Graphic Novels
Free Pass
"Free Pass is an optimistic, clever and amusing look at where we are heading as a society. And Julian’s use of colour is gorgeous." — Chester Brown, author of Ed the Happy Clown, Paying for It, and Louis Riel
"Hanshaw has outdone himself with Free Pass. A futuristic sex fantasy that is as …
From Hell
by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards for Best Graphic Novel.
A New York Times Bestseller!
"Remarkable." -- The New Yorker
" … dark, fearsomely complex …" -- Publishers Weekly
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper …
From Hell -- HARDCOVER
by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and the birth of the 20th century." — Entertainment Weekly
"Moore, one of the great fiction minds of his generation, never accomplished anything more …
From Hell / From Hell Companion Slipcase
by Eddie Campbell and Alan Moore
Two of the greatest creators in the history of comics. Eleven unsolved murders. One sprawling conspiracy, one metropolis on the brink of the twentieth century, and one bloody-minded Ripper ushering London into the modern age of terror. From Hell, often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of …
The From Hell Companion
by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
Co-Published by Top Shelf and Knockabout.
"A man-behind-the-curtain look at a seminal graphic novel... an indispensable reference." -- Kirkus Reviews
"The From Hell Companion doesn’t ruin the magic trick that Moore and Campbell pulled off; if anything, it makes their achievement seem all …
From Hell: Master Edition #01 (of 10)
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and the birth of the 20th century." — Entertainment Weekly
Experience FROM HELL as never before: fully restored and in color for the first …
From Hell: Master Edition #02 (of 10)
“What Doth the Lord Require of Thee?” Blackmail and black magic — and one unforgettable tour of London — come to life in full color!
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and the …
From Hell: Master Edition #03 (of 10)
“The Nemesis of Neglect.” The first modern serial killer strikes his first victims, and reluctant Inspector Abberline is assigned the case of a lifetime.
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they …
From Hell: Master Edition #04 (of 10)
“A Torn Envelope.” Another woman is brutally murdered near Whitechapel, and the police receive a mysterious letter bearing the name… “Jack the Ripper.”
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they …
From Hell: Master Edition #05 (of 10)
“Love is enough.” As his pace of murder accelerates — twice in one night — the increasingly unhinged Dr. Gull leaves an ominous message.
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and …
From Hell: Master Edition #06 (of 10)
“From Hell.” The narrative makes room for such figures as Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats, while the killer writes the note which gives our work its title.
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world …
From Hell: Master Edition #07 (of 10)
“The Best of All Tailors.” The Ripper’s bloody work reaches its horrific climax. And afterwards… there is only descent.
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and the birth of the …
From Hell: Master Edition #08 (of 10)
“The Unfortunate Mr Druitt.” London is desperate to solve its most notorious crime — and one schoolteacher will pay the price.
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and the birth of …
From Hell: Master Edition #09 (of 10)
“The Apprehensions of Mr Lees.” A sham psychic and a weary police inspector steel themselves for a long pursuit… only to find their world turned upside down by the killer’s confession.
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, …
From Hell: Master Edition #10 (of 10)
“Gull, Ascending.” A monumental work is perhaps best viewed from a distance.
"My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and the birth of the 20th century." — Entertainment …
From Hell: Master Edition -- HARDCOVER
Meet the most notorious serial killer of all time, Jack the Ripper -- and meet the vast and vibrant communities of Victorian London where his foul deeds gave birth to the modern era. In this remarkable new edition, the award-winning bestseller FROM HELL now features astonishing colors by Eddie …
The Fun Family
AN ANGOULÊME 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION!
"Frisch takes our joyful expectations of sunny, jolly comic imagery and relentlessly tortures us with them in a harrowing tale of surreal family dysfunction." — Booklist (starred review)
"Readers will be thinking about [The Fun Family] for days …
Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz
by Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi
“The human being — self-doubting, proud, committed and sometimes dark — who forged one of the most significant artistic creations of the 20th century comes through in these pages. By using the visual language of the Peanuts comic strip, Debus and Matteuzzi tap into our collective …
Gingerbread Girl
by Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin
Read the complete story online at Top Shelf 2.0!
