Box Office Poison (series)

Box Office Poison
Cover of the Top Shelf collection, published in 2001.
Creator	Alex Robinson
Date	2001
Main characters	Sherman Davies Ed Velasquez Beatrice Dorothy Lestrade Stephen Gaedel Jane Pekar Irving Flavor
Page count	608 pages
Publisher	(comic book) Antarctic Press (collected edition) Top Shelf Productions
Original publication
Published in	Box Office Poison
Issues	1-21
Date of publication	Oct. 1996 – Oct. 2000
Language	English
ISBN	978-1891830198 (paperback)
Translation
Publisher	Rackham
Date	2004
ISBN	978-2878270839
Chronology
Followed by	BOP! More Box Office Poison

Box Office Poison is a series of comic books (originally published by Antarctic Press) by Alex Robinson. It was published in collected form by Top Shelf Productions in 2001. The story concerns the life and trials of a group of young people in New York City.

The French edition won the Prix du premier album (Prize for First Comic Book) at the 2005 Angoulême International Comics Festival.

The A.V. Club named Box Office Poison one of the best comics of the decade.^[1] Top 100 Graphic Novels named it as the 84th best comic ever made.^[2]