. In this town, heroic hunter Eamon Sullivan dominates the headlines, while his brother Declan, a nightwatchman, tires of looking on. As the last pterodactyl and its trackers circle each other above four-story tenements, brick smokestacks, and wooden watchtowers, a face-to-face showdown may prove to be the end for all of them.