Comic-Con 2015: Top Shelf debuts, con exclusives, Team MARCH, and more!

♫It's the most wonderful time of the year...♫ — Comic-Con time, of course! Join us next week for a special milestone: Top Shelf's first San Diego Comic-Con since joining the IDW Publishing family. We'll be marking the occasion in TWO locations, both at IDW's booth #2743 and at the Top Shelf island in its historic home, booth #1721.
And what have we got in store? You may have already heard about our special Comic-Con exclusives, but that's just the tip of the iceberg...

Legendary civil rights icon and #1 New York Times bestselling author Congressman John Lewis returns to Comic-Con along with his award-winning collaborators Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, ready to meet you at their Saturday morning panel and discuss their newest bestseller March: Book Two, now available in a limited signed & numbered hardcover edition!

Hunter S. Thompson's FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (The Graphic Novel) Adapted by Troy Little!

Marietta, GA (May 27, 2015) – Legendary journalist Hunter S. Thompson's genius was rooted in his ability to blend reality with fiction, serious cultural analysis with madcap escapades, astonishing words with unforgettable images. In that spirit, and in proud partnership with the Thompson estate, Top Shelf Productions is pleased to announce Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a delightfully bonkers graphic novel by Eisner-nominated artist Troy Little adapting Thompson's book of the same name.

Kevin O'Neill leads a LEAGUE of Top Shelf talent at #SDCC 2014!

Hang on to your seats... this is the big one! San Diego Comic-Con is nearly upon us, and once again we've got an incredible line-up ready for you there. Let's dive right in:

Famed artist Kevin O'Neill is coming all the way from London for his first US appearance in years, to debut the complete League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century hardcover, including a $50 limited edition, signed & numbered by both himself and writer Alan Moore (which is Top Shelf's first ever official Comic-Con exclusive)!

JOHNNY BOOK, BOOK 5 by James Kochalka

JOHNNY BOOK (BOOK 5): JOHNNY BOO DOES SOMETHING!
by James Kochalka
-- A 40-page full-color hardcover graphic novel, 6" x 9"
-- ISBN 978-1-60309-084-1, $9.95 (US)
-- Audience: All ages (4-8 and up)
-- Available now!

BURNING BUILDING COMIX by Jeff Zwirek

BURNING BUILDING COMIX
by Jeff Zwirek
-- Full-color hardcover graphic novel, 6.25" x 12.25" (unfolds to 6.25" x 24.5")
-- 40 pages
-- ISBN 978-0-9858751-3-8
-- $19.95 (US)
-- Audience: Mature readers (16+)
-- Self-published by Jeff Zwirek & distributed by Top Shelf
-- In the current DIAMOND PREVIEWS (for books shipping in June)

A MATTER OF LIFE by Jeffrey Brown

A MATTER OF LIFE by Jeffrey Brown
-- Full-color hardcover graphic novel, 5.25" x 8"
-- 96 pages
-- ISBN 978-1-60309-266-1
-- $14.95 (US)
-- Audience: Mature readers (16+)
-- In the current DIAMOND PREVIEWS (for books shipping in June)

New in Digital from Top Shelf!

Load up on our latest magnificent releases for your smartphone, tablet, or computer screen!

-- Dear Beloved Stranger by Dino Pai - $4.99 (US) DIGITAL
-- Double Barrel #8 by Kevin Cannon & Zander Cannon - $1.99 (US) DIGITAL
-- American Elf 2006 by James Kochalka - $1.99 (US) DIGITAL
-- Nemo: Heart of Ice by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill - $4.99 (US) DIGITAL

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Top Shelf Productions Press Release

Pre-Orders Still Open for Limited-Edition Heck & Crater XV!

Don't miss these thrilling adventures from two of indie comics' top talents. Pre-order now from your favorite retailer, or grab the deluxe signed & numbered bundles available from Top Shelf!

Announcing The From Hell Companion and We Can Fix It!

Tons of new digital releases!

Top Shelf's digital publishing program continues to expand, faster than ever! Recently we've not only seen killer new releases in the American Elf digital series, the Cannon brothers' unmissable Double Barrel magazine, and Robert Venditti's new Surrogates Case Files series, we've shared with you a true original with Patt Kelley's What Am I Going to Do Without You? and teamed up with Retrofit Comics to bring you digital editions of some of their finest work. Grab your reading device and load up!

August Moon debuts in the Diamond Previews catalog!

