We’re honored and proud to have made it through another year here at Top Shelf — publishing these books is a dream come true for all of us, and it’s all thanks to your support.

Now, as we’re wrapping up a great 2010 and preparing for a truly exciting 2011, we want to say “thank you” and wish you all a very happy holiday season!

All the best,

Chris, Brett, Rob, Leigh & the Top Shelf family

(and dig this lovely piece of winter beauty from longtime Top Shelf pal Max Estes!)

NEW IN PREVIEWS!

INCREDIBLE CHANGE-BOTS TWO
by Jeffrey Brown

Now guess who’s back!

Four years ago, an alien race of shape-changing robots came to Earth, fired ray guns at each other for a while, then gave up and flew away. But they left behind one thing: Shootertron, the semi-cunning leader of the evil Fantasticons! Fortunately for Earth, Shootertron’s memory is a little fuzzy. Unfortunately for Earth, the rest of the Incredible Change-Bots seem to be on their way back… It’s all-new action, drama, and comedy as Shootertron struggles to find an identity on Earth and the rest of the Change-Bots struggle to accomplish much of anything. Hilarious and gleefully childlike, Jeffrey Brown’s Incredible Change-Bots Two is a nostalgic tribute not only to Saturday morning cartoons but also to Jeffrey Brown’s Incredible Change-Bots One.

— $14.95 (US)
— 140-page full-color graphic novel with french flaps

— ISBN 978-1-60309-067-4
— Diamond: JAN11-1337

NIGHT ANIMALS
by Brecht EvensLush colors, wild imagination, and rich human themes collide in the Top Shelf debut of Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens (The Wrong Place). Night Animals is a deluxe full-color comic book containing two wordless stories, each a feast for the mind as well as the eyes. Join an innocent young girl as she becomes a woman and learns where the wild things are, then follow a rabbit-suited man as his blind date becomes the epic journey of a lifetime. These gorgeous, bewitching tales are not to be missed!– $7.95 (US)
— 48-Page full-color deluxe comic book
— 6.75″ x 9.25″
— UPC 094922048837 

Two fantastic full-color books now opening up for pre-orders (to be published in March). Ask your favorite comic shop to save a copy for you!