Graphic Novels
March: Book One -- HARDCOVER
by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Available again for a short time: the exclusive HARDCOVER edition of March: Book One!
March: Book Two
by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Don't miss the sequel to the #1 bestseller March: Book One!
New York Times Bestseller
One of YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Winner of the Will Eisner Award
Winner of the Street Literature Book Award Medal
Winner of the Denver Independent Comic & Art Expo Award
"With March, …
March: Book Two -- HARDCOVER
by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Available in limited quantities, exclusively from Top Shelf: a hardcover edition of March: Book Two!
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March: Book Three
by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Top Shelf is honored to present a milestone of comics history: the stunning conclusion to the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy.
A #1 New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award
Winner of the …
March: Book Three -- HARDCOVER
by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Available in limited quantities, exclusively from Top Shelf: a hardcover edition of March: Book Three!
IN PRINT! (PUBLISHED AUGUST 2nd, 2016)
Mary Tyler MooreHawk
by Dave Baker
“Mary Tyler MooreHawk is a uniquely immersive psychedelic odyssey, etched in energetic and detailed linework and bursting with surreal invention and mind-boggling concepts. Strap yourself in and take a deep breath.” —Bryan Talbot, creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright
“America …
The Masterplan
by Scott Mills
"Scott Mills is a unique and driven artist, his works are purely original and speak from his soul." -- Mike Avon Oeming. Scott Mills, the critically-acclaimed cartoonist behind CELLS, BIG CLAY POT, and TRENCHES, does it again! In the grand tradition of the works of Arthur C Clarke, Stephen Baxter, …
A Matter of Life
"[A] characteristically heartfelt memoir." -- Booklist
"Jeffrey Brown's new autobiographical work, A Matter of Life, will sit next to Craig Thompson's Blankets as one of the most touching and wise graphic memoirs we have about growing up in a religious household and grappling with faith... It is …
Mechaboys
"Mechaboys feels like the return of an old friend... like the Linklater movie Dazed & Confused mixed with a garage-built robot battle suit. Pure Kochalka magic!" — Atomic Books
"Kochalka includes the standard high-school plot points—party in the woods, gym class rope-climb, an obnoxious …
Mega Collection
by Lizz Lunney
A Top Shelf digital exclusive!
Can you believe it - over 300 pages of Lizz Lunney! This massive collection includes early comics, recent comics, all your favorite characters, and even a dash of autobiography! Join Lizz as she takes cartoon comedy to the limit, featuring cute cubes, specks of …
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Micrographica
by Renée French
"Eccentrically impressive." -- Ray Olson, Booklist
"Nobody can touch Renee French for sweet fiendishness." -- Jim Woodring
"Renee French has long been one of my favorite artists and she doesn't disappoint in her latest work. Tiny creatures in tiny drawings with lots of crapballs makes this …
Mini Collection
by Lizz Lunney
A Top Shelf digital exclusive!
Just one look at Lizz Lunney's ultra-simplified cartoon creatures and you'll fall in love. Luckily there's so many to choose from! This incredible 98-page collection features TWELVE full mini-comics (originally six flip-books), including such wonders as "Leopards …
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Minisulk
"'Not everything in here is true,' it says in the indicia, but enough of it feels true that Brown's well-earned reputation as one of today's better autobiographical cartoonists is secure." -- Alan David Doane, Comic Book Galaxy
Jeffrey Brown takes a break from books about girls for this humorous …
The Mirror of Love
by Alan Moore and José Villarrubia
THE ADVOCATE PICKS "THE MIRROR OF LOVE" AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR -- "José Villarrubia’s amazing photos illustrate an equally amazing epic gay love poem." -- The Advocate
"The only way to go to war with hate is to love. The Mirror of Love is the great weapon in our arsenal. …
The Mirror of Love (SIGNED & NUMBERED)
by Alan Moore and José Villarrubia
Don't miss the last few copies of the Signed & Numbered edition of The Mirror of Love, signed by both Alan Moore and Jose Villarrubia and limited to 500 copies. A Top Shelf exclusive!
THE ADVOCATE PICKS "THE MIRROR OF LOVE" AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR -- "José Villarrubia’s …
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Monkey vs Robot: The Complete Epic
A magnum opus from one of the giants of indie cartooning finally gets its due -- in full color, and expanded with a new 120-page grand finale!