Jess Smart Smiley's Halloween adventure Upside Down: A Vampire Tale isn't the only book for youth Top Shelf is releasing this fall... we're also excited to welcome Australian cartoonist Diana Thung to Top Shelf, with her evocative and complex fable AUGUST MOON! This magical story is a delight for teens and adult readers, reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki at his most captivating, and it's available for pre-ordering in the current Diamond Previews (for books shipping in October):

Pre-order now: UPSIDE DOWN by Jess Smart Smiley, and the new printing of Pat Grant's hit BLUE!

Finally, we're very happy to welcome a new face to the Top Shelf family, and to the Top Shelf Kids Club: the charming and talented Jess Smart Smiley! His new book Upside Down: A Vampire Tale has been introduced in our Kids Club sampler at Free Comic Book Day, and now it's coming to your store, in time for Halloween this fall! See why

Hot off the press and heading to your store!

IN STORES JULY 4TH:
Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker
by Ed Piskor

Inspired by the incredible stories of real-life computer hackers, Wizzywig is the thrilling tale of a master manipulator, Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle -- his journey from precocious child scammer to federally-wanted fugitive, and beyond. In a world transformed by social networks, data leaks, and digital uprisings, Ed Piskor's debut graphic novel reminds us how much power can rest in the hands of an audacious kid with a keyboard. Named "the next big thing in graphic novels" by Rolling Stone magazine! -- a 288-page deluxe hardcover, $19.95 (US).

Cannon + Cannon = DOUBLE BARREL!

Two Cannons. Two comics. Two dollars. DOUBLE BARREL!

It all begins in this 122-page double-stuffed first issue. First: Zander Cannon presents HECK, the story of washed-up high school football hero Hector Hammarskjöld, who returns to his hometown for his father's funeral... only to discover a portal to the underworld! Then: following the smash success of his first graphic novel FAR ARDEN, Kevin Cannon returns with an all-new saga of that Arctic crusty sea-dog Army Shanks, as he encounters the mysterious CRATER XV!

Top Shelf graphic novels: now available on Kobo!

Top Shelf's quest to be available on every digital platform continues, as we announce that our graphic novels are now available for Kobo, reaching readers and devices in over 170 countries! 40 titles are available in our Kobo catalog so far, with more coming soon!

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Top Shelf Productions Press Release

Top Shelf FREE Digital Action Pack available now!

Savvy to digital comics and looking for something new to read? Curious about e-reading and hesitant to take the plunge? Look no further than the Top Shelf Action Pack, packed with 168 pages of our most thrilling comics, and yours for the price of ZERO! Inside are full chapters from seven graphic novels:

Infinite Kung Fu,
The Homeland Directive,
Lost Dogs,
From Hell,
SuperF*ckers,
Bighead, and
Any Empire!

Get Top Shelf books through your library via Overdrive!

Librarians, we're got your backs: Top Shelf is partnering with Overdrive, the leading digital distributor for libraries! Libraries can now purchase ebooks of the full Top Shelf Kids Club line -- 19 titles -- and offer them for free e-lending to patrons. So contact your local library and let them know you'd like to read OWLY, KORGI, JOHNNY BOO and more on your electronic device!

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Top Shelf Productions Press Release

Best-selling LEAGUE: CENTURY trilogy reaches explosive finale!

Now, at last, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy reaches its apocalyptic finale!

In this third and final chapter, our narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London 2009. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised aeon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended starting with North London, and there is no League, extraordinary or otherwise, that now stands in his way. The bitter, intractable war of attrition in Q'umar crawls bloodily to its fifth year, away in Kashmir a Sikh terrorist with a now-nuclear-armed submarine wages a holy war against Islam that might push the whole world into atomic holocaust, and in a London mental institution there's a patient who insists that she has all the answers.

Top Shelf Cyber Monday Sale: 30% off!

Top Shelf Cyber Monday: 30% off!
Pick up some graphic novels for the ones you love.

Dear friends,

As the holiday season arrives, we're so thankful for your support -- our fans have always been the engine powering everything we do, and the motivation to make the best Top Shelf books possible. This year, amid all the seasonal shopping madness, we're showing our thanks with a massive one-day Cyber Monday Sale: 30% OFF EVERYTHING in the web store! Just enter the code CYBERTSP at checkout to get 30% off your entire order. The sale ends Monday night, so be quick!

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Top Shelf Productions Press Release

Top Shelf goes digital!

The comic book industry takes another significant step into the future today, as Top Shelf Productions offers its award-winning library of graphic novels for sale in digital form through two dedicated apps -- one for general readers and one for kids.