LCSD 2019 News: Umbrella Academy with Sienkiewicz cover

For Local Comic Shop Day 2019, Dark Horse Comics will be releasing: Hazel and Cha Cha Save Christmas: Tales from the Umbrella Academy LCSD Cover. This prized limited, exclusive edition will have a cover by fan-favorite artist Bill Sienkiewicz.

“We are expecting this to fly off the shelves,” said Marco Davanzo, Executive Director of ComicsPro. “Umbrella Academy graphic novels were some of the hottest selling titles this year due to the success of the Netflix series. And Bill Sienkiewicz is one of the most respected and collected comic artists out there.”

JUL199115  LCSD 2019 HAZEL & CHA CHA SAVE CHRISTMAS TALES UMBRELLA ACADEMY

DARK HORSE COMICS(W) Gerard Way, Scott Allie (A) Tommy Lee Edwards (CA) Bill Sienkiewicz Hazel and Cha Cha-the bizarre assassins who first appear in Umbrella Academy: Dallas and blew audiences away in the Netflix series-track down a rogue time agent and cross paths with a plot to discredit Christmas!

o The first Umbrella Academy spinoff!

Local Comic Shop Day is only open to comic store-front retailers.
If you’d like to register for Local Comic Shop Day, please register here: www.comicspro.org/lcsd2019

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LCSD 2019 News: Vault goes for the Gold with Savage Shores

Vault Comics will be releasing a limited, exclusive Gold Edition of These Savage Shores – with a cover printed with special gold ink.

“Ever since These Savage Shores came out in comic form last year, fans have been clamoring for a graphic novel.” said Marco Davanzo, Executive Director of ComicsPro. “It was a hot title last year, and we expect that fans will love the special gold cover treatment. It will be a prized book for many fans to keep on their bookshelves. I know I need one!”

These Savage Shores LCSD Gold Edition TPB

Author(s):  Ram V. Artist(s):  Sumit Kumar & Vittorio Astone
Cover Artist(s): Sumit Kumar
Letters:  Aditya Bidikar 

Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, The East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766. An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land. But he will soon find that the ground along the Indus is an ancient one with daemons and legends far older than himself.

Along These Savage Shores, where the days are scorched and the nights are full of teeth.

Local Comic Shop Day is only open to comic store-front retailers.
If you’d like to register for Local Comic Shop Day, please register here: www.comicspro.org/lcsd2019

full of teeth.

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Local Comic Shop Day® is on November 23, 2019. Find a participating store!

Local Comic Shop Day®, the day celebrating the independent spirit of local comic book specialty shops, returns for its fifth annual event Saturday, November 23, 2019.

A map to find the closes participating store can be found here. Each of the 614 stores participating is celebrating Local Comic Shop Day® differently, so plan to visit more than one store.

Exclusive Items will be available. Not all items will be available at each store.

Local Comic Shop Day® is a five-year old event conceived and implemented by ComicsPRO comic book specialty retailers to call attention to locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, celebrating their vital role in being the primary fire-starters of pop culture.   Pop Culture begins in your Local Comic Shop!

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Dark Horse to offer LCSD exclusive cover of William Gibson’s Alien 3 – The Unproduced Screenplay

The first official project to be announced for Local Comic Shop Day® 2018, is Dark Horse’s LCSD exclusive cover of William Gibson’s Alien 3 – The Unproduced Screenplay,

This is the official adaptation of the original screenplay for Alien 3, written by William Gibson, the award-winning science fiction author of the cyberpunk cult classic Neuromancer. You’ll see familiar characters and places-but not all is the same in this horrifying Cold War thriller!After the deadly events of the film Aliens, the spaceship Sulaco carrying the sleeping bodies of Ripley, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop are intercepted by the Union of Progressive Peoples. What the U.P.P forces don’t expect is another deadly passenger that is about to unleash chaos between two governmental titans intent on developing the ultimate cold war weapon of mass destruction.

o Based on the original screenplay by Neuromancer’s William Gibson!

o Adaptation and art by Johnnie Christmas-co-creator of Margaret Atwood’s Angel Catbird and creator of Image Comics’ Firebug.

o Featuring some of the most famous characters in the Alien film canon: Hicks, Bishop, Newt, and Ripley.

