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One of Top Shelf’s recent releases – Gumballs – wasn’t a graphic novel but a new comics series. A quarterly series from the young cartoonist Erin Nations, the first issue contains multiple stories and...

By Gabriel Neeb After nearly twenty years of publication, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill are bringing their series, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN to a close with a fourth volume entitled THE TEMPEST. Although the series...

Lauren Purje studied fine art, but in recent years she’s best known for making comics about the art world – most importantly about what it means to be an artist, especially a young artist....

Though it’s tempting to pronounce the atmosphere in James Albon’s Her Bark And Her Bite as retro or even nostalgic, timeless might be the better word. It pulls from a fantasy version of an...

Farce or tragedy? By August we'll know. But New Yorker's cartoonist Shannon Wheeler (God is Disappointed in You, Grandpa Won't Wake Up) is wasting no time with an ode to our President's greatest medium: the tweet.

With two ongoing series from Image, a new one just announced, a graphic novel from S&S coming in a month, and Black Hammer from Dark Horse, as well as recent work for Marvel and Valiant,...

  Top Shelf really has a knock for finding under-exposed cartoonists who have a distinctive look, especially in the all-ages category. They've just announced  Home Time: Under the River by Australian cartoonist Campbell Whyte. It's about twins, Lilly and David, whose plans...

  https://twitter.com/RebeccAgent/status/826923292992876546   According to this tweet agent Rebecca Sherman who has access to early lists, no doubt. As you may recall, last week controversy erupted when it was revealed the Times was dropping their three graphic novels bestseller...

There are many seekrit troves of free comics lying out there on the internet, like treasure chests ready to be unfolded. That's one of the reasons I started this feature. Top Shelf 2.0 is a...

It's Martin Luther King Day, and the March Trilogy by Rep John Lewis, the last surviving leader of the civil rights movement of the 60s, is the #1 best selling book on Amazon. Isn't...

For the sixth year in a row, The Beat is proud to present the Comics Industry Person of the Year, as chosen by voters in our annual creator survey: Gene Luen Yang. The the Team of the year: Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.

Continuing its "march" to end of year accolades, (sorry) March Book Three topped the annual PW Graphic Novel Critics Poll. Rosalie Lightning came in second and Teh Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, How...