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Top Shelf is proud to be one of the five international publishers simultaneously releasing Hieronymus B the all-new hardcover graphic novel from award-winning German cartoonist Ulf K Winner of Max & Moritz Prize for Best Cartoonist at the International Comic Salon in Erlangen Ulf K is best known for his endearing silent stories & this graphic novel
- featuring tales of the loveable & humble clerk Hieronymus B
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In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic & Early Renaissance Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c 1450-1516) was more than an anomaly Bosch&s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire fantasy & angst One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural & scenic representations known as drolleries which use the monstrous & the grotesque to illustrate sin & evil & to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings Alongside traditional hybrids of man & beast such as centaurs & mythological creatures such as unicorns devils dragons & griffins we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs & figures of speech in common use in Bosch&s day In his Temptation of St Anthony triptych for example the artist shows a messenger devil wearing ice skates evoking the popular expression that the world was "skating on ice"-meaning it had gone astray In his pictorial translation of proverbs in particular Bosch was very much an innovator Bosch-whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken-was widely copied & imitated the number of surviving works by Bosch&s followers exceeds the master&s own production by more than tenfold Today only 20 paintings & eight drawings are confidently assigned to Bosch&s oeuvre He continues to be seen as a visionary a portrayer of dreams & nightmares & the painter par excellence of hell & its demons Featuring brand new photography of recently restored paintings this book covers the artist&s complete works Discover Bosch&s pictorial inventions in splendid reproductions with copious details Art historian & acknowledged Bosch expert Stefan Fischer examines just what it was about Bosch & his painting that proved so immensely influential ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Spanish psychological thriller Elena Anaya stars as Maria a mother who loses her young son while heading off on holiday to the island of El Hierro by ferry When the police find what they believe to be the boy&s body on the island Maria is adamant that it is not him However the police order her to stay on the island until a DNA test has been carried out During her time there the distraught Maria is haunted by paranoid dreams & hallucinations as she sets out on her own personal quest to find her missing son ...

Tracklist A Heavy Written-By ? C Waters S Dickson 312 B Heavy Dub Written-By ? C Waters S Dickson 306 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Two years after losing contact Akira discovers that his long-lost brother has been seen on a remote island that does not even exist on the map! He decides to investigate the story with several friends They find their way to Higanjima a dark & mysterious place but what has happened to the island&s inhabitants? They learn too late that they have been lured into a trap & are quickly surrounded by blood-thirsty vampires Now the friends must fight for their survival & find a way to escape from Higanjima
- the isle of vampires Actors Kôji Yamamoto Takahiro Tsutsumi & Masatoshi Yamamoto Director Tae-gyun Kim Certificate 18 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages Japanese
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 57 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A tense urban thriller Moe Jones is a young African-American attorney whose college buddy suddenly resurfaces suggesting Moe represent a large corporation&s inner city real estate deal When Moe discovers that his new client&s interest is not urban redevelopment to help the less fortunate but a ploy to monopolise the drug market he is confronted with his own integrity
- & personal survival in the unfamiliar life-threatening world of gangs & drug-dealing
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