 If you’d like to buy this comic, it will be on sale at your participating Local Comic Shop on Local Comic Shop Day®, November 17, 2018.

Tell your local comics retailer you want them to be a part of Local Comic Shop Day®
Have them sign up here:  www.comicspro.org/lcsd2018

 

Deadline to sign up is September 14th.

Local Comic Shop Day® calls attention to locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, celebrating their vital role in being the primary fire-starters of pop culture.   Each comic shop will mark the Local Comic Shop Day® occasion in its own unique way.    With exclusive, unique and limited items created just for the event on Saturday November 17, LCSD is a great time to pop into your Local Comic Shop to begin your holiday gift buying.

 

 

 

 

 

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Local Comic Shop Day is on November 17th, 2018

Local Comic Shop Day®, the day celebrating the independent spirit of local comic book specialty shops, returns for its fourth annual event Saturday, November 17, 2018.

Here is a list of Participating Stores.  Each store is celebrating Local Comic Shop Day® differently, so plan to visit more than one store.

Exclusive Items will be available.   Not all items will be available at each store.

Local Comic Shop Day® is a four-year old event conceived and implemented by ComicsPRO comic book specialty retailers to call attention to locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, celebrating their vital role in being the primary fire-starters of pop culture.   Pop Culture begins in your Local Comic Shop!

 

 

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ON SALE – SATURDAY!

Check out this cool slideshow that has all the items on sale for LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY!
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH.

 

LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY 2017

Check out all the cool stuff coming out this SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH.LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY 2017.

Posted by Local Comic Shop Day on Friday, November 17, 2017

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21 Items to be released for Local Comic Shop Day® 2017.

Here are the 21 items that are being released on Local Comic Shop Day® 2017!
Not all items will be at all participating stores!  You might want to visit multiple stores in your local area to get some limited and hard to find items.

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New Local Comic Shop Day Exclusive! Justice League Pins from Fansets

To celebrate the Justice League movie which comes out on November 17th, DC and Warner Brothers announced that November 18th – Local Comic Shop Day® – will also be Justice League Day!

To celebrate the day, Fansets is offering Local Comic Shop Day® stores in the United States an exclusive sales window on their Justice League pins.  (Until December 31, 2017).  So the only place to get these pins during the 2017 holiday season will be at participating Local Comic Shop Day® retailers!

Many participating Local Comic Shop Day® stores will also have free Justice League temporary tatoos and comic books to hand out.

Note:  Not every item will be offered at every store.  Plan on visiting several stores in the area.

 

 

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New LCSD item! ComixTribe BLACK BAG includes sold out Sink #1 and #2.

 

  • Two weeks ago, Sink #1 sold out at comic book stores wordwide.
  • For Local Comic Shop Day®, ComixTribe is offering a BLACK BAG special which includes LIMITED EDITION variants of the first two issues as well as one of eleven inserted mystery OXYMORON Volume 1 Hardcovers, each a rare limited edition print run.
  • The BLACK BAG also includes a randomly inserted hard-to-find ComixTribe single issue variant, and a downloadable SINK #1 & 2 Digital Audio Bundle, featuring a soundtrack to accompany your reading of SINK #1 & 2, plus creator commentary on both issues by writer John Lees & artist Alex Cormack
  • SRP of a black bag is $29.99. Only 900 units made.
  • Here’s an article about Sink #1 from Wonder Alliance.com.
  • Killer clowns in a blue van, shovel-wielding vigilantes, and the last bus you’d ever want to ride… You must be in Sinkhill.   A forgotten East End district of a warped funhouse mirror vision of Glasgow, Scotland, Sinkhill is a hive of crooks, deviants and killers, and ordinary folk unfortunate enough to live among them. SINK is a vicious new crime series from the creative team behind OXYMORON: THE LOVELIEST NIGHTMARE.

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