James Kochalka, Author . Top Shelf $14.95 (141p) ISBN 978-1-60309-052-0
A superhero team book like no other, Kochalka's gleefully disjointed romp explores what a group of young, confused people with superpowers would probably actually do, which is to say what the ones without superpowers tend to do: spend all their
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James Kochalka, Author Top Shelf Productions $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-891830-49-5
This massive collection of Kochalka's cartoon diaries covers five years of his life. Each day is represented by a cartoon capturing a single moment of the day. These moments range from a haircut to reflections on nature to funny exchanges with...
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James Kochalka. First Second, $17.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59643-917-7
Johnny Boo creator Kochalka introduces a three-eyed, three-toothed, pink alien who sets a new intergalactic bar for nincompoopery. In the course of 20 brief chapters, the Glorkian Warrior attempts to deliver a pizza—never mind that the phone call...
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James Kochalka. Top Shelf, $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-60309-423-8
Kochalka delivers another joyously strange, boyish fantasy of a piece with his SuperF*ckers. High school seniors and best friends Zeus and Jamie are working on building a robot suit out of dismantled appliances. Jamie, physically small and naive,...
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James Kochalka, Author, James Kochalka, Illustrator . Highwater Books/ Alternative Comics $14.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-891867-18-7
Like much of Kochalka's work, this
is a series of intertwined episodes that progresses linearly but without much plot. Readers follow Amy and Josh, pals and superheroes of sorts (the Fantastic Butterflies of the title), and Magic Boy, Amy's...
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James Kochalka, Author, James Kochalka, Illustrator . Top Shelf $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-891830-85-3
Rock star and indie comics savant Kochalka (Monkey vs. Robot
) is back with his second collection of "sketchbook diary entries" from his popular Web comic. Some strips depict a working cartoonist's life: signings at comic book stores,...
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James Kochalka, Author, James Kochalka, Illustrator . Top Shelf $9.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-60309-059-9
Johnny Boo is a happy little ghost, and his sidekick friend, Squiggle, returns in his fourth adventure. Squiggle just wants to spend the day playing with him. However, Johnny Boo insists he's playing with another friend (that he makes up), to...
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James Kochalka, Author, James Kochalka, Illustrator Top Shelf Productions $10 (160p) ISBN 978-1-891830-15-0
Cartoonist and musician Kochalka strikes again, this time with a very simply illustrated black and white pictorial narrative about a battle between a monkey community and a self-run robot factory encroaching on the monkeys' unspoiled forest domain....
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James Kochalka. Graphix, $22.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-338-66048-7
Dog Man meets InvestiGators in this enthusiastic early graphic novel series opener by Eisner Award winner Kochalka (Johnny Boo). In 11 chapters, Kochalka follows the clueless, bungling Banana Fox, a bright yellow long-snouted fox and self-proclaimed
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