If there's one thing we've learnt about Self Made Hero in the last couple of years it's that they make REALLY good books, from graphic biographies, such as Reinhard Kleist's 'Cash: I See a darkness' or this years best selling 'Gonzo: a graphic biography of Hunter S. Thompson', to adaptations of much loved classics like 'Master and Margarita', 'Heart Of Darkness' and Ian Edginton and Ian Culbard's brillant series of Sherlock Holmes stories. Not once dropping the ball on a rapidly burgeoning collection of must have books, Self Made Hero have become our favorite British publisher by a mile.
So, to get to the point, what we are recommending as a perfect gift idea is a selection of their latest offerings in very limited signed and sketched or bookplate editions.
We have individually signed and sketched copies of Ian Culbards Adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 'At The Mountains Of Madness', Rob Davis' adaptation of Cervantes' 'Don Quixote' and Robert Sellers and JAKe's Cautionary tale of excess 'Hellraisers'
The bookplate editions are David B's 'Black Paths', Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal's graphic novel adaptation of their own award winning Film 'Chico & Rita' and finally but defintiely not least is the brilliant 'Sandcastle' by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters which was named Best Science Fiction Graphic Novel of 2011 at the recent Utopiales Science Fiction Festival!