Leaf Pham Thu Trà Jess Fink’s Top Shelf debut

Jess Fink’s Top Shelf debut reads like a whimsical love-child of steampunk

A The Washington Post Best Book of 2022

In a society where women's stories of childbirth and early motherhood are expected to be either fairy tales or else not told at all

All she wants to do is tuck her fedora under her arm

and it works like a charm

Leaf Pham Thu Trà Jess Fink’s Top Shelf debutBy Daishu Ma. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 96 pages, 2 Colour, 2015. A brightly glowing leaf effects change in this wordless graphic novel. How much power does a single man, let alone a single leaf, have in the industrial world? In this wordless, all ages graphic novel, our protagonist discovers a leaf that radiates a vibrant light. He returns to a detailed metropolis depicted in somber grays and blues and searches for answers. During his