"Complex and engaging... I found this graphic novel to be enthralling." -- Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing
"An engaging, breezy read... Gingerbread Girl captures the romance of being young and kooky in a hip city, while acknowledging that …
Girl Town
by Casey Nowak
Nominated for the 2019 Eisner Award!
“Nowak tosses off more wildly imaginative ideas per page than some creators have over their entire careers.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“These stories… illuminate something profoundly familiar and deeply resonant about women’s …
Glork Patrol (Book One): Glork Patrol on the Bad Planet
"Calibrated for pure young-reader joy by a long-standing master of comics eccentricity." — Booklist
"With oversized panels, whimsically styled characters, and an eye-catching palette, the book should dissolve readers into giggles as they watch the wacky warrior make one comically bad decision …
Glork Patrol (Book Two): Glork Patrol Takes a Bath
"Hilarious... There’s a lot of slapstick humor and a lot of totally absurd situations, so if your kid likes extreme silliness, this is a fun series to share." — GeekDad
"A perfect graphic novel for adults to read to children... Full of smart cartooning, kids will love it for the colourful …
Glork Patrol (Book Three): Glork Patrol and the Magic Robot
"Glork Patrol and the Magic Robot is the kind of comic I would have loved as a new reader. The artwork is colorful and expressive and the story is silly yet exciting. Small wonder that Kochalka has won an Eisner Award for his children’s books! Highly recommended for any parent with children who …
God Is Disappointed / Apocrypha Now — SLIPCASE SET
by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler
"Mr. Russell and Mr. Wheeler have used irreverence to win an audience for what is actually a slyly empathetic retelling of Bible stories." — The New York Times
“Accurate yet rib-tickling, these scriptural riffs are perfect for fans of Monty Python’s Life of Brian.” — Publishers …
God Is Disappointed in You
by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler
"Mr. Russell and Mr. Wheeler have used irreverence to win an audience for what is actually a slyly empathetic retelling of Bible stories." — The New York Times
"As soon as I started reading it, I was hooked... The Bible is an incredibly weird book, and I thank Mark Russell for rewriting it in …
The Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters
by Pat Grant
Finalist for the Aurealis Award!
Winner of the Bronze Ledger Award / Comic Arts Awards of Australia!
“The Grot has the makings of a true Australian classic. As absurdly funny as it is disturbingly realistic." -- Shaun Tan, Author of The Arrival
"A twisting plot and a seething, filthy world …
Gumballs (TPB)
by Erin Nations
Nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens!
Winner of the 2018 DINKy Award for Diversity!
An ALA "Over the Rainbow" Book
"This collection is really fun and accessible, a great overview of one man’s trans experience." — American Library Association "Over the Rainbow" …
Heck
Honor Book — 2014 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year!
"Cannon really runs with this set-up, telling a morality tale within the trappings of a harrowing adventure that tests all three principals... Sturdily drawn, a helluva good comics caper." -- Ray Olson, Booklist
"Excellent... …
Hello, Again
by Max Estes
"If there's a Brian Ralph recommendation on the back of a book, that's good enough for me. In this paperback, Max Estes tells about a guy who carries around a ton of guilt until a ghost from his past shows up to teach him a lesson about moving forward. The faces and gestures are expressive, the old …
Her Bark and Her Bite
by James Albon
"Like a New Yorker cover spun out to a full-length story... Albon uses loose and energetic colored pencil, in a palette heavy in yellows and blues, to capture the social and emotional whirl of this airy tale." — Publishers Weekly
"James Albon's delicate and utterly unique artwork is so …
Hey Princess
by Mats Jonsson
THE SWEDISH INVASION!
"Funny, relatable, honest. What's not to love?" --Whitney Matheson, USA Today
“The brilliance of Mats Jonsson’s comics is knowing just how funny some of the most pathetic moments of adolescence can be, and not being afraid to share those, no matter how ridiculous it …
Hey, Mister #1: Birth of the Cruel
"I laughed so hard at HEY MISTER! that about two drops of pee came out." -- Matt Fraction, author of Invincible Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Casanova.
