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Low Orbit – A Small Town Coming-of-Age, Coming Out Story from Kazimir Lee and Top Shelf Productions Told Through a Sci-Fi Novel Lens 

  • by Gary Usher
  • June 16, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Kazimir Lee Iskander is a 2008 graduate of the Minnesota College of Art and Design (BFA, Animation), as well as a 2016 graduate of the Center For…

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It Rhymes with Takei – Set to Stun? George Takei’s New Graphic Memoir from Top Shelf Tells a Story of Coming Out Later in Life

  • by Edward Picot
  • June 3, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! George Takei played Sulu in the original Star Trek. In 2019 he published They Called us Enemy, a graphic memoir which tells how he and his family,…

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Mary Tyler MooreHawk – Dave Baker’s Exercise in Metafictional Narrative is One of the Most Intriguingly Experimental Graphic Novels of the Last Decade

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2025

One thing I have come to expect from the work of Dave Baker (as seen in our coverage at Broken Frontier of his multiple comics collaborations with Nicole Goux) is…

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Transitions: A Mother’s Journey – A Different Perspective on the Trans Experience from Élodie Durand and Top Shelf

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! We have covered many graphic memoir accounts of trans lived experiences over the years here at Broken Frontier but in the pages of Élodie Durand’s Transitions: A…

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Preview: The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic – Alan Moore and Steve Moore’s Celebration of Magic Coming from Top Shelf/Knockabout

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 19, 2024

Check out some preview pages from the highly anticipated The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic below… Legendary Magician/Author Alan Moore Joins Steve Moore and Five Artists to Present…

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But You Have Friends – Emilia McKenzie’s Haunting Study of Friendship and Loss is One of 2023’s Key Comics Releases

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 14, 2023

(Content warning: references to suicide follow). When you are entrenched in both the world of comics commentary, and the larger community of practice that surrounds it, you are constantly aware…

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Élodie Durand’s ‘Transitions: A Mother’s Journey’ to Give an Another Perspective on the Trans Experience in November Via Top Shelf Productions

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 18, 2023

Admittedly we are catching up a little with some important press releases post-SLCZF including this one from Top Shelf Productions spotlighting November’s releases of Transitions: A Mother’s Journey by Élodie…

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Coming from Top Shelf Productions in August, Emilia McKenzie’s Poignant Graphic Memoir ‘But You Have Friends’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2023

One of the particular perks of being a part of a platform like Broken Frontier is getting to see work-in-progress long before it reaches publishers and eventually book shop shelves….

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A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White’s Influential Novel of 1950s Gay Awakening Comes to Comics from Top Shelf Productions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Edmund White’s semi-autobiographical novel A Boy’s Own Story was first published in 1982 and became the first in a trilogy of queer coming-of-age books. It has been…

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Preview: Ashes – Álvaro Ortiz’s Surreal Road Trip Debuts from Top Shelf in February

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 5, 2023

A new year means new releases to plug. Below we have a first look at Álvaro Ortiz’s Ashes from Top Shelf Productions, hitting stores on February 7th. Polly, Moho, and…

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Top Shelf to Publish ‘Funny Things’, a Graphic Biography of ‘Peanuts’ Creator Charles Schulz, in Summer 2023

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 2, 2022

With the Charles Schulz centenary inspiring us all to dig out those Peanuts collections there’s timely news indeed this week via Top Shelf Productions. Coming next summer Funny Things is…

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Preview: Doughnuts and Doom – Balazs Lorinczi’s LGBTQ+ Teen Romance from Top Shelf Hits Shelves Next Week

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 2, 2022

A struggling witch, a failed musician and “a fantastical love story” are the key elements of Balazs Lorinczi’s Doughnuts and Doom, a new graphic novel debuting next week from Top…

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Animal Stories – Peter and Maria Hoey Immerse Us Once Again in the Limitless Possibilities of Sequential Art as a Visual Language

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2022

If you love comics that tell stories in ways that only comics can then the work of sibling duo Peter and Maria Hoey is undoubtedly for you. We’ve given them…

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Exclusive Preview: The Bend of Luck – Check Out Pages from Peter and Maria Hoey’s New Graphic Novel from Top Shelf

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 15, 2022

The work of Peter and Maria Hoey under Coin-Op banner has had extensive coverage here at Broken Frontier in recent years. The sibling partnership are having something of a high…

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Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator – New Graphic Memoir by Sofia Warren Coming from Top Shelf in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 27, 2022

Described by no less a cartooning legend than Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau as a “beautifully-rendered account of a rookie’s initiation into state politics: an exhilarating baptism of fire, and a…

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Top Shelf to Publish ‘Animal Stories’ by Coin-Op Duo Peter and Maria Hoey this December

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 10, 2021

Broken Frontier Award-nominated creators Peter and Maria Hoey of Coin-Op fame have a new comics anthology collection coming from Top Shelf Productions this December. The duo’s work is very highly…

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The Delicacy – James Albon Takes His Characters on a Dark Fungi-Fuelled Journey of Gastronomic Ambition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2021

There’s something intimately appealing about a graphic narrative that so deftly wrongfoots the reader by taking them in one assumed direction before turning their expectations on their head. I went…

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Camp Spirit – Axelle Lenoir’s LGBTeen Summer Camp Story Returns Us to the Long Summers of our Youth

  • by Holly Raidl
  • April 21, 2020

Elodie – a character carrying some serious teenage angst – is the way in which Axelle Lenoir transports us to a summer camp in ’90s Canada in the pages of…

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