Top Shelf Productions: 85 books

"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 romance...

Top Shelf is proud to present an all-new, "silent" all-ages graphic novel series … Yam and his fun-loving friends live on the remote tropical island of Leche de la Luna, and are always getting mixed up in surreal adventures. Whether it's encountering cupcakes that spring to life, befriending potted...

Winner of the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition."Top Shelf has a real winner with Aaron Renier's delightful, action-packed graphic novel for all ages. Innocence and naiveté dominate the character traits of the cast of cute, anthropomorphic characters while the meaning of friendship...

ONE OF BOOKLIST'S TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS OF THE YEAR!NOMINATED FOR THE EISNER AWARD (Best Graphic Album: Reprint)!"This is a rip-roarin' yarn set in Europe during WW2 about spies and assassins crossing paths -- sometimes with lethal consequences. Fifty-odd short tales are all connected, telling a bigger...

"Be A Man skews and distorts the portrait of Jeffrey Brown to fulfill the modern, unhealthy, masculine paradigm." -- Read Yourself RawJeffrey 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 self-involved gratification....

"James Kochalka draws beautiful music.” -- Nicholas Gurewitch, creator of The Perry Bible Fellowship"[Kochalka] brings the joy back to comics.” -- Frank Miller, creator of Sin City and 300"Easily my favorite comic James Kochalkas ever done.” -- Brandon Boyer, BoingBoing Offworld"Sure to solve the...

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecroppers farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving...

A brand-new paperback edition of the one and only prose novel by Alan Moore! (with an Introduction by Neil Gaiman, a signature of full-color plates by José Villarrubia, and a cover design by Chip Kidd).In a story full of lust, madness and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in...

"Kochalka's simple line drawings and bright crayon colors stand out in this sweet, silly graphic novel. Children will easily identify with Johnny Boos sense of fun and with his fear at meeting someone new." -- Snow Wildsmith, BooklistJohnny Boo has boo power and his pet ghost Squiggle has squiggle power....

"Mr. Brown seems to understand perfectly the day-to-day rhythms of the modern 'young adult' relationship. Unlikely, like his first book Clumsy, is pretty much impossible to put down." -- Daniel Clowes, creator of Ghost World, Art School Confidential, and Eightball"A million little brilliant and honest...

Its a tired but true cliché that every American Vice President is just a heartbeat away from the most powerful job in the world … a job theyve often never really interviewed for. Who are these people? We all know about the one who shot his hunting partner in the face, but how about the tavern owner...

“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 artists person. Although allegory without substance, all action and no moral, its delightful fluff.” -- Library Journal“Its...

"... 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 down the...

“Its all wonderfully silly and, except for a few pungent expressions, genuinely childlike and playful, radiating an aura of being made up as it goes along. Just plain delightful.” -- Booklist“This pocket-sized volume is to The Transformers what Avenue Q is to Sesame Street -- a mocking, fawning,...