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Review: Girl Town by Carolyn Nowak

January 18, 2019January 8, 2019 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments carolyn nowak, comics, girl town, review, Top Shelf

It is about time that Carolyn Nowak has a collection of her work. Having won two Ignatz awards and plenty

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Review: Her Bark & Her Bite by James Albon

December 10, 2018December 6, 2018 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments comics, her bark & her bite, james albon, review, Top Shelf

I’m still working through some older books I’ve been meaning to review; hope you have enjoyed the last few days

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Review: Mechaboys by James Kochalka

July 13, 2018July 12, 2018 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments comics, james kochalka, mechaboys, review, Top Shelf

James Kochalka is one of a handful of hyperproductive cartoonists working in small press comics. His recent output has rotated

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Review: Bottled, by Chris Gooch

December 8, 2017December 7, 2017 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments bottled, chris gooch, comics, review, Top Shelf

Top Shelf has taken on some younger cartoonists and is publishing a few debuts this fall. One of these debut

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Comics that Challenged Me in 2016: Part 5

January 11, 2017January 6, 2019 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments black box, cigarette girl, comics, comics that challenged me, ctcm2016, czap books, epilogue, fantagraphics, grindstone comics, handbook, julia gfrörer, kevin budnik, kevin czap, Landfill Editions, leylines, mould map, One Percent Press, Top Shelf

We’re nearing the end of the list – it’s only today and Friday and we’ll have finished up this year’s exercise

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May 9, 2016June 3, 2017 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments Benjamin Frisch, comics, fun family, review, Top Shelf

Review: The Fun Family by Benjamin Frisch  Remixing the dusty, rattling corpses of newspaper comics has become something of a

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