"An expressive, funny-sad book that rewards us with its deft execution." — Artbomb
"The Monkey Vs. Robot books are like the best of children’s …
Monkey Vs. Robot (Vol 1)
"An expressive, funny-sad book that rewards us with its deft execution." -- Peter Aaron Rose, Artbomb
A factory of self-replicating robots is stripping the jungle of its natural resources, threatening the territory of a colony of nearby monkeys. A series of encounters between the two groups …
Monkey Vs. Robot (Vol 2): Crystal of Power
"The Monkey Vs. Robot books are like the best of children’s literature, in that they appeal to the joyfulness of literature and art that appeals so much to children, while adults can enjoy the structure and techniques." -- Ninth Art
Deep in the forest, robots are gathering plant and animal …
Monster on the Hill (Book 1)
by Rob Harrell
An ALA Notable Children's Book!
One of YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens!
One of YALSA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers!
Featured on ALSC's Graphic Novel Core Reading List (Grades 3-5)!
"Really fun, goofy, extremely silly fantasy for readers of all ages, crying out for reviewers and …
Monster on the Hill (Expanded Edition)
by Rob Harrell
An ALA Notable Children's Book!
One of YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens!
One of YALSA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers!
Featured on ALSC's Graphic Novel Core Reading List (Grades 3-5)!
Can a depressed monster learn how to be a hero? Maybe with a little help. The hilarious and …
Mosquito
by Dan James
"Reading Dan James’s Mosquito, it was somewhere around the halfway point that I realized my body was subconsciously tightening up more and more as I turned the pages. With horror, that’s a good thing." -- Greg McElhatton, icomics.com
Following in the inspiration of H. P. Lovecraft, Mary …
The Motorcycle Samurai (Volume One)
One of the Village Voice's Best Comics of 2015!
“Motorcycle Samurai is exactly what I want from digital comics. Hell, it’s what I want from comics in general. It’s a great story that uses the medium in unique ways. More, please!” —Mark Waid
"Unrelenting stylishness... Chris Sheridan …
The Motorcycle Samurai -- FCBD 2015
Look hard into the storm clouds. You may yet see her, mounted on her electric steed, streaking past. The last hero of the West. THE MOTORCYCLE SAMURAI!
It's been called “the new benchmark for indie digital comics." Now discover the mad genius of THE MOTORCYCLE SAMURAI for yourself, as Chris …
The Motorcycle Samurai #0
Get in on the ground floor of something spectacular: Issue Zero of Chris Sheridan's MOTORCYCLE SAMURAI!
This Comic-Con special release sets the stage for our saga: a grueling desert wasteland, a mysterious stranger bound and hooded on the back of a motorcycle, and a tough-as-nails warrior out to …
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The Motorcycle Samurai #1: Overture
The madness and mayhem of MOTORCYCLE SAMURAI returns! Two prisoners have gotten fed up with the chain-gang life, and this hot-air balloon may be their ticket out... but somehow I don't think the Boss is gonna make it easy for 'em.
Chris Sheridan is back with more explosive action and dynamite …
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The Motorcycle Samurai #2: Sewamono
Smoke rises in the desert as the White Bolt, prisoner in tow, comes to the town of Trouble. The town is celebrating a Jubilee the way any town in the middle of nowhere would, with fisticuffs and fireworks in a way only Chris Sheridan and The Motorcycle Samurai can bring!
The Motorcycle Samurai: …
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The Motorcycle Samurai #3: Peripeteia
In which everything is turned upside-down.
Chris Sheridan returns with the longest and most ambitious installment of MOTORCYCLE SAMURAI yet! Plots are being hatched. Alliances form and shift. The clock approaches midnight. Something big is coming, and it ain’t gonna be pretty.
Fortunately, …
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The Motorcycle Samurai #4: Anagnorisis
In which a critical discovery is made.
"Happy" speaks! And boy, does he finally have a lot to say. Sparks fly, motives are laid bare, and strange alliances are formed as our full assortment of silver-tongued scoundrels cross paths on a moonlit night heavy with portent. Don't miss the …
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The Motorcycle Samurai #5: A Fiery Demise
“It’s about bloody time. Let the flood begin.”
The titanically tense buildup finally explodes! Can the White Bolt and the Parker boys stop Boss Frankie Parker before she sets the world on fire? Find out now, as Chris Sheridan brings his potboiling plot to a dynamite finale.
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The Motorcycle Samurai: A Very White Bolt Christmas
On one dark and blustery night, the townspeople of Nowhere, nestled all snug in their beds, dream of soft fluffy things wrapped in bows. In this strange land, The Stranger, dressed all in red, comes calling with eight tiny minions in tow, The Stranger swoops to the rooftops, and readies to descend …
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The Motorcycle Samurai: Variable
Who is this masked woman? Who is The White Bolt? Who is THE MOTORCYCLE SAMURAI?
