Graphic Novels
Lowlife
Witty and poignant, Ed Brubaker's collection of semi-autobiographical tales focuses on love, despair, lost friendships, and the murky morality of stealing from work. Known for being one of the funniest series ever published in comics form, LOWLIFE dissects the Slacker / Generation X lifestyle from …
Lupus
Winner of the “Essential” Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
"Peeters examines the complexity of human relationships—among friends, lovers, parents and their children—in this moving and unpredictable sf epic... Peeters is a compositional genius, utilizing stunning …
Magic Boy and Girlfriend
The comics that made the man a legend. That's right, collected for the first time ever are the greatest hits from the seminal mini-comic James Kochalka Superstar; all of which are now rare and out-of-print. James' comics have appeared virtually everywhere in the alternative comix scene, and this …
Magic Boy and the Robot Elf
Magic Boy is an old, decrepit man. Lonely and confused, he decides to build a robotic replica of himself. However, the robot goes insane and attacks his creator, then goes back in time, and kills his creator's childhood self. The robot then lives out the entirety of his creator's life in his …
March: Book One
by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Discover the phenomenal graphic novel memoir by US Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis!
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award — Special Recognition
A #1 New York Times Bestseller
A #1 Washington Post Bestseller
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
An ALA Notable Book
One of YALSA's …
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
Jonny Quest meets Infinite Jest! This mind-bending book—half graphic novel, half postmodern mystery, and 25% footnotes—is a thrilling tribute to the ways we build meaning out of disposable pop culture.
WHO IS MARY TYLER MOOREHAWK? How did she save the world from a dimension-hopping …
The Masterplan
"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
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
"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
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
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. Not …
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)
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)
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 …
The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic
by Alan Moore & Steve Moore with various artists
★ "The authors make a compelling case for the importance of mysticism and magical thinking for the development of human consciousness and civilization in this marvelously entertaining, stunningly illustrated and designed masterwork." - Library Journal (Starred Review)
"As a guidebook to …
More Weight: A Salem Story
“Every word is an accusation… and every whisper kills.” This staggering graphic novel explores the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they cast more than 300 years later.
1692 is a year of terror. In Salem, Massachusetts, Giles and Martha Corey are forced to confront their …
Mosquito
"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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Nate Powell's OMNIBOX
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)
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
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
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
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 2): The River Rises
Return to the wilderness with nervous bear Frank and excitable raccoon Ricky as they dive deeper into the long-lost (and supernatural) secrets of Camp Jay Bird!
Frank is in big trouble. Sure, meeting Ricky made Camp Jay Bird less lonely… but they broke camp rules and made enemies of all the …
Order of the Night Jay (Book 1): 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 …
Pig Wife
“Pig Wife is beautifully disturbing. It’s charming, terrifying, weird, and visually stunning. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a horror story.” -- Will Carsola, co-creator of Adult Swim’s Mr. Pickles
Accidentally trapped in an underground bunker, a teen girl must navigate the …
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
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
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
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
“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!
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?!?
"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
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 …
Psychic Investigators, Evil Exterminators
If there’s something strange in your middle school… call these kids! High energy and huge emotions combine in this thrilling and fast-paced graphic novel about searching for ghosts and making connections!
Gabriel Navarro can see ghosts. At least, that’s what he’s always believed, until …
