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Holiday Party / Art Show / Fundraiser / and Sale CNJ Comics

Holiday Party / Art Show / Fundraiser / and Sale CNJ Comics

Here’s all the info on this years’ annual Holiday Party / Art Show / Sale / Fundraiser to benefit the Cleveland Food Bank! Art and Fundraiser On Saturday, December 21st from 10 am to 7 pm we’ll be hosting an art show featuring local artists who created custom covers to benefit the Cleveland Food Bank. These covers can be won in a basket raffle system where one food item or one dollar gets you a ticket. You pick which cover your ticket goes to so you can win a one you really like. This year’s art show theme is a comic book character / Christmas movie mashup, which we’ve been having a lot of fun with. Here are some of the covers from previous years, all based on Uncle Eddie from Christmas Vacation: By Keith Allen By Craig Worrell By Ryan Finley And here are some of our fantastic artists: We will shut down the store at 7 PM only to reopen at 8 PM for our annual Holiday Customer Appreciation Party! The party lasts till around 11 PM and...

Black Friday Event at CNJComics

Black Friday Event at CNJComics

You’ve likely gotten our previous emails, so we’re just going to do a quick recap! All weekend long, that is, Friday Saturday and Sunday, you can enjoy: 50% off all back issues 80,000 comics at $1.00 each in our foyer, .50 each for 100 or more. 10% off EVERYTHING in the shop! Our big Black Friday Event is actually on Friday evening from 7pm to midnight where you can enjoy all of the above but you can take 20% of EVERYTHING in the shop! The big part of Friday Night and what makes it an event are the raffles! Every half hour starting at 7:30 we raffle off five graphic novels as well as one Mega Prize! (It’s a pool off 50 hand picked graphic novels and you get to pick one when you when!) You get one ticket for every ten dollar you spend starting at 7 pm. These tickets stay in all night long and you have to be present to win! Mega Prizes Include: A full set of Batman Scott Snyder Graphic Novels Volume 1-10! Two Marvels...

Artists Wanted at CNJComics

Artists Wanted at CNJComics

Hello Creative Friends of Carol & Johns Comic Shop! We’ve come to that time of year again where caring and community count for everything. We mean the holiday season in general, but more specifically the Carol and John’s Holiday Party and Charity Art Show! We’re reaching out to you to provide all of the pertinent information and solicit your involvement in this tried-and-true annual event celebrating all forms of giving and good cheer. Artists Wanted As always Carol and Johns will be directing all charitable donations to The Greater Cleveland Food Bank, with their uncanny ability to turn one dollar into four full meals. Over the past few years our Holiday Party and Art Show has helped to create over 60,000 meals for those in need during this important time of year. We would love for YOU to be a part of creating those meals by submitting artwork to our Charity Art Show! The more artwork we collect the more interest generated, and the more meals we can provide. Here’s how it works: Just stop by the shop and pick...

Local Comic Shop Day and Featured New Releases at CNJComics

Local Comic Shop Day and Featured New Releases at CNJComics

We’ve got some exciting new releases this Wednesday, and Saturday is Local Comic Shop Day, a day to celebrate your LCS with some exclusive items you can only get in brick and mortar independently owned comic shops! Here’s the featured new releases coming out this Wednesday, November 20th, 2019! First up is the finale to the incredibly popular Absolute Carnage series! It’s Carnage Vs Venom to the Death! Lots of variants and if you can wait till Saturday there’s even a cover priced LCSD variant! Deadpool gets a new ongoing series written by Kelly Thompson with trippy art by Chris Bachelo! If you’ve been reading comics for a (long) while, you may have heard about Denny O’Neil and Deny’s Cowan’s classic Question run. It’s a hidden gem, with the background of Hub City being as important to the character as Gotham and Metropolis is to those other two guys. He starts the series off as a loser and basically fails at his entire mission during the run. Here’s an article I found. This week the Question returns in an over...

Black Friday, Local Comic Shop Day and Small Business Saturday at CNJComics

Black Friday, Local Comic Shop Day and Small Business Saturday at CNJComics

It’s that time of year again! If you’re new to the culture of the shop, our Black Friday event is our longest-running event, going on for over 20 years now. We host this event from 7 pm to midnight on Friday, so our staff can be with their families and you can get any other shopping chores out of the way before hanging out with us. It’s a really fun social event too, and a fun tradition for a lot of our customers. It’s more about enjoying the hobby than a mad consumer battle. It’s our biggest sale of the year too, and one of only two times that we pull all the books out of our backroom and storage locker and make them $1.00 each. (50 cents each for 100 or more!) We’ve got lots of stuff that’s never been picked through before, as we’ve been buying up collections left and right lately. It’s about 75,000 books. They’re in pretty good order too, so get your list together! Also that night, from 7 pm to midnight: 50% off all...

Featured New Releases for 11-6-2019 at CNJComics

Featured New Releases for 11-6-2019 at CNJComics

I just got back from out of town, so here’s a real quick featured release email! Here’s the featured new releases for Wednesday, November 6th, 2019! Marvel Titles Two new X-Titles this week! So far X-Men #1 lightened the mood and was a fun read, Marauders #1 was really great and Excalibur #1 was just okay. This week the original New Mutants return with a few friends and a story co-written by Hickman himself. Rod Reis’ art is pretty great too! X-Force will by the covert team of Krakoa, with an intelligence and a black ops team lead by Wolverine. DC Titles The reason Bendis came over to DC in the first place was to write Legion of Superheroes, and the new ongoing is here! “Small” Press Titles Image has been hyping up Scott Snyder and Charles Soule’s new book for a bit now. Undiscovered Country hits the table this week! “In this special oversized first issue, readers will journey into the near-future and an unknown nation that was once the United States of America-a land that’s become shrouded in...