LOS ANGELES, CA (April 9, 2026)— Meet Minnie! Minnie is super-strong and super-anxious… but she’ll have to journey through the MicroRealm to save her best friends: her five pets! Top Shelf Productions is set to release the critter adventure, Minnie Pouches in the MicroRealm, available June 23! Middle grade readers are invited to crack open new worlds of adventure in this all-new graphic novel from Eisner-winner Caleb Goellner (TMNT/Naruto, Ghost Cage) and Eric Lide (Sonic the Hedgehog, DragonForged: Sword of the Champion). “I’m mega excited for readers to adventure through the MicroRealm with the mighty Minnie Pouches and her preposterously cute (and powerful) pets,” said co-creator Caleb Goellner. “Getting to work with the perfect editor, artist, and publishing team made this a dream project for me. Now I’m stoked for it to be a dream comic for fans of action, adventure, and the power of friendship!”
“Bringing the MicroRealm to life with this team was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in comics!” said co-creator Eric Lide. “I can’t wait for readers to join Minnie Pouches (and her pets) on this reality-hopping over-the-top adventure! Expect lots of laughs, epic fight scenes, and lots and lots of pizza!” Her parents are famous scientists and multiverse travel influencers…but Minnie Pouches hates being on camera. She feels too big, too shy, and too nervous. She can’t even finish an important middle school project! One day, when the pressure becomes too much, Minnie rage-quits her parents’ show and activates her stylish fanny pack to disappear into the MicroRealm. Now, far from home, she’ll dance through encounters with greasy pizza dinosaurs, angry laser robots, and toothy pool floats to push past her fears, find her missing pets, and save the entire family. Minnie Pouches in the MicroRealm will be available wherever books are sold, as a full-color softcover graphic novel (ISBN: 978-1-60309-590-7) as well as a digital edition, on June 23, 2026, for a list price of $14.99. For more information please visit the Top Shelf web site. About the Creators Caleb Goellner is an Eisner Award winner, writer, and cartoonist best known for his work on Ghost Cagewith artist and co-writer Nick Dragotta from Image Comics and Rest Area 51 with artist Coleman Engle from Tapas Media. He has written Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sonic the Hedgehog stories for IDW Publishing, plus Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Amazing World of Gumball stories for BOOM! Studios. Caleb was born and raised in Kansas City and currently lives with his wife and two pugs in Los Angeles. Eric Lide is a comic artist from New Jersey. He draws the webcomics Station Square and Ozzie the Vampire and covers for IDW’s Sonic the Hedgehog series. Currently, he is working on his debut graphic novel, tentatively titled The Champion of Draeland. About the Publisher Top Shelf Productions has published critically acclaimed and popularly beloved graphic novels since 1997. Celebrating more than a decade as an imprint of IDW Publishing, Top Shelf continues to showcase the vanguard of the comics medium, publishing works of literary sophistication, visionary artistry, and personal resonance. | 
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