Lesbian gladiators in space: Welcome to COSMOKNIGHTS!
For this ragtag band of space gays,
liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game.
Pan’s life used to be very small. Work in her dad’s body shop, sneak out with her friend Tara to go dancing, and watch the skies for freighter ships. It didn’t even matter that Tara was a princess… until one day it very much did matter, and Pan had to say goodbye forever.
Years later, when a charismatic pair of off-world gladiators show up on her doorstep, she finds that life may not be as small as she thought.
On the run and off the galactic grid, Pan discovers the astonishing secrets of her neo-medieval world… and the intoxicating possibility of burning it all down.
Cosmoknights (Book One) by Hannah Templer
ISBN 978-1-60309-454-2 • Diamond: MAY190659
$19.99 (US) • full-color interiors • Adult/YA crossover
a 216-page softcover graphic novel with flaps, • 6 5/8″ x 10 3/8″
Coming in Fall 2019
Check out the free webcomic serial.
Then pre-order the book from your favorite retailer!
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Enter the eerie world of Chris Gooch: Take DEEP BREATHS!
The award-winning Chris Gooch (Bottled) is a rising star of the vibrant Australian comics scene. This eerie and evocative collection reveals the astonishing spectrum of his storytelling powers.
A space bounty hunter tracks down a frog princess, a woman finds a condom where it shouldn’t be, and a spoiled art student works his first freelance job. Deep Breaths is a collection of short comics about tension, violence, monsters, and moments… including the award-winning story “Mooreland Mates” and nine other tales, rarely or never before seen.
Deep Breaths by Chris Gooch
ISBN 978-1-60309-455-9 • Diamond: MAY190660
$19.99 (US) • partial-color interiors • for mature readers
a 208-page softcover graphic novel/collection with flaps • 5.8″ x 8.3″
Coming in Fall 2019
Check out a 7-page interior preview.
Then pre-order from your favorite retailer!
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THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Concludes!
Welcome to the story to end all stories. Two decades of literary League lunacy have all been building to this, the most ambitious meta-comic imaginable.
After an epic twenty-year journey through the entirety of human culture – the biggest cross-continuity ‘universe’ that is conceivable – Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series’ spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest. Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world’s most accomplished and bad-tempered artist-writer team use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet to display the glories of the medium they are leaving; to demonstrate the excitement that attracted them to the field in the first place; and to analyse, critically and entertainingly, the reasons for their departure.
Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha’s lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of ‘We’ on the devastated Earth of the year 2,996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World; from the Jacobean antiquity of Prospero’s Men to the superhero-inundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories. Originally published as a six-issue run of unfashionable, outmoded and flimsy children’s comics that would make you appear emotionally backward if you read them on the bus, this climactic magnum opus also reprints classic English super-team publication The Seven Stars from the murky black-and-white reaches of 1964. A magnificent celebration of everything comics were, are and could be, any appreciator or student of the medium would be unwise to miss The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: THE TEMPEST.
Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions (US) and Knockabout (UK).
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol IV): The Tempest — HARDCOVER
by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
ISBN 978-1-60309-456-6 • Diamond: MAY190661
$29.99 (US) • full-color interiors • for mature readers
a 224-page hardcover graphic novel • free 3-D glasses • 6 5/8″ x 10 3/8″
Coming in Fall 2019
Check out a 2-page interior preview.
Then pre-order from your favorite retailer!
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LAST CALL to vote in the 2019 EISNER AWARDS!
Today’s the last day for members of the comics industry to vote for the 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards! Among all the great books nominated, we’re honored to have published quite a few:
- Best Publication for Early Readers: Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer, by James Kochalka
- Best Publication for Teens: Gumballs, by Erin Nations
- Best Graphic Album—New: Come Again, by Nate Powell
- Best Graphic Album—Reprint: Girl Town, by Carolyn Nowak
- Best Writer/Artist: Nate Powell, for Come Again
- Best Lettering: Todd Klein, for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest and many other fine books.
And as usual, there are plenty more nominations for Top Shelf’s “extended family,” including another nod for Carolyn Nowak, one for Peter & Maria Hoey for the 7th issue of Coin-Op (our recent hardcover collects #1-6), plus Jeff Lemire, Mark Russell, Eddie Campbell, and many more, including several great books from our IDW colleagues!
Congrats to all the nominees — hit EisnerVote.com today, and we’ll all celebrate next month!
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George Takei’s THEY CALLED US ENEMY is a month away!
It’s real!
When George Takei was a young child, he and his family spent years incarcerated by their own country in barbed-wire military camps across America. Today, Takei’s firsthand account of those haunting childhood memories — and how they shaped his astonishing life — is not just an essential chapter in American history, but an all-too-timely reflection on our own era.
They Called Us Enemy will launch simultaneously in stores and at Comic-Con, the week of July 16. The book’s creative team — co-writers George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and artist Harmony Becker — will take the stage at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference next week, as a warm-up for the big launch at San Diego Comic-Con!
Stay tuned for exciting updates coming soon, including TV, radio and much more!