Behold the triumphant return of what Details Magazine called "America’s funniest comic book"! This Eisner-nominated series series is not only …
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Hey, Mister (Vol 1): After School Special
"America's funniest comic book." -- Gavin Edwards, Details
This amazing edition collects the original five, self-published Hey, Mister mini-comics. With all the disturbing pathos and blow-milk-through-your-nose comedy we've come to expect, this cool compendium is guaranteed to give you the …
Hey, Mister (Vol 2): Celebrity Roast
"Sickman-Garner’s best work shows a complexity of vision and cartooning talent that make him eminently watchable; qualities which belie the seeming hopelessness of his work. Like Shannon Wheeler, he manages to wrench some telling humor from a seemingly inauspicious vehicle." -- The Comics …
Hey, Mister (Vol 3): The Fall Collection
"Funny, wacky, compelling, and best of all, surreal. Leave it to Top Shelf to find an artist like Pete and to put his stuff together in such a nice, neat package." -- Factsheet 5
"Hey, Mister comics are laugh-out-loud, tears-rolling-down-your-face funny." -- Karon Flage, Sequential …
Hey, Mister: Come Hell or Highwater Pants
“Hey, Mister is bleakly, existentially funny in the most dissipated deadpan manner possible.” -- AV Club, "The Best Comics of 2014"
Meet Satan. After eons of ruling the underworld, he’s sad as Hell and can’t take it anymore. So why not skip town and check out “the air up there”? He …
Hieronymus B.
by Ulf K.
"If you should be lucky enough to see this book in your comic shop on Wednesday, snap it up immediately, take directly it to the cashier, buy it and do not pass Go. ... Whimsical without being cloying, and featuring some truly stunning line work, Ulf K deserves a wider audience in the States." …
Highwayman
by Koren Shadmi
“A bewitching and fascinating roadtrip… with impeccable writing and narration.” — Planete BD
“Shadmi intrigues with his mysteries and his evocative skill, asking more questions than he answers.” — BoDoï
"Shadmi skillfully mixes together [a] sweeping kind of mystical scientism …
Home Time: Under the River
Winner of the Excellence in Graphic Literature Award, PubWest Design Award, and DINKy Award!
Finalist for the Eisner Award, Russ Manning Award, Mike Wieringo Award, National Cartoonist Society Graphic Novel Award, Readings Children's Book Prize, Aurealis Award, and Ledger Award.
“Beautifully …
Home Time II: Beyond The Weaving
Winner of the Silver Ledger Award / Comic Arts Awards of Australia!
Praise for Home Time:
“Beautifully realised, funny, smart, weird and surprisingly epic in scope, Home Time is also just plain brilliant.” — Shaun Tan
“Campbell Whyte’s debut graphic novel is cute, funny, scary, …
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 …
Hutch Owen (Vol 1): The Collected
by Tom Hart
"Tom Hart is one of the few cartoonists whose work I actively seek. There is a dept of feeling in his Hutch Owen stories that places them among the best comic book work I’ve read." -- Joe Sacco
"[Hart’s] funny-looking people . . . convey a level of character and emotion that more intricate …
Hutch Owen (Vol 2): Unmarketable
by Tom Hart
"A devastating satire, Unmarketable feels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture." -- Andrew D. Arnold, Time.com
"Hart's angry nonconformist Hutch Owen is a modern comics icon-a pissed-off homeless man who stands up for idealism and …
Hutch Owen (Vol 3): Let's Get Furious!
