Chris Staros is the co-publisher of Top Shelf Productions, one of the most important US indy comics publishing house.

In the next months, Top Shelf will publish the complete edition – a 240 pages story - of the long awaited Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girl. Two issue of Lost Girls - 56 pages - were originally published in the mid-90s by Kitchen Sink Press.

And what is the "lost" story about? In 1913, at a hotel not far from Lake Constance, a liaison occurs between three different yet strangely familiar women. Between them, they conjure up an erotic dream world of childhood and fantasy, vivid and colorful, rising against the dark storm clouds of European history. They are the Lost Girls, and their story attempts to reinvent pornography as something exquisite, thoughtful, and human. For women. For men.

Plus, Top Shelf will also publish - with little changes - the Alan Moore’s Cobweb (ABC line) story rejected by DC because of its references to science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard and scientist/occultist John Whiteside Parsons.

For more info: http://www.topshelfcomix.com

It's funny, I never read comics as a kid. I "discovered" them in my late twenties in the Spring of 1990, stumbling onto a comic bookshop while waiting for my wife to get off work one day. And it was there that I happened to discover Alan Moore's graphic novel, V FOR VENDETTA. The impact of that one book was responsible for getting me into the comics business.

Alan made me realize the potential of comics, and also inspired me to make my most dreaded and obsessive internal statement: "I could do this!" -- and thus, a new obsession was born.

It's hard to believe that ten years later I'm actually working with Alan -- comics' all-time greatest creator -- by representing him and Eddie Campbell on FROM HELL and THE BIRTH CAUL, and actually publishing his and Melinda Gebbie's LOST GIRLS starting later this year.

When I flew to England to meet Alan and Melinda for the first time in person on April 20th, 2000, we spent the entire day together, with both of them treating me like a long lost friend. It was any fan's "dream day" for sure. From looking over Melinda's new "Lost" pages --- stunning! -- to listening to Alan explain the motivations for each scene and chapter, it was truly an amazing experience.

Alan Moore turned the comics world on its ear with Watchmen, Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Miracleman, From Hell, Big Numbers, and Lost Girls, and I for one can't wait to see what he's got up his sleeve next.

I'm truly a fan for life."

From left to right: Chris Staros, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie