by Julie Doucet
Five years ago Julie Doucet renounced her comics-centric lifestyle. But Doucet could not turn her back on art, and this visual journal is an idiosyncratic collision of her various creative interests, wherein personal narrative, collage and drawing tell the story of her pursuits into printmaking and beyond, chronicling her maturation as a mid-career artist as she extends into a broader arts community. Doucet blurs the boundaries between high art, illustration, craft and comics: where panel borders once divided pages, collage creeps in; events and doodles merge; recollection and narrative blend with the abstract. The surreal neurosis of her comics has subsided to reveal a more relaxed creativity that is unrestricted by form or definition and is as engaging as ever.

By Matt Kindt
What would it be like to stand head and shoulders above everyone else-and to keep growing? Unable to interact with a fragile world that isn't built to withstand your size? To live in a house that doesn't fit you anymore-with a wife who doesn't either? Craig Pressgang's life is well documented in his official CIA biography, Giant Man: Pillar of America, but the heroic picture it paints is only half the story. The continuous growth caused by Craig's strange medical condition brings a variety of problems as he becomes more isolated and unknowable. Told in three eras by three women with unique relationships with Craig, 3 Story follows his sad life from his birth to the present.

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

"The author's careful control of line expresses a broad range of emotion, and his layouts are so thoughtfully paced that his craft becomes invisible, always serving the story rather than drawing attention to itself."--Washington Post

Abandon The Old In Tokyo is the second in a three-volume series that collects the short stories of Japanese cartooning legend Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Designed and edited by Adrian Tomine, the first volume, The Push Man and Other Stories, debuted to much critical acclaim and rightfully placed Tatsumi as a legendary precursor to the North American graphic novel movement. Abandon The Old In Tokyo continues to delve into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Tatsumi’s maturation as a storywriter.
The introduction is penned by Koji Suzuki, the best-selling author of the Ring trilogy (Ring, Spiral, Loop), as well as Dark Water and Birthday (all published in America by Vertical). His stories have been the basis for several blockbuster films in both Japan and the United States. He lives in Tokyo.

Writer: Chris Hastings, Benito Cereno
Penciller: Les McClaine
Artist: Chris Hastings
Cover Artist: Carly Monardo
What's better than an evil unicorn motorcycle, monster gang wars, a tennis match against a god of destruction, and bandidos on velociraptors?
Yeah, we couldn't think of anything, either!
Award--winning cartoonist Chris Hastings teams up with Dark Horse Books to bring his smash--hit webcomic to print with the first three full--color story arcs of Dr. McNinja, as well as an exclusive--to--print story by Benito Cereno and Les McClaine.
* Collects "Monster Mart," "Death Volley," and "Doc Gets Rad" (previously published at drmcninja.com), and the new, exclusive--to--print story "Winter Wonderdome."
* Drmcninja.com receives up to 200,000 unique visitors on update days.

(W) Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental
(A) Stanislas Barthelemy

The Adventures of Herge is a biographical comic about the world-renowned comics artist Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name, Herge. Meticulously researched, with references to many of the Tintin albums and complete with a bibliography and mini-bios for each of the main 'characters,' the biography is appropriately drawn in Herge's iconic clear line style as an homage to the Tintin adventures that have commanded the attention of readers across the world and of many generations. Seven-year-old Herge first discovered his love of drawing in 1914 when his mother gave him some crayons to stay out of trouble. He continued drawing in school when he fatefully met the editor of XXe Siecle magazine, where Tintin first appeared. His popularity skyrocketed from the 1930s through post-WWII. Herge was perceived by some to have aided the Nazi government in Belgium by continuing to publish Tintin in a government-sanctioned magazine, and he was briefly imprisoned in the aftermath of the war and narrowly escaped execution. Also covered are his marriage troubles in the 1950s and subsequent affair with Fanny Vlamynck, who went on to become his lifelong partner; his late career in the 1960s, as his interest in Tintin waned and he occasionally 'disappeared' for weeks at a time as he contemplated giving up his career to become a fine-arts painter; and a recounting of a humorous encounter with Andy Warhol.

Writing and Art by Hermann
Published by Dark Horse

The masterpiece by Belgian comics creator Hermann is available in English for the first time! A misanthropic European expatriate, Dario Ferrer, acts as guardian of a Tanzanian wildlife preserve. Accompanied by Charlotte, a naive European journalist, Ferrer discovers a village under fire from mysterious agents of the foreign-backed government. Ferrer and Charlotte must fight not only to protect the preserve, but to expose government corruption-and survive to see another day.

