Local Comic Shop Day® store registration begins. Open to all retailers, free of charge.

Z2 Comics to feature two titles (Tori Amos, Weird Al).

Local Comic Shop Day®, the day that celebrates the independent spirit of local comic book shops, returns for its eighth annual event on Wednesday, November 23rd. Store registration is now open at www.comicspro.org/lcsd2022

Z2 Comics is the First Publisher to announce items for Local Comic Shop day. “We are super excited that Z2 is the first publisher to announce items for Local Comic Shop ay 2022!” said Marco Davanzo, Executive Director of ComicsPRO. “Z2 is the preeminent publisher of musician/band graphic novels. We love their titles because they are well done …. comic fans love them … and they bring a new potential fanbase into the stores.

ComicsPRO recommends all store-front retailers register for Local Comic Shop Day. “Technically, retailers don’t need to register to order the local comic shop day items. ” added Davanzo. “But we recommend that ALL retailers register so that they can be reminded when to order, will get help in marketing, and will be able to get special deals from LCSD partners. Also, customers will be able to find registered retailers easier because stores will on a map on our website. So please register at www.comicspro.org/lcsd2022!”

Z2 will be releasing two graphic novels with covers just for the LCSD and the direct market. (Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes – Jason Levesque cover exclusive and The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic Mark Fredrickson cover exclusive). Both covers will have the LCSD logo on the back and retailers can order them through Diamond comics, Simon and Schuster, or directly through Z2 Comics via their Z2 Wholesale site. (https://z2-retail-wholesale.myshopify.com/)

Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes is the official graphic novel celebrating 30 years of Tori Amos’s breakout album: Little Earthquakes. This graphic novel features 24 stories inspired by the 12 songs on the album, as well as the 12 ‘B-sides’ that accompanied the album and its associated singles. With star writers such as Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood being assembled by Z2 editor Rantz Hoseley, who previously edited the multi-award-winning Comic Book Tattoo, and who painted the cover for her recent Christmastide EP

The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic features top cartoonists expressing Al’s “Yankovisions” visually within this book’s pages. The great Al-merican songbook features 20+ classic songs interpreted by such artists as Bill Plympton, Aaron Augenblick, Peter Bagge, Steve Chanks, Danny Hellman, Felipe Sobreiro, Gideon Kendall, Michael Kupperman, Wes Hargis, and many more! Foreword by legendary comic Emo Philips with an accompanying illustration by master MAD alumnus Sam Viviano

Publishers are invited to participate in Local Comic Shop Day®, by putting the LCSD logo on items coming out on November 23. If you’d like to participate, please contact marco@comicspro.org.

ABOUT LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY®— Local Comic Shop Day® is conceived and implemented by ComicsPRO retailers to put the focus on locally owned independent comic book specialty stores— where Pop Culture begins!

ABOUT ComicsPRO— ComicsPRO is the comics’ industry’s trade organization dedicated to the progress of direct market comic book retailers. The goals of ComicsPRO are to help direct market retailers speak with a single, strong voice on important industry issues, to provide educational and mentoring opportunities to current and future retailers, and to offer opportunities for retailers to reduce fixed costs. For more information about ComicsPRO, please visit www.comicspro.org.

ABOUT Z2 COMICS – Z2 COMICS is the world’s leading publisher of Pop-culture, music and celebrity-based graphic novels & collectibles. Z2 is the home to such artists as Gorillaz, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Machine Gun Kelly, Motley Crue, Public Enemy and Joan Jett. Retailers who are interested in ordering Z2 Comics can order through diamond comics distribution, Simon and Schuster, or directly through Z2 via their Z2 Wholesale site. (https://z2-retail-wholesale.myshopify.com)

 

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LOCAL COMIC SHOP DECEMBER!

November 24th, is Local Comic Shop Day® – the Greatest Wednesday of the year.
Please visit your local comic shop!
And please check in with your local comic shop every Wednesday in December!
Because of shipping delays, some stores are going to be celebrating Local Comic Shop Day® on other days in December. Plus most stores are going to be hosting special sales …. creators … and other types of celebrations. Check in with your local comic shop to see what’s going on.

IN DECEMBER, POP CULTURE STARTS AT THE LOCAL COMIC SHOP! It’s LOCAL COMIC SHOP DECEMBER!

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Items for sale – Local Comic Shop Day® – November 24th

There are 14 items being released for 2021 Local Comic Shop Day®.