Praised as "whimsical and dramatic" by ComicsAlliance, Chris Sheridan brings us a San Diego Comic-Con Special Release of MOTORCYCLE SAMURAI: VARIABLE. In a post-future desert setting, we get the true tale* and origin …
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Moving Pictures
Nominated for the 2011 Stumptown Award and Doug Wright Award!
"A wonderful, poignant surprise." -- Paul Gravett, author of Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life
"Most of the story seems less drawn than peeled and chiseled away from absolute visual and moral darkness... [Moving Pictures] …
Nate Powell's OMNIBOX
by Nate Powell
Celebrate the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award!
"It’s tempting to call this a Powell sampler, but each of the collected works is a standalone mini-masterpiece in its own right." — Barnes & Noble's "Best Comics & Graphic Novels of June 2017"
Nate Powell has been called …
Nemo Trilogy (Slipcase Edition)
by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
With a classic two-fisted spirit of adventure, Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill explore stunning new horizons of their League of Extraordinary Gentlemen universe with the bestselling Nemo trilogy! These spinoff graphic novels follow the terrifying pirate queen Janni Nemo in her confrontations with …
Nemo: Heart of Ice
by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
AN ALL-NEW LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN ADVENTURE!
Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions & Knockabout.
In the grim cold of February surfaces a thrilling new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen book: NEMO: HEART OF ICE, a full-color 56-page adventure in the classic pulp tradition by the …
Nemo: River of Ghosts
by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
The rip-roaring Nemo trilogy (Heart of Ice, Roses of Berlin) reaches a stunning conclusion!
In a world where all the fictions ever written coalesce into a rich mosaic, it’s 1975. Janni Dakkar, pirate queen of Lincoln Island and head of the fabled Nemo family, is eighty years old and beginning …
Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen…
Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life.
Now it is 1941, and with …
Okie Dokie Donuts (Story 1): Open for Business!
A TOP SHELF KIDS CLUB BOOK!
"Elio consistently impresses me with his supercharged kid-friendly comics. His style is wholly distinct, and everything he does seems to explode with joy and pure fun." -- John Martz, Drawn!
"2 scoops of silly, 5 cups of cute, and a bucket load of fun! Chris …
Onion Skin
"A visual feast of art so energetic that it constantly breaks through and beyond the panel borders, in a brilliant, saturated palette and stylized, angular figures... quite the toothsome thrill ride." — Booklist
“Onion Skin earned the first National Young Graphic Novel Award for its ample …
Order of the Night Jay (Book One): The Forest Beckons
“A fun camp adventure for those who adore talking & clothes-wearing animals!” —School Library Journal
“A detective-duo heist, a moving and cautionary tale of friendship & openness prevailing against prejudice, or a chilling campfire yarn... [Order of the Night Jay] somehow manages to be …
Our Expanding Universe
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Under the Radar, The Oklahoman, The Comics Alternative, and Publishers Weekly!
"In Our Expanding Universe, Robinson considers the big choice — to have kids or not... It's a delight to watch him pile speech bubbles atop each other, assemble mundane …
Parenthesis
Winner of the Revelation Prize, Liberation Readers’ Prize, and Poland Prize from the Angoulême International Comics Festival!
Winner of the 2022 Graphic Medicine Award from the Graphic Medicine International Collective!
One of the American Library Association's Best Graphic Novels for …
Penny Nichols
by MK Reed, Greg Means, and Matt Wiegle
Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Graphic Literature!
Nominated for TWO Will Eisner Awards!
"This tongue-in-cheek tale about a very amateur effort to make a slasher flick is a hilarious ode to creativity, the can-do spirit and friendship." — Oregon Book Award citation
“Tremendous fun, …
The Perfect Planet
The Village Voice calls him "Primitive, childlike and profane," and Pulse Magazine calls him a "Peculiar comic genius." Whatever you call James Kochalka, it's obvious that he's a superstar on the rise. Even while he's developing animated cartoons for Nickelodeon, and recording CDs with his band, he …
Pinky & Stinky
Nominated for the Eisner Award!
Now in a new edition, with a new cover!
"Kochalka's work makes me feel like I did when I was six years old. He brings the joy back to comics." -- Frank Miller, creator of Sin City, 300, and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
"Oh, lord, did Pinky & Stinky make me …
Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer
by Dusty Higgins and Van Jensen
One of YALSA’s Top Ten Graphic Novels for Teens!
"It's the greatest thing I've read all year. And you'll notice my nose didn't grow one bit when I said that." — Mark Waid
"Page after page of amazement." — Publishers Weekly
“The premise for this graphic novel is really almost too good to …
Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer (Vol. 2): The Great Puppet Theater
by Dusty Higgins and Van Jensen
Slaying the vampires who killed his father was only the beginning... the undead hordes are back, and more dangerous than ever. Fortunately, Pinocchio's not alone: in this thrilling sequel you'll meet his brothers and sisters from the famous Great Puppet Theater! Jensen and Higgins present a …
Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer (Vol. 3): Of Wood and Blood
by Dusty Higgins and Van Jensen
At last, Pinocchio has been turned into a real boy — but, er, that might be a problem for his vampire-slaying career. Even worse, he and his friends are stuck on an island in the middle of the sea! They'll have to fight their way off the island before they're able to resume the hunt to save …
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Pirate Penguin vs Ninja Chicken (Book 1): Troublems with Frenemies
by Ray Friesen
“Ray Friesen is a remarkable cartoonist. He makes the silly funny and the funny sublime. The world seems lighter after reading a Ray Friesen book.” — Jimmy Gownley, author of Amelia Rules!
“Ray Friesen is a veritable fount of silliness... Pirate Penguin vs. Ninja Chicken is filled with …
Pirate Penguin vs Ninja Chicken (Book 2): Escape from Skull-Fragment Island!
by Ray Friesen
Set phasers for maximum silly: Ray Friesen, the non-stop sugar rush called by Booklist “a manic blend of mayhem and adventure,” is back for more! When Pirate Penguin and Ninja Chicken stumble across a mystical lost sword, a rip-roaring aquatic adventure ensues, with appearances by cousin …
Pirate Penguin vs Ninja Chicken (Book 3): Macaroni and Bees?!?
by Ray Friesen
"The funniest friendship in young readers' comics." — ScreenRant
“Ray Friesen is a remarkable cartoonist. He makes the silly funny and the funny sublime. The world seems lighter after reading a Ray Friesen book.” — Jimmy Gownley, author of Amelia Rules!
“Ray Friesen is a veritable …
The Playwright
by Eddie Campbell and Daren White
REVIEWS:
"This quiet character study... succeeds on several levels, but its most potent component is the clearly recognizable and utterly naked humanity." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Campbell’s watercolouring effects take his art into vivid new horizons ... [his] images skilfully …
A Radical Shift of Gravity
by Nick Tapalansky and Kate Glasheen
"This beautiful book is very smart about global catastrophes and very honest about personal ones. For everyone asking ‘How can we raise a family in a world like this?’, A Radical Shift of Gravity offers a powerful answer.” — Jeff Lemire
"Ingeniously structured... a remarkably moving …
Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator
by Sofia Warren
“What kind of politico embeds a cartoonist in her office for a year? Well, a remarkably savvy one, it turns out, and the payoff is Sofia Warren’s beautifully-rendered account of a rookie’s initiation into state politics: an exhilarating baptism of fire, and a sorely-needed love letter to the …
Rascal
"A winner... This story will delight anyone who has ever loved or lived with a cat." — School Library Journal
Rascal is a cat. My cat. I didn’t ask for him, he just sort of... happened to me. But that’s how it works sometimes, isn’t it?
When a mysterious mewling package arrives in …
Red Panda & Moon Bear (Book One)
One of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2019!
One of Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2019!
Selected for Seattle Public Schools’ 2022 Global Reading Challenge!
Winner of the Nerdy Book Club’s Nerdy Award for Graphic Novels!
Unanimous selection of the Texas Library …
Red Panda & Moon Bear (Book Two): The Curse of the Evil Eye
Super siblings save the world! In their second amazing graphic novel, these Cuban American kids are getting even better at using their powers to protect the community... but has their luck just run out? How do you stop a curse?!
When an evil curse descends upon the city of Martí, it’s up to …
Red Panda & Moon Bear: Spanish Edition (Panda Roja y Oso Lunar)
Jarod Roselló's acclaimed middle-grade adventure is now available in Spanish!
Dos niños latinx batallan contra amenazas sobrenaturales en su barrio con el poder de la ciencia, la magia y un par de sudaderas muy especiales.
¡Panda Roja y Oso Lunar son los defensores de su comunidad! Juntos, …
Regards From Serbia
"The Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf has created some of the most compelling comics of the last 15 years. His war stories about the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia, heartbreaking dissections of the cartoonist's inner and outer life as his world fell to pieces all around him, are as fine a group …
Renée
Named one of the year's 20 Essential Graphic Novels by ACBD (the French Association of Comics Critics)!
"Dreams merge into reality with unnerving ease in Debeurme’s captivating sequel to Lucille... a powerfully tragic meditation on the alienating force of memory." — Publishers Weekly
"Do …
