Álvaro Ortiz

This February Top Shelf Productions will release Ashes, a new graphic novel from internationally renowned Spanish cartoonist Álvaro Ortiz. Top Shelf provided us with a special preview of the upcoming book — you can check out the first six pages below. Ashes is about Polly, Moho and Piter — three old friends who have decided to reunite for old time’s sake on one last road trip. Of course if they’re not careful, it will be their last anything– they quickly wind up in a lot of trouble that involves criminals, car chases and, apparently, “a ship graveyard.” They may not even survive each other — old wounds come to the surface during this trip and they quickly begin bickering in between brushes with death (or at least injury). Ashes will be released February 7 in bookstores and comic shops. It looks like this! Three old friends reunite for the mother of all road trips! One of Spain’s most brilliant graphic novelists finally makes his English-language debut in this elegantly unpredictable