LCSD 2021 METALLICA 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION Acme Ink
LCSD 2021 REGARDING MATTER OF OSWALDS BODY #1 (OF 5) Boom! Studios
LCSD 2021 HOUSE OF SLAUGHTER #1 2ND PTG CARDSTOCK Boom! Studios
LCSD 2021 MAGIC MASTER OF METAL #1 CARDSTOCK GORHAM VARIANT Boom! Studios
LCSD 2021 JOY OPERATIONS #1 (OF 5) Dark Horse Comics
LCSD 2021 DETECTIVE COMICS #1045 SILVER FOIL CARD STOCK VARIANT DC Comics
LCSD 2021 DC VS VAMPIRES #2 (OF 12) SILVER FOIL CARD STOCK VARIANT DC Comics
LCSD 2021 TASK FORCE Z #2 SILVER FOIL CARD STOCK VARIANT DC Comics
LCSD 2021 GRRL SCOUTS STONE GHOST #1 (OF 6) CVR C Image Comics
LCSD 2021 FRIDAY #1 Image Comics
LCSD 2021 WALKING DEAD DLX #27 CVR G ADLARD FOIL VARIANT Image comics
LCSD 2021 VENOM #2 JONBOY MEYERS VARIANT Marvel Comics
LCSD 2021 RADIO APOCALYPSE #1 DLX FOIL FULL ART VARIANT Vault Comics
LCSD 2021 CHUCK D PRESENTS: APOCALYPSE 91 #0 REVOLUTION NEVER SLEEPS Z2 Comics
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LCSD 2021 DC VS VAMPIRES #2 (OF 12) SILVER FOIL CARD STOCK VARIANT

DC COMICS’

(W) James Tynion IV, Matthew Rosenberg
(A) Otto Schmidt
(CA) Francesco Mattina
The war for the very survival of the human race has begun! A mysterious new vampire lord has already put a plan in motion to conquer the Earth, and the first step is—destroy the Justice League! But the World’s Greatest Detective might be Earth’s last hope, and it’s time for the Bat-Family to hunt!

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LCSD 2021 TASK FORCE Z #2 SILVER FOIL CARD STOCK VARIANT

DC COMICS

(W) Matthew Rosenberg
(A/CA) Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira

After Task Force Z’s first bloodbath—err, sorry, first mission—goes awry, Red Hood must rethink how to lead a team of unstable monsters against some of the most organized ranks of Lazarus resin dealers in the world. To manage this unruly bunch, Jason Todd is going to need a deputy in the field whom he can trust to be his eyes and ears…but on this team, such an ask isn’t limited to the living. A ghost from Suicide Squad past returns in the cameo no one will see coming (that’s a clue)! Plus: Bane’s rampage, the Resurrection Twins get carried away, and more clues to the secret identity of the team’s benefactor!

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LCSD 2021 DETECTIVE COMICS #1045 SILVER FOIL CARD STOCK VARIANT

DC COMICS

(W) Mariko Tamaki, Stephanie Phillips
(A) Dan Mora, David Lapham
(CA) Lee Bermejo

SILVER FOIL CARDSTOCK!

Batman and Mayor Nakano have freed themselves from the Vile parasite-infected sewers of Gotham City…only to find the nightmare has risen higher than they had imagined! With the city streets being overtaken by larger, (somehow even more) horrific creatures, these two enemies must put aside their differences and save the city—while there’s still time! This skin-crawling, heart-pounding, terror-inducing installment of “Fear State” will change the nature of the Dark Knight and Mayor Nakano forever, and cast an eerie shadow over the next major Bat-event to come… Then, in “Foundations” part two, Batman runs into an unlikely ally in his investigation at the Arkham Tower construction site, and believe us, Harley Quinn has a lot to say about all this!

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LCSD RADIO APOCALYPSE #1 DLX FOIL FULL ART

VAULT COMICS

(W) Ram V.
(A/CA) Anand Rk

Long after the rock out of space struck the world and turned it all to dust, in Bakerstown stands the last Radio Station on the planet. Radio Apocalypse broadcasting into the unknown, a beacon in the dark for those who wander the lost places. Now change is coming to Bakerstown. Among the refugees flocking into an already precarious settlement, an orphan boy Rion, caught in an indiscretion, will twine his fate with the Radio Station. And in doing so, begin this mixtape of love and heartbreak and interminable hope — this soundtrack to the end of the world.

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LCSD 2021 GRRL SCOUTS STONE GHOST #1 (OF 6) CVR C

IMAGE COMICS

(W/A/CA) Jim Mahfood

Superstar artist and comics-makin’ weirdo JIM MAHFOOD returns to his creator-owned GRRL SCOUTS universe for a brand-new six-issue miniseries! Join DIO, TURTLENECK JONES, and GORDI as they face off against the sinister and unpredictable evil of THE TEETH! Hilarious, over-the-top, psychedelic adventure will ensue, you guys! Packed from cover to cover (no ads!) with completely unique and eye-poppin’ MAHFOOD art, including bonus comics and behind-the-scenes fun! Plus, an absolutely stunning variant cover from our good friend PEACH MOMOKO! Feel the Funk!

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LCSD 2021 FRIDAY #1

IMAGE COMICS

(W) Ed Brubaker
(A) Marcos Martin, Muntsa Vicente
(CA) Marcos Martin

This LCSD release presents the first issue of the genre-defying, post-YA masterpiece from award-winning creators ED BRUBAKER (RECKLESS, FRIEND OF THE DEVIL, PULP, KILL OR BE KILLED) and MARCOS MARTIN (THE PRIVATE EYE, Daredevil).

Friday Fitzhugh spent her childhood solving crimes and digging up occult secrets with her best friend Lancelot Jones, the smartest boy in the world. But that was the past. Now she’s in college, starting a new life on her own – or so she thought. When Friday comes home for the holidays, she’s immediately pulled back into Lance’s orbit and finds that something very strange and dangerous is happening in their little New England town…

This is literally the Christmas vacation from Hell, and they may not survive to see the New Year.

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