Carol n John’s 50% off All Back issues including the $1.00 Bins! Also keep an eye out for the ever awesome specially marked 50% Trade boxes! We recently received all DC and Vertigo. (Which is really rare.) “Go to Carol and John’s Summer Sale July 21st through the and 31st!” DOOM DEMANDS IT!
Some of you may have heard that the people at Yelp! (if you haven’t heard of Yelp! please check out the Cleveland Yelp! page Here) have a bit of a club for Elite members where they hold parties, have a good time, and everyone enjoys themselves. Well they chose our shop most recently for their Elite event. The Below is the article found here and some subsequent reviews of the event here! Cleveland Yelpers Assemble! at Carol & John’s Comic Shop Over 50 Elites and guests had a Marvel-ous time this past Thursday at our comic booked themed event,Yelpers Assemble! With the filming of The Avengers in downtown Cleveland sizzling the box office, why not celebrate our comic roots? I mean, we *do* have the Superman House in our own backyard (ahem, bragging rights…) Carol & John’s Comic Shop know what’s up, so they flew in like a superhero and helped us host a victorious Yelp party with superpower panache! Long time yelper, George S, said it best: “I’ve never been to a Yelp Party… now, I’ll try to be a regular. To put it simply, it was so...
Well, with this posting we close down Free Comic Book day 2012. One of the surprise successes of the event was our sketch cover raffle prizes. This was a true testament to the fact that we only put the shell of an event together and it grows organically from there. Cleveland’s Free Comic Book Day is that big because Cleveland helps make it that big. We got 28 submissions from 24 artists in Cleveland who did one of a kind sketch covers for free to support free comic book day. These cover were raffled off post event. You can take a look at them here: 2012 FCBD Sketch Covers While there is a link to each artist’s website with the picture, we would also like to personally thank the following people and provide you with a way to follow there work if possible. These are people who care about art, community, Cleveland and comics; and are people to keep on eye on. I would also like to thank Jim Giar specifically, as with out his orginal work on this project it...
Thanks to all Cleveland artists who helped make Free Comic Book Day 2012 even more awesome by doing original Sketch Covers! I would like to commend these individuals as being true supporters of the comic book community in Cleveland. With all the Avengers mania in town I salute the fact that is all still comes down to one man at a drawing board, Jack Kirby. Some people may forget that but we certainly do not, and we respect the work these people have put into this project. Please check out the link to the gallery below! Nuff Said! 2012 FCBD Cover
You wait for it all year… as you do all of our other cool events (even the ones we just started this year) and now here it is! FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! First off, we’re proud to announce Cleveland Action Brewery’s FCBD 2012 Ale Commemorative Edition! The First 90 people to step up to the bar at the midnight party (of age) will get one. Free! Then you can keep the sweet bottle! We’ll also be selling sweet lithographs that we made up for only 5 bucks! It’s a great way to show support of FCBD and they’re really cool too. Available now! Limited Print run! We’ve recieved confirmation that the 501st and the Rebellion Legion will be making the scene to provide you with sweet photo ops while you wait in line. Check them out at www.501st.com and www.rebellegion.com ! We’ve gotten a good dozen Cleveland Artist to do sketch cover for FCBD! We’ll be hanging them up for viewing for all of FCBD then raffling them off! These artist are true supports of FCBD and we’ll be posting their names and websites...
Just a reminder to even my non comic book friends, one of the last gifts Harvey Pekar left us was this final work on Cleveland. It comes out in Hardcover this Wednesday. We’ll have 50 copies on sale at the shop. I hope to sell them all just to say we got them out there. Worth the trip.
Info on Superman's Cleveland!
