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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 …
The 120 Days of Simon
THE SWEDISH INVASION!
"The 120 Days of Simon is an alternately charming, funny and aggravating four month journal of a self-advertised, couch-surfing freeloader. Highly recommended!" -- Peter Bagge
"I wouldn't call him a hero, but I found Gärdenfors' couch-surfing, mooching, drugged, …
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 …
Alec: The Years Have Pants
Winner of the 2010 Ignatz Award!
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"This impressive collection—a high-water mark in the graphic novel’s short history—confirms that no one else in the medium combines emotional truth, literary intelligence, and formal daring with such adroitness and elegance." -- Booklist …
Alone Forever
"The gags make readers laugh in the moment, but there are insights that stick around long after the book goes back on the shelf." — The AV Club
"Liz Prince is a dab hand at hiding the iron fist of irony and sarcasm in the velvet glove of a gorgeous cartooning style." — Broken …
American Elf 1999
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
American Elf 2000
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life—but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
American Elf 2001
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
American Elf 2002
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
American Elf 2003
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
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American Elf 2004
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
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American Elf 2005
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
American Elf 2006
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
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American Elf 2007
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
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American Elf 2008
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
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American Elf 2009
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
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American Elf 2010
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
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American Elf 2011
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
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American Elf 2012
Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea -- every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life-- but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both …
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Animal Stories
"A delightfully strange collection of linked stories pondering just how little people truly know about animals." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"While the humans in these stories have little control over what happens to them, the Hoeys have absolute control of their craft, for the …
Any Empire
Named one of the best graphic novels of the year by Booklist, 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 …
Ashes
Nominated for the Harvey Award, the Excellence in Graphic Literature Award, and two Eisner Awards!
"The first great graphic novel of 2023." — IGN
"Ashes is one of those rare gems that genuinely has something for everyone." — The Comics Journal
“Álvaro Ortiz mixes The Sopranos, The …
At the Comics
A Top Shelf digital exclusive!
"Sometimes I just look at everyone and think how crazy it is that we are talking when we are all just animals." It's a majestic grab-bag of Lunney goodness, starring her beloved cast of weirdos and cute things: Keith the Wizard, Sour Rabbit & Crispy Duck, Food …
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August Moon
Named one of YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens!
"A dream of a book. August Moon hums with menace and wonder, like the coolest childhood you never had. Diana Thung's work is beautiful in all the right ways, for all the right reasons." -- Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The …
Ballad for Sophie
by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia
One of the American Library Association's Top 10 Best Graphic Novels for Adults!
Nominated for four Eisner Awards!
Nominated for two Harvey Awards!
Nominated for five Ringo Awards!
Nominated for the American Cartoonists Society Reuben Award (Graphic Novel Division)!
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BB Wolf and the 3 LP's
Nominated for FOUR Glyph Comics Awards!
Named one of USA TODAY's top graphic novels to watch at San Diego Comic-Con!
"BB Wolf strikes a relentless tempo that grabs you by the ears and refuses to let go. I never put this one down for an instant. Great stuff." -- Greg Ruth, artist of Freaks of …
Be A Man
"Be A Man skews and distorts the portrait of Jeffrey Brown to fulfill the modern, unhealthy, masculine paradigm." -- Read Yourself Raw
Jeffrey Brown's own self-parody of his "ultra-sensitive" graphic novel, Clumsy. A heaping of in-your-face male chauvinism, over-the-top machismo, and …
Belzebubs
“As twisted as it is sidesplitting… [Belzebubs] weaves slice-of-life drama and mockumentary-style humor into a pentagram of laughs, relatable moments, and a love for black metal.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This webcomic has become a cult sensation... it’s a silly, Addams …
The Bend of Luck
✭ "The Bend of Luck is both a lyrical modern-day fable and a somber crime drama that turns on a touch of magic realism and the true, intricate twists of fate and chance that connect people to one another... never dull for an instant; lyrical, somber, but immensely satisfying." — Booklist …
Better Place
by Duane Murray and Shawn Daley
★ "Big imagination and heart produce a winning adventure that belongs on display next to Hey Kiddo, I Kill Giants, and Almost American Girl." — School Library Journal (starred review)
"Heartfelt... Daley’s action-packed, mostly black-and-white panels burst with technicolor …
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 …
Black Ghost Apple Factory
Black Ghost Apple Factory is a collection of mini-comics by Jeremy Tinder. Gathered from 2004-2006, these comics range from touching and somber to downright silly. In the title comic, a little black ghost has his head in the clouds at work, fixating on a hook-up from the previous evening. …
Blue
Blue is 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 dead body, and avoid dealing with their own fears. A re-release of …
The Bojeffries Saga
“Think The Munsters written by Alan Bennett high on episodes of Coronation Street, all beautifully rendered in a style equal parts Robert Crumb and The Bash Street Kids’ Leo Baxendale." -- Mike Moran, The Independent
"Parkhouse’s tart artwork perfectly captures the mordantly humorous tone …
The Book Tour
A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart.
★ ★ ★ Nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New ★ ★ ★
★ ★ ★ Official Selection of the Angoulême …
Bop!: More Box Office Poison
"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 …
Bottled
Winner of the Silver Ledger Award for excellence in Australian comics.
"Chris Gooch twists the knife in the gap between persona and self... Bottled is a slow burn of a comic where the betrayals and the dread cut deep." — Katie Skelly, author of Nurse Nurse and My Pretty Vampire
"Gooch …
Box (Book One)
by Patrick Wirbeleit and Uwe Heidschötter
Winner of the Leipzig Reading Compass Award!
"Charmingly illustrated, engaging and funny. Whisks you away on an enchanting adventure and leaves you pining for more." — Suzanne Lang, author of the New York Times Bestseller Grumpy Monkey
"A book about a boy and a box as buds? Brilliant!" …
Box Office Poison
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 …
British Ice
"An evocative 'arctic noir,' this graphic novel unfurls a study in desolation, mounting tensions, and chilling atmosphere." — Publishers Weekly
"Beautifully well-done introspection, perfect for a tale from the white, icy wastelands of the Arctic... a polished, different, multi-layered mystery …
Camp Spirit
It’s the spooky LGBTeen hard-rock rom-com that’s as wild as a hot summer night.
"Funny and believable, with wonderful expressions and amusing dialogue... There’s a lot readers will enjoy about this coming-of-age camp comedy: romance, a dose of paranormal horror, and laugh-out-loud …
Cat'n'Bat
"Cat and Bat are full of bad ideas, but buying this book is a good one." — Shannon Wheeler
"Cat'n'Bat can make you laugh, think, and then laugh again. Thoughtfully silly and cleverly dark." — Jordan Calhoun, Black Nerd Problems
Cat and Bat are best friends. Every day, they watch awful …
Chester 5000 (Book 1)
Winner of the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series!
"Liquid and elegantly stylized." — Alan Moore
"Sexy and charming. This is pornography with a heart." — Noel Murray, The A.V. Club
"Fink's storytelling is as likely to pluck on your heartstrings as get you all steamed up." — Graeme …
Cloud Hotel
"Crisp of line and hypnotically peculiar, Hanshaw deftly suspends us between dream and reality, as good comics do. As in life, the harder we look the more we see, and the stranger things invariably become." — Shaun Tan
"[Cloud Hotel's] panel layouts and richly colored mise-en-scène are …
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 …
Conversation #1
James Kochalka and Craig Thompson -- two of our best cartoonists -- go head-to-head in this free-wheeling collaboration/argument, discussing art and religion, confronting each other and playfully confronting God in one of the best comics "jams" ever set to paper. Kochalka and Thompson draw …
Conversation #2
In this issue, James Kochalka goes up against rising indy-comics star, Jeffrey Brown. The two cartoonists draw together, exchanging pages back and forth, and trade metaphorical jabs in a discussion that quickly devolves into an argument, which quickly devolves into a brawl about art and comics and …
Cosmic Cadets (Book One): Contact!
by Ben Crane & Andy Mimi Alves
"Cosmic Cadets is the perfect adventure for anyone who's dreamed of making first contact. Fun, fast-paced, and with a ton of heart." — Conor McCreery, author of The Last Witch
"Take the best of Star Trek (which I love) and mash it up with The Goonies (which I love), and you’ve got Cosmic …
Cosmoknights (Book One)
Read Cosmoknights as a free webcomic at www.cosmoknights.space, then pick up the book edition!
One of YALSA's Top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens!
Nominated for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic!
One of New York Public Library's "Best Books of 2019"!
"A gorgeous and timely space …
Crater XV
"Completely ridiculous, in the most sublime sense of the word... But it’s not all gags, as [Cannon] wrings tremendous tension, action, and intrigue out of his many-stranded plot, and the dozen-strong constellation of major characters each have deep emotional stakes on the line." -- Booklist …
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 …
Dear Beloved Stranger
"Dino Pai's sweet and surprising debut works at a number of levels: it is a fairy tale, an ode to lost love, and a young artist's search for his place in the world. What I find most refreshing and compelling about this debut is the way Dino uses shifting drawing styles and modes of storytelling to …
Death by Chocolate - Redux
"Yurkovich's twisty imagination carries readers along, aided by a strong undercurrent of yearning, as these stories become increasingly about men bound by responsibilities they never asked for..." --The AV Club
"FOR FANS OF... Film noir; dark chocolate. DOES IT DELIVER? It delivers so …
Deep Breaths
Winner of a 2020 Ledger Award!
“Interesting, offbeat and brave. The dialogue is sharp, the concepts compelling.” — Fanboy Factor
“Within these surreal stories, testing the moral fibre of their characters, there is a hidden relatability... after putting this collection down, you …
Delayed Replays
"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 …
The Delicacy
One of the American Library Association's Best Graphic Novels for Adults!
"A vivid, shrewdly observed satire of fine dining... a treat from start to finish." — The Guardian
"A tremendously entertaining moral fable that delights because it never quite goes where you think it will... all …
Depressed Cat
A Top Shelf digital exclusive!
Adorable… relatable… miserable. Meet Lizz Lunney's charmingly cheerless hero, Depressed Cat! He's not living any of his nine lives to a fulfilling level. As the seasons turn, and Lizz finds inventive new ways to explore ennui, our lad's misery never wavers, but …
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Doublecross
Doublecross has been one of the funniest and longest running minicomics in the biz, and finally, there's going to be a mass edition of one of the best parts of the Doublecross saga. Telling a complete story, this hilarious excerpt has us heading to Queens, New York to get a glimpse of Tony's family …
Doughnuts and Doom
“Sweet and sapphic in every way, Doughnuts and Doom is everything my gay, witchy, baked-good-loving heart could ever want.” — Sam Maggs, author of Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas
"This fast-paced enemies-to-lovers romance, filled with magic, music, and pastries, is an upbeat …
Dragon Puncher (Book 1)
"Kochalka channels his inner child as well as any comic book creator who has ever lived." -- Timothy Callahan, Comic Book Resources
"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 …
