2012 Releases
Here's everything Top Shelf has planned for 2012 (so far!) listed in order of release (with January featuring a few re-offers of key titles from the previous year). Do yourself a favor this year and try some things that you're not that familiar with. You won't be disappointed.
And click on the links for a quick look at the entire publishing schedule; our mature-reader perennials, and our all-ages perennials.
January 2012

Infinite Kung Fu
by Kagan McLeod
One of YALSA's Top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens!
Named one of the best graphic novels of the year by Publishers Weekly, Heeb Magazine, io9, CNN, Comic Book Resources, Complex, USA Today, Forbidden Planet International, IFC, ComicsAlliance, Paste, and Graphic Novel Reporter!
"Pure …

Any Empire
by Nate Powell
Named one of the best graphic novels of the year by The AV Club, Comic Book Resources, Complex, and Graphic Novel Reporter!
"The most prodigiously talented graphic novelist of his [generation] ... Powell's exceptional visual-storytelling gift transforms a potentially obvious antiwar parable into …

Lucille
"Moving and rich." -- GQ France
“Lucille impresses as much by the power of its drawing as by the subtlety of its dialogue and plotting... it alternates tender moments of joy with scenes that evoke tears... Tremendous.” -- Didier Pasamonik, ActuaBD
"A coherent, compelling narrative... …

The Homeland Directive
by Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Named one of the year's best graphic novels by CNN, Complex, IFC, School Library Journal, Library Journal, and USA Today!
"A great, paranoid read for the modern age." -- Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
"Venditti’s cat-mouse thriller demands edge-of-your-seat …

Blankets
A BRAND NEW SOFTCOVER EDITION OF BLANKETS -- RESIZED & WITH A NEW COVER!
Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards for Best Graphic Novel and Best Cartoonist.
"Thompson describes the ecastasy and ache of obsession (with a lover and with God)." -- The New York Times Book Review
"A …

Blankets -- HARDCOVER
A BRAND NEW HARDCOVER EDITION OF BLANKETS -- RESIZED & WITH A NEW COVER!
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security …
March 2012

Cleveland
by Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant
“One of the very greatest works by that unique and irreplaceable American voice, the truly splendorous Harvey Pekar... graced by the impeccable and poignant artistry of Joseph Remnant.” -- From the introduction by Alan Moore
A lifelong resident of Cleveland, Ohio, Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) …

Blue
by Pat Grant
Blue is the debut graphic novel of Australian cartoonist Pat Grant. It's a fascinating blend of autobiography and fiction with a sci-fi twist: in a seaside Australian town struggling with alien tentacle-creature immigration, a trio of aimless teenagers skip school to go surfing, chase rumors of a …
April 2012

Lost Dogs
by Jeff Lemire
Long out of print, Jeff Lemire's Xeric-Award-winning LOST DOGS now returns in a newly remastered edition, soaked with blood and ink. This 104-page 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 …

The Pterodactyl Hunters
PTERODACTYL HUNTERS 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 …
May 2012

The Lovely Horrible Stuff
Money makes the world go around, as they say. And around. And around.
Eddie Campbell is an award-winning graphic novelist (Alec, From Hell) whose work defies categorization. His latest book is a dizzying autobiographical investigation into MONEY. It's a voyage that takes him all the way from …

Top Shelf Kids Club -- 2012 (FCBD)
by Chris "Elio" Eliopoulos and Ray Friesen and James Kochalka and Andy Runton and Christian Slade and Jess Smart Smiley
A TOP SHELF KIDS CLUB COMIC BOOK!
Top Shelf is proud to join the 2012 FREE COMIC BOOK DAY celebration with not one, but SIX all-ages tales. In this FCBD edition, we present adventures from our kid-favorite titles: OWLY by Andy Runton, JOHNNY BOO by James Kochalka, KORGI by Christian Slade, OKIE …
June 2012

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol III): Century #3 - 2009
by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
Co-Published By Top Shelf Productions & Knockabout
In CHAPTER THREE, the narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London 2009. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised …

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol III): Century #2 - 1969
by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
Co-Published By Top Shelf Productions & Knockabout
CHAPTER TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1969, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are …

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol III): Century #1 - 1910
by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
A New York Times Bestseller!
"While the premise of mixing and matching famed fictional figures has lost some of its novelty, the thrill of how adroitly and intelligently Moore does it remains. O’Neill’s detailed art matches the intricacy of Moore’s design, …
July 2012

Wizzywig
by Ed Piskor
They say What You See Is What You Get... but Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle could always see more than most people. In the world of phone phreaks, hackers, and scammers, he's a legend. His exploits are hotly debated: could he really get free long-distance calls by whistling into a pay phone? Did his …
August 2012

The Underwater Welder
by Jeff Lemire
Pressure. As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from …
October 2012

Upside Down (Book 1): A Vampire Tale
A TOP SHELF KIDS CLUB BOOK!
Harold is a friendly young vampire —but he loves candy so much, the dentist might have to pull his teeth! Now, what if he and the dentist, plus a couple friendly bats, all get caught up in the evil plots of the local witch? It’s a wild magical romp for all ages, …