Written and art by Ricardo Delgado, colored by James Sinclair and Jim Campbell

When Ricardo Delgado -- a prolific development and storyboard artist who has worked on such hit films as Men in Black, The Incredibles, WALL-E, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and the Matrix series -- first set his sights on creating comics, he crafted an epic tale about the most unlikely cast of characters: dinosaurs. Since that first foray into the world of sequential art, he has returned to his Age of Reptiles again and again, each time crafting a captivating saga about his saurian subjects. This volume collects the long-out-of-print Age of Reptiles and Age of Reptiles: The Hunt, and the never-before-collected third series, Age of Reptiles: The Journey.

by Guy Delisle
Limbs are swapped and pants are dropped in Albert and The Others, a collection of wordless strips that expose the pleasures, pitfalls and perversities of masculinity. In this companion volume to Aline and the Others, Guy Delisle delves deep into the male psyche and emerges with 26 alphabetically arranged strips, named after the men who tumble through the pages. These elastic protagonists risk damnation and dismemberment in a series of improbable slapstick relationships with women that veer from the titillating to the downright macabre.

(W) Paulo Coelho (A) Daniel Sampere
Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is one such book, a modern classic, universally admired. Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangier and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and above all, following our dreams.

Writer:Lewis Trondheim
Artist:Lewis Trondheim
The first extraterrestrial comic book in print on planet Earth!
At last we have an answer to the question: What do alien kids read?
Who knows how many light-years this beaten-up, weatherworn volume has traveled to land up in the hands of an earthling like you? This rare artifact from another planet is written in an entirely alien language and alphabet, which you may be the first human to decipher.
Whichever galaxy they’re from, these interwoven tales prove that some stories are indeed universal - and that others are, well ... weird, bizarre, and clearly not of this world. But no matter how many eyes, legs, or tentacles they have, it’s nice to know that aliens too can smile, cry, poop, make friends, be kind or be cruel, fall prey to peer pressure, and sometimes make a total mess of things while trying to do good.

Women literally lose their heads as they swap limbs and lovers in Aline and the others, a collection of 26 sublimely perverse wordless strips by Guy Delisle, best known for his internationally successful books from D+Q, Pyongyang and Shenzhen. Arranged alphabetically, the strips are named after their 26 vivacious female protagonists who stretch, shrink, disappear into one another's orifices and jump off the page in stories that are as hilarious as they are utterly bizarre, dynamically brought to life by Delisle's skillful hand as an animator.

by Jigounov & Renard
Assia Donkova is a young Muscovite, idealistic and very attractive. As the manager of an art gallery, she visits Paris museums and exhibitions in search of new Western talents. She meets painter Julian Morgan in front of a Monet. Quickly, the young woman falls under his spell. But is Julian an aspiring painter? Why does he spy on Assia's every move? And what are the mysterious appointments Assia keeps? Russian mafia and powerful financial organisations are at the heart of a diabolical machination...

Writer - Steven T. Seagle
Art - Tim Sale
One of the earliest projects from acclaimed writer Steven T. Seagle and superstar artist Tim Sale returns in a gorgeous hardcover edition! The Amazon jungle is among the most ancient and biologically diverse places on earth, but it's being plundered for its resources and destroyed at a rate of thousands of acres a day. Reporter Malcolm Hilliard travels to this remote land of mystery to investigate the disappearance of an American worker and the subsequent sabotage of a timber company. Once there, Malcolm learns about the local cultures and myths, experiences the dark underside of industrial progress, gets drugged and left to fend for himself in the jungle, and is confronted by the Spirit of the Amazon itself in Seagle and Sale's South American Heart of Darkness. This deluxe twentieth-anniversary hardcover features new colors by Matt Hollingsworth, and a new cover by Tim Sale and Dave Stewart!

Winner of the Ignatz Award for both Outstanding Comic and Outstanding Online Comic.
Kochalka's diaries have utterly redefined the daily comic strip. His attempt to document the minutia of his life results in work that explores the full spectrum of human emotions. Drawn with verve and confidence by a cartoonist at the height of his powers, it is ambitious, hilarious, moving, and quite addictive! This astounding book follows the ups and downs of Kochalka's life through 5 full years of the strip, plus also includes 32 full color pages of supplementary comics and other artwork. Quite simply, this is Kochalka's masterpiece.
To celebrate the 5-year anniversary of James Kochalka's critically acclaimed SKETCHBOOK DIARIES series, Top Shelf will also produce a hardcover edition of AMERICAN ELF. This is a web exclusive, with the first printing limited to 500 copies. -- 520 pages.

