LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY

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

September 11, 2019September 14, 2019 marco

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.

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

August 20, 2019October 21, 2020 marco

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!

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

September 7, 2018September 7, 2018 marco

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.