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Welcome to the Top Shelf digital comics library! We offer dozens of books in a variety of different digital formats -- with new titles added constantly, and at incredible prices. Feel free to use the buttons above right to filter by your preferred format (Comixology, Google Books, Graphicly, Apple Books, Comics+ by iVerse, Amazon Kindle, Kobo Vox, or Nook) and see what's available, then click the "Buy Digital" button to see the book in that store.

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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 …

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ISBN 978-1-891830-75-4

The 120 Days of Simon

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, …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-050-6

 
AEIOU or Any Easy Intimacy

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-891830-71-6

Alec: The Years Have Pants

Alec: The Years Have Pants

Winner of the 2010 Ignatz Award!

REVIEWS:

"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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-025-4

 
Alone Forever

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-322-4 - Diamond: DEC13-1293

American Elf 1999

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-2395 - 455 pages

 
American Elf 2000

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 …

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300 pages

American Elf 2001

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 …

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380 pages

 
American Elf 2002

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 …

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American Elf 2003

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

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

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 …

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370 pages

 
American Elf 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-502-0 - Diamond: AUG210540

 
Any Empire

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-077-3

Ashes

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-517-4 - Diamond: OCT228162

 
At the Comics

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

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-069-8 - Diamond: AUG12-1309

 
Ballad for Sophie

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)!

Watch Juan Cavia's cover …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-498-6 - Diamond: MAY210433

BB Wolf and the 3 LP's

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-029-2

 
Be A Man

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 …

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Belzebubs

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-442-9 - Diamond: OCT180731

 
The Bend of Luck

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 …

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Better Place

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-495-5 - Diamond: APR210626

 
Bighead

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-891830-56-3 - Diamond: AUG043100

Black Ghost Apple Factory

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. …

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Blue

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-273-9 - Diamond: JAN12-1268

The Bojeffries Saga

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-063-6 - Diamond: DEC13-1294

 
The Book Tour

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-479-5 - Diamond: JUL200575

Bop!: More Box Office Poison

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-891830-46-4 - Diamond: STAR20107

 
Bottled

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-420-7 - Diamond: JUN170551

Box (Book One)

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!" …

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Box Office Poison

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-891830-19-8 - Diamond: STAR13562

British Ice

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-460-3 - Diamond: SEP190739

 
Camp Spirit

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-465-8 - Diamond: DEC190722

Cat'n'Bat

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-422-1 - Diamond: DEC170548

 
Chester 5000 (Book 1)

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 …

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Cloud Hotel

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-425-2 - Diamond: FEB180480

 
Clumsy

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 …

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Conversation #1

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 …

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Conversation #2

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 …

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Cosmic Cadets (Book One): Contact!

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-520-4 - Diamond: DEC221456

 
Cosmoknights (Book One)

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-454-2 - Diamond: MAY190659

Crater XV

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-100-8 - Diamond: FEB131140

 
Cry Yourself to Sleep

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-891830-81-5 - Diamond: MAR063449

Dear Beloved Stranger

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-271-5 - Diamond: NOV121316

 
Death by Chocolate - Redux

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

"There are readers out there who are searching from something different in their …

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Deep Breaths

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-455-9 - Diamond: MAY190660

 
Delayed Replays

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 …

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The Delicacy

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-492-4 - Diamond: FEB210446

 
Depressed Cat

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

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 …

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Doughnuts and Doom

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-513-6

Dragon Puncher (Book 1)

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 …

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ISBN 978-1-60309-057-5