(W) Claudio Sanchez, Peter David (A) Chris Burnham

For the new The Amory Wars series, Eisner Award-winner Peter David joins creator Claudio Sanchez for this science fiction franchise, so don't miss out! Heard about the groundbreaking The Amory Wars but never had a chance to get into it? This trade paperback collecting the first arc is a great entry point for new readers. Created by Claudio Sanchez, lead-singer of Coheed and Cambria!

By Chris Blythe and Steve Parkhouse
John Dury is a slick corporate raider with a taste for the high life. This includes the latest designer drug, but instaed of the ultimate high, his wild celebration of a new deal takes him to depths he couldn't have imagined!

By: Vera Brosgol

Anya would give almost anything if she could have a real friend. So she takes the first offer of friendship she gets - from a ghost! But things don't quite go the way she'd expected.

Writer/Artist:Tori Miki
The American debut of one of Japan's most distinctive humorous voices. Tori Miki has won awards for his essays, screenplays and manga, including the prestigious Bunshun Manga Award. With four best-selling volumes released to date, the comic strip series, ANYWHERE BUT HERE, is one of his greatest successes. Running weekly in Japan's TV Bros, a respected magazine of television and media criticism, ANYWHERE BUT HERE is a wordless comic strip that could perhaps best be described as "Monty Python meets The Far Side meets Zen humor." Miki's unnamed lead character (modelled after himself) works as a bookstore owner, but somehow finds himself entangled with aliens, alternate realities, and other mysterious disturbances in the space-time continuum. Like Gary Larson's The Far Side, ANYWHERE BUT THERE can leave you scratching your head in bemusement almost as often as it makes you laugh, but we've selected the very best of his first two volumes for this special collection, printed in an elegant two-color edition.

by Mark Smylie
Winner of ForeWord magazine's "Best Graphic Novel of 2003." In the Highlands of the Middle Kingdoms, where witchcraft and warlords vie for power, a warrior-priestess named Artesia fights for her king against the rulers of rival citadels. Collecting all six issues of the first Artesia mini-series! Includes dustjacket.

By David Mazzucchelli
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. He leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this 'escape' really about? As the story shifts from present to past, the pieces of Polyp's life come together and we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she's gone; what has happened to her? Mazzucchelli's extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception becomes a masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.

Writer: Larry Young Artist: Charlie Adlard. All three stories are included: LIVE FROM THE MOON, SPACE:1959, and ONE SHOT, ONE BEER, as well as short stories by Brian Wood, Kieron Dwyer, and Darick Robertson.

This collection of short stories illustrates, quite literally, the effectiveness of the medium for telling the most personal of stories - the autobiography - and does so by showcasing some of the first published autobiographical stories from living-legend artists, mainstream greats, and young "indie" up-and-comers.

Written by Aaron Ehasz, Josh Hamilton, Tim Hedrick, Dave Roman, J. Torres and Johanne Matte, art by Joaquim Dos Santo, Elsa Garagarza, Gurihiru, Corey Lewis, Johanne Matte, Ethan Spaulding and others.

For three years, millions of eager fans tuned in to watch new episodes of Nickelodeon's hit animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Ever since, fans have been hungry for more -- and now their wait is finally over!

This volume collects the long-out-of-print, fan-favorite comics previously published in Nickelodeon Magazine and with the Airbender DVDs, plus over seventy brand-new comics pages. That's twenty-six stories set in Airbender continuity, by a host of top-notch talent, many of whom worked on the original animated series!

Twenty-six in-continuity stories, plus bonus content! The latest release in an ongoing partnership between Nickelodeon and Dark Horse, to bring you the very best in Airbender books!

Written by Gene Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
Art and Cover by Gurihiru
Published by Dark Horse

The wait is over! Ever since the conclusion of Avatar: The Last Airbender, its millions of fans have been hungry for more-and it's finally here! This series of digests rejoins Aang and friends for exciting new adventures, beginning with a faceoff against the Fire Nation that threatens to throw the world into another war, testing all of Aang's powers and ingenuity! o The continuation of Airbender and the link to its upcoming sequel, Legend of Korra! o Written by Gene Yang, author of the National Book Award-nominated American Born Chinese.

Writer:Marguerite Abouet
Artist:Clément Oubrerie
Winner of the 2006 award for Best New Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Aya tells the story of its 19-year old heroine, the studious and clear-sighted Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbours. It’s a breezy and wryly funny account of the desire for joy and freedom, and of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City.
An unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa we rarely see (Abouet is from the Ivory Coast) - spirited, hopeful and resilient. Clément Oubreri’s warm colours and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet’s vibrant writing.