Graphic Novels
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"Tony Consiglio is a natural-born cartoonist; his drawings are funny, sharp, and uncluttered. Upon his incisive line he somehow manages to balance both misanthropy and a sympathy for human foibles. He may skewer his characters (sometimes literally), but I suspect that, deep down, he has a tender …
2 Sisters
by Matt Kindt
"There's enough swashbuckling, pen guns, cyanide teeth, buried treasure and nail-biting suspense to grip the interest of all readers." -- Wizard Magazine
From the creator of Super Spy, and the artist and co-creator of Pistolwhip and Mephisto (with Jason Hall) comes a World War II spy thriller …
A Disease of Language
by Eddie Campbell and Alan Moore
The Birth Caul and Snakes & Ladders, Alan Moore’s visionary, highly personal magic based performance art pieces as adapted by Eddie Campbell, are collected together for the first time ever in A Disease of Language. Along with an insightful and expansive interview with Moore conducted by Campbell, …
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Abe: Wrong for the Right Reasons
by Glenn Dakin
Sporting a glowing introduction by the master of "veiled autobiography," Eddie Campbell, this graphic novel features all of Glenn Dakin's ABE stories from the British comix scene. If you're not familiar with Dakin's work, Glenn has, for the last nineteen years, been one of England's best …
AEIOU or Any Easy Intimacy
"Jeffrey Brown's work is not precious, broken-heart type stuff, but instead renders the terrific blanches and indelible happiness one can inflict upon another." -- Jennifer Przybylski, Rain Taxi
"Brown is a consummate storyteller, with a mixture of believable dialogue that carries both wistful …
American Elf (Book 1)
Winner of the Ignatz Award for both Outstanding Comic and Outstanding Online Comic.
"Absolutely impossible to encapsulate into a single review, Kochalka’s eminently likeable SKETCHBOOK DIARIES are a singular experience in the world of comics ... Comics’ foremost optimist, Kochalka really …
American Elf (Book 1) (hardcover)
THE 1ST HARDCOVER EDITION OF AMERICAN ELF
To celebrate the 5-year anniversary of James Kochalka's critically acclaimed SKETCHBOOK DIARIES series, Top Shelf will also produce a hardcover edition of AMERICAN ELF. This is a web exclusive, with the first printing limited to 500 copies. -- 520 pages.
American Elf (Book 2)
"Kochalka is disarmingly honest about the details of his life -- sex, diapers, career anxiety and all -- rendered here in vivid colors that accentuate his sense of joy in the mundane. At turns conventionally funny, poignant and simply absurd, the compelling thing about an American Elf book is that …
American Elf (Book 3)
Winner of the Ignatz Award for both Outstanding Comic & Outstanding Online Comic.
"Few people keep a diary as consistently and as entertainingly as James Kochalka. [His] tiny strips convey the personalities of him, his family and friends with astounding and impressive ease. Grade: A" -- Tom …
Are We Feeling Safer Yet?
"A brilliant, deceptively straightforward comic, unique in its genre..."(th)ink" is great." --Ted Rall
"Point blank: Keith Knight is one of our generation's best cartoonists. If he were any funnier, he'd be illegal." --Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop, Won't Stop
The latest collection …
Awesome 2: Awesomer
Edited by Indie Spinner Rack's Charlito and Mr. Phil!
You can't keep a great indie anthology down! The boys at Indie Spinner Rack have been producing the premiere indie comics podcast for over three years, and in 2007 produced the aptly-titled AWESOME anthology. Now they're back, along with a …
Banks/Eubanks
by Tom Hart
The Comics Journal has raved, "There's nobody better at telling a story than Tom Hart", and Banks/Eubanks is an ambitious tale told with simplicity, wit, and the unique combination of wild antics and deep insight that is his signature. Set in summertime Boston (and central Florida during a tropical …
The Barefoot Serpent (hardcover)
by Scott Morse
The Barefoot Serpent is also available in a deluxe hardcover edition. A special Top Shelf exclusive:
First Printing: 300 copies.
The Barefoot Serpent (softcover)
by Scott Morse
"Both Kurosawa and Scott are storytellers who can work on an intimate scale or on grand epics, but the focus is always on the individual, on characters, and that is what makes them succeed." -- Stan Sakai, from the introduction
"The union of a biography about a master filmmaker [Akira Kurosawa] to …
Beach Safari
by Mawil
"Stunning in both its simplicity and its depth. . . . By the time you finish reading Beach Safari, you’ll be begging for more." -- Greg McElhatton, icomics.com
A whimsical and beautifully illustrated allegory by German newcomer, Mawil Witzel. BEACH SAFARI is a surreal tale of a male bunny …
Big Clay Pot
by Scott Mills
An historical novel set in ancient Japan, told with heart and a bellyful of laughs. With his sensitive take on humanity and his completely original artistic vision, Scott Mills' thoughtful tale of early Japan has already proven itself quite popular. ... It has been several thousand years since the …
Bighead
"... Besides being a superior parody, Bighead slyly reveals the author's personal issues and in some ways, everyone's." -- Andrew Arnold, Time
"Bighead is great, great fun to read; it crackles with energy and a love for the genre of the super hero. Brown takes the silly conventions that weigh …
Blankets (softcover)
Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards for Best Graphic Novel and Best Cartoonist.
