Category: Announcement

Here’s all the info on this year’s Holiday Party / Art Show / Sale / and Fund Raiser for the Greater Cleveland Food Bank! This year’s art show theme is “Superheroes in Cleveland!” We’ve been hosting our Holiday Art Show since 2012, and we consider it to be one of the most important things we do every year, a great way to unite the community that has built up around the shop for the greater good. Since its inception, we’ve assisted the Greater Cleveland Food Bank in creating over 185,000 meals for those in need during the holidays and beyond. (That’s a real number, too.) The Food Bank has the amazing ability to turn one dollar into three full meals, so every dollar you put into the system in the art show has a very direct result you can measure. Our art show is where local artists create custom comic book covers that we display in the foyer attached to our shop from Wednesday, December 17th to Saturday, December 20th. These covers can be won in a basket raffle system,...

Since 2013 we’ve hosted a Holiday Art Show to benefit the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, where local artists create custom comic book covers that are won in a basket raffle system where one dollar gets you one ticket to the cover of your choice. We’re excited to announce that this year’s theme is “Super Heroes in Cleveland!” Here’s how you participate! Please stop by the shop and pick up a blank comic cover from us. They are free of charge, and you can do two if you like. Please complete the cover with any medium you choose. (This includes digital. Many people now print their art out on cardstock and glue it to the book’s cover.) Give us your interpretation of the theme, any representation of superheroes (and heroines of course) in Cleveland. This can have a holiday component, or not, that’s all up to you as the artist. The artwork must be turned in by Sunday, December 14th at 5pm. Please keep artwork to the front of the cover only, we only have the ability to display them this...

Hello Comic Shop Friends! Here are the details for what’s happening in the shop in December, and some new comics you should pick up to read as you stay warm and cozy at home! Submissions are coming in! I’m working on two of my three ideas and hopefully can get them done this weekend, since covers are due back by 5pm on Sunday the 14th! There’s still time to do one, so stop in and pick up a blank cover. This year’s theme is “Superheroes in Cleveland” and you can interpret that however you like. We will have the art displayed starting Wednesday the 17th through Saturday the 20th, when we’ll pick the basket raffle winners! Every single dollar raised goes directly to the Cleveland Food Bank! Tickets are $1 for one, or six for $5! We do a basket raffle system, so each cover will have a number, and a corresponding bag with that number. Just put your tickets into the numbers you’d like to try to win! The Cleveland Food Bank has the ability to turn one dollar...

It’s December Comic Shop Friends! That means it’s time for our yearly reminder that we would love it if you could come in and clear out your files before the end of the year. We will gladly print out your pull list if you need to make any changes to your file. We’ve had a lot of new files opened this year with the DC Absolute titles taking off, so file space is at a premium for us! We joke about having “SPO shoulder” from the five or six boxes on the side counter every week, and the cubby cubes are packed, so please make a good faith effort to pick up what is in your file this month! We love to sell you comics, but we’d really love you to take them home and read them! That said, anytime you need more time to pick up your comics, just let us know. We will happily hold them longer, as long as we know you’ll be back in to get them. Things happen, we understand, but we just need communication...

Happy Thanksgiving Comic Shop Friends! We have a packed week, so let’s dive in! We will be closed on Thursday the 27th for Thanksgiving. I hope you all get to enjoy a day off work and a day of feasting and relaxation! Our Black Friday Weekend Sale starts Wednesday! You get four days of dollar diving and back issue deals! Starting Wednesday the 26th and going through Sunday the 30th! We’ll have 50% off all back issues, including the wall! The foyer is open and there are one hundred brand new long boxes of dollar stock! You may find some great stuff in there that we don’t have room for in the back issues! Saturday, the 29th, Nate Powell will be in the shop for a free signing! Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing comics as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes the new graphic novel Fall Through and a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, as well as Save It For Later, civil rights icon John Lewis’ March...

Hey there Comic Shop Friends! We’ve got a big week of comics (Batman Deadpool one-shot!) so let’s get to it! Black Friday starts Wednesday the 26th! We’re running our Black Friday Weekend Sale that Wednesday through Sunday the 30th! All back issues will be 50% off! The foyer will be packed with one hundred long boxes of brand-new dollar stock! That’s 100 boxes you haven’t dug through yet! We will be closed Thursday the 27th for Thanksgiving. In conjunction with Genghis Con, we’re hosting indie comic creator Nate Powell for a free signing in the shop! Saturday November 29th from 6pm to 7pm, Nate will be here for an open signing. Haven’t read any of his work? Don’t worry! We’re stocked up on graphic novels! We have a row on the Rec Wall featuring his books, and we’ll have extra on the table too! Sunday the 30th is Cleveland’s small press and indie creator convention, Genghis Con! Ben will be there representing the shop, and getting artists to sign up for our Holiday Art Show. He’ll have some freebies too,...