by Tom Hart
He’s outraged! He’s not going to take it anymore! He’s... not quite sure what to do next. Meet Hutch and his motley crew of lovable malcontents, struggling to make sense of an America that baffles, oppresses, and infuriates them. Collecting the five-year run of Tom Hart’s bitingly …
I Am a Number
by Rian Hughes
"Riddled with wit and bursting with as much mischief and behavioural insight as any Kyle Baker book, this collection of short strips and cartoons is exactly the sort of the masterclass in style and colour that you’d expect from the king of comics-orientated logo design." — Page 45
“Rian …
I Am Going to Be Small
"Jeffrey Brown is one of the best humorists in modern American comic book." -- Comic Book Bin
Everyone needs something funny to stick in their pocket to read on the train, or on a lunch break, or in line at the DMV. This is that something. Jeffrey Brown sets aside the sappy sentimentality of his …
I Am Going To Be Small (Hardcover)
I Am Going To Be Small is also available in a deluxe hardcover edition. Limited quantities available.
In Perpetuity
by Maria Hoey and Peter Hoey
It’s a surreal smuggling operation across the boundaries of life and death in the latest moody mystery from award-winning graphic novelists Peter & Maria Hoey.
In perpetuity, the Afterlife is just as the ancient Greeks imagined: an endless twilight where time stands still and shades have …
In Utero
by Chris Gooch
“Coming-of-age meets cosmic horror; unforgettably striking, both visually and emotionally.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“In Utero is everything I love about comics. Gripping, heartfelt storytelling and wonderful characters set in a haunting sci-fi world. Chris Gooch might be …
Incredible Change-Bots One
“This pocket-sized volume is to The Transformers what Avenue Q is to Sesame Street -- a mocking, fawning, idiotic, adoring paean to a pop culture phenomenon inseparable from the artist’s person. Although allegory without substance, all action and no moral, it’s delightful fluff.” -- Library …
Incredible Change-Bots One -- HARDCOVER
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Incredible Change-Bots Two
"Hilarious. Brown's drawings have a charming crudeness to them, and the book gives the impression of a couple of kids playing with their toy robots, making 'bew! bew! bew!' noises and spouting absurd dialogue. It's also really clever, though. Incredible Change-Bots is a parody by someone who …
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Incredible Change-Bots Two Point Something Something
From bestselling author Jeffrey Brown (Darth Vader and Son, Jedi Academy) comes the latest installment of his humorous shape-changing robot adventure, Incredible Change-Bots. Collecting previously published and rarely seen material, Change-Bots Two Point Something Something includes short stories, …
Incredible Change-Bots Two Point Something Something -- HARDCOVER
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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 …
The Jekyll Island Chronicles (Book One): A Machine Age War
Written by Steve Nedvidek, Ed Crowell, & Jack Lowe. Illustrated by Moses Nester, with colors by S. J. Miller.
Named one of the "10 Books All Young Georgians Should Read" by the Georgia Center for the Book!
“An alternative-history steampunk treasure… Consider this historian impressed.” — Matt Kim, Inverse
“The Jekyll Island Chronicles... shines a bright light on alternate history in the …
The Jekyll Island Chronicles (Book Two): A Devil's Reach
Written by Steve Nedvidek, Ed Crowell, & Jack Lowe. Illustrated by Moses Nester, with colors by S. J. Miller.
Praise for The Jekyll Island Chronicles:
“An alternative-history steampunk treasure… Consider this historian impressed.” — Matt Kim, Inverse
“The Jekyll Island Chronicles... shines a bright light on alternate history in the comic medium with its deep characterizations of historical …
The Jekyll Island Chronicles (Book Three): A Last Call
Written by Steve Nedvidek, Ed Crowell, & Jack Lowe. Illustrated by Prentis Rollins, with colors by S. J. Miller.
Praise for The Jekyll Island Chronicles:
“An alternative-history steampunk treasure… Consider this historian impressed.” — Matt Kim, Inverse
“The Jekyll Island Chronicles... shines a bright light on alternate history in the comic medium with its deep characterizations of historical …
Jimmy’s Elbow
Jimmy is a very good boy. He even wears a tie! But when he bumps his elbow on a table, this very good boy starts feeling very bad. Did his elbow die? Was that just a dream? Or has Jimmy’s magic elbow come to life and unlocked his super powers? Well, no matter what, it’s time for Jimmy and his …