"A rarity: a first-love story so well remembered and honest that it reminds you what falling in love feels like … achingly beautiful." -- Time Magazine
"Blankets is a great American novel. -- Andrew …
Blankets Soundtrack
TRACKER: RECORDINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATED NOVEL, BLANKETS
This summer, Top Shelf will co-release with FILMguerrero something we've never produced before, an official soundtrack to one of our graphic novels! Produced by John Askew and featuring the instrumental recordings of the Portland, Oregon …
Bop!
"Alex Robinson manages to do something I frightfully admire: create something that's more than just "slice of life" stories. A must-read." -- John "Widgett" Robinson, Need Coffee
More Box Office Poison stories from Alex Robinson! What you might not know is that there were several short stories …
Box Office Poison (hardcover)
The new edition of Box Office Poison is also available in a deluxe hardcover edition. A Top Shelf exclusive.
First Printing: 300 copies.
Box Office Poison (softcover)
Winner of the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, the International Comics Festival Award for Best Debut Graphic Novel (Angouleme, France), and voted by Wizard Magazine as the best indy graphic novel of all time.
"A convincing, absorbing and satisfying fictional portrait of …
Bughouse (Vol 1)
by Steve Lafler
"Steve Lafler's comics will have you keeling over backwards with laughter." - Peter Bagge, Hate ... BUGHOUSE is cartoonist Steve Lafler's graphic novel about the life of a jazz band of the same name. Set in an "insect noir" Manhattan of the early fifties, BUGHOUSE is built on an ensemble of …
Bughouse (Vol 2): Baja
by Steve Lafler
Bones the bass player, youngest member of premier jazz band Bughouse, is on the lam from the law! Framed by gangster Johnny Muggles, Bones heads south to Mexico while things cool off in Bugtown. Intrigue, romance and some very funky rockin' blues ensue as our man Bones hooks up with a group of …
Bughouse (Vol 3): Scalawag
by Steve Lafler
Dennis, the new piano player in Bughouse, is by all accounts a very funky musician and a genial chap. But before long, the real Dennis reveals himself as a gambling, lying, cheating, two-timing, drunken thief and all around Scalawag! Only when he encounters his doppelganger “Dennnis”, does …
Carnet de Voyage
"Thought provoking and touching." -- Publishers Weekly
"With all of its pages drawn from life, here at last we have one continuous journey, rich with detail of place and characters, told with humor, pathos and insight." -- Andrew Arnold, Time
"Thompson goes far beyond 'objective reporting', …
Cicada: A Broken Fender Book
Josué Menjivar is back (!) with a moving and emotional graphic novel entitled, CICADA. Examining the emotional scars that infidelity can produce, this graphic novel intelligently relates the guilt that one man carries to the hibernation cycle of the cicada. Fans of BROKEN FENDER know how Josué is …
Clumsy
"You can open to any page and find something unusually bare and honest about these stories. They're surprising, even though half the moments in the book are ones you've probably experienced yourself. Hard trick to pull off." -- Ira Glass, host and producer of public radio's This American …
Coffee and Donuts
by Max Estes
"Estes is a superstar in the making!" -- Giant Robot Magazine
"A bittersweet tale of breakfast and bank robbery told through the eyes of some trouser-wearing felines. There's a child-like innocence to these drawings that makes you sure that Max Estes has lived in a dumpster with a couple of stray …
Creature Tech
"TenNapel may be Generation X’s answer to Dr. Seuss." -- People Magazine
"Creature Tech has everything you could possibly want in a graphic novel. . . . Best of all, every page is a work of art. Doug TenNapel is brilliant!"-- Linda Simensky, Cartoon Network
Good battles evil, and the …
Cry Yourself to Sleep
"A tiny gem. Tinder no doubt has a long career ahead of him." -- Troy Brownfield, Newsarama
"Cry Yourself to Sleep has adorable characters, a great sense of humor and, at its core, very real emotions. Take a break for your Crisis on Infinite Civil Wars and discover a rabbit, a video store clerk …
Daydream Lullabies (Billy Dogma)
by Dean Haspiel
Billy Dogma - the last romantic anti-hero - is so confused, his guns shoot everything but bullets. Come witness his surrealistic "battles" with the most bizarre group of adversaries ever assembled, as his girlfriend, Jane Legit, questions his grip on reality, yet unconditionally encourages his …
Dear Julia,
by Brian Biggs
"This is a thoughtfully creative book in the vanguard of our medium." -- Will Eisner
"Like Edward Gorey, Brian Biggs creates little graphic novellas of genteel malignance and madness." -- CMJ Magazine
Boyd Soloman believes he can fly and is eight floors above a San Francisco street …
Delayed Replays
by Liz Prince
"It’s hard not to love the endearingly funny, sketchbook journal-style autobiographical comics of Liz Prince. ... If you don’t feel good about life (or comics) after reading Liz’s stuff your heart is a black hole of weirdness." -- David Paggi & Kiel Phegley, Wizard's Indie Jones
DELAYED …
