First off, thanks to all for a very successful Holiday Art Show Fundraiser! We had one hundred art submissions that you can view here in an online gallery: We are still collecting food and money so we’ll be posting the results on December 24th, along with our usual round of thank you’s. Stop by the shop before Christmas and buy some books from our dollar stock! All proceeds go to the Cleveland Food Bank! We have decided to have a Last Minute Holiday Shopping Sale on Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th, which will be an extension of last weekend’s sale. THE INTERNET CANNOT HELP YOU NOW! THE POSTAL SERVICE IS TOO BACKED UP! BRICK AND MORTAR SHOPS TO THE RESCUE!  We know you procrastinators have no choice, but we still want to give you another good reason to spend your last minute dollars in our shop! So… 50% off ALL Back Issues 20% of ALL Graphic Novels 20% of ALL Action Figures, Statues and Pop Funs. 10% off EVERYTHING ELSE in the shop. We are also still giving away copies of this...

Alright! Here’s the complete info on our annual Holiday Party / Art Show / Sale / Fundraiser to benefit the Cleveland Food Bank! THE BASICS On Saturday December 16th from 10am to 7pm we host an art show featuring local artists doing custom covers to benefit the Cleveland Food Bank. These covers can be won in a basket raffle system where one food item or dollar gets you one ticket.  You get to pick where your tickets go so you can win a cover you really like! This years theme is “The Holiday Season” so expect covers celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, etc… This year it looks like we will have a record number of covers! Thank you Cleveland! Here’s a few: Art by Sequoia Bostick. Art by Len Peralta We will then shut down the store for an hour at 7pm only to reopen at 8pm for our Annual Holiday Customer Appreciation Party! The party last till around 11pm and features snacks, beverages and holiday cheer! Winners of the basket raffle are drawn promptly at 10:30pm and if you win...

It’s time for our annual Holiday Party / Art Show / Sale / Fundraiser to benefit the Cleveland Food Bank! On Saturday December 16th from 10am to 7pm we host an art show featuring local artists doing 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 one ticket.  You get to pick where your tickets go so you can win a cover you really like! This years theme is “The Holiday Season” so expect covers celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and maybe even Wookiee Life Day. Art by Ryan Finley  We then shut down the store for an hour at 7pm only to reopen at 8pm for our Annual Holiday Customer Appreciation Party! The party last till around 11pm and features snacks and beverages, and holiday cheer! Winners of the basket raffle are drawn promptly at 10:30pm, and if you win you can take your piece of artwork home with you! You can check out some of the previous art galleries here: 2016  –  2015  –  2014  –  2013 All the money collected during the...

Carol and John’s Comic Shop is looking for local artists who would like to contribute a sketch cover to our 5th Annual Holiday Art Show to benefit the Cleveland Food Bank.  ARTISTS WANTED It’s easy! Are you a local artist who would like to turn your talents into food for those in need during the holiday season? Stop by the shop and pick up a free blank sketch cover. (or two.) Some are completely blank and some have just a logo to get you started.  This year’s theme is “The Holiday Season” which can mean Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Wookie Life Day, whatever. Take that idea and incorporate a comic book element into it, either super hero’s or indie comic characters, again whatever. We’re pretty liberal with the theme.  Create a custom cover, sticking to the front of the book for display purposes.  Turn the book into the comic shop by Thursday, December 14th at 8pm.   Be sure to include you name, URL, and email contact on the submission form you will be given with the cover. You can also write this information...

We will be closed on Thanksgiving Day so our staff can enjoy the holidays with their families. We will reopen on Friday for a weekend long sale, and our longest running shop event, our Anti Black Friday Sale!   On Friday November 24th from 7pm to midnight we’ll be having our annual (anti) Black Friday Sale. There will also be and ongoing sale throughout the weekend, but nothing as massive as 7pm to midnight.  For this sale we open up our back room and the foyer with over 70,000 comic books at $1.00 each. (Buy 100 or more and the price drops to .50 cents each) This year we will have the books in some semblance of an order to make your shopping easier, with books divided into Marvel, DC, Small Press and DC New 52. There’s even stuff form new collections we’ve purchased that we haven’t even cherry picked yet.  Also that night: 20% off all Graphic Novels and Hardcovers 50% off all Back Issues 20% off the New Comic Wall 20% off Statues and Action Figures and Pop Fun’s Discount Graphic Novel Bins will...

t’s been awhile since we’ve done an early release event, but if one book ever justified it, it’s Doomsday Clock #1, featuring the first real merger of the DC and Watchman Universes! DOOMSDAY CLOCK EARLY RELEASE DC is allowing us to sell Doomsday Clock #1 (As well as all new DC releases) at 11:57pm on Tuesday (11-21-2017) night, to coincide with the time on the Doomsday Clock. We’ll be selling four different covers including one exclusive to the early release.  The Lenticular cover is my favorite, featuring DC’s Trinity blended into Rorschach’s mask. The standard edition hints at the fact that the Rorschach journal really did get out.  We also have a great Gary Frank variant, featuring key players Superman and Doctor Manhattan.   The 11:57 variant will only be available at the early release event and featured a black and white version of the Gary Frank variant cover.  The first 25 people in line will also receive a FREE early release lithograph that looks like the 11:57 variant. We will also have these cool Doomsday Clock pins, that we can give free with every copy you buy of the book.  Considering how iconic...