Cosmic Calendar/Poster Celebrates the King of Comics, Jack Kirby!

Flying Colors exclusive 2017 calendar/poster is now available! 

FREE while the supply lasts--- only at Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff!
This 11" x 34" calendar/poster, the 11th in our annual series, is a tribute to the late great Jack Kirby, The King of Comics, with 2017 being the centennial celebration of his birth. 


This poster--and all our posters in this series--- was designed by cartoonist Jeff Bonivert!
Stop by and see us any day of the week from 11AM-7PM at 2980 Treat Blvd in Concord. 

We've Got Your Cool and Cosmic Stuff Right Here in Flying Colors!

Marvelous Deals this Thanksgiving Weekend!

Thanksgiving Weekend Specials! For more, please hit this link to see our latest newsletter with all the deals!

Flying Colors 2017 Poster/Calendar Debuts Friday Nov 25 at 11AM

Thanksgiving Week at Flying Colors

Thank you all for making it to our Local Comic Shop Day event with artist Darick Robertson last Saturday. Darick was kind enough to sign some extra copies of HARBINGER RENEGADES #1 that are available at Flying Colors at cover price.

Flying Colors still has some of the cool Local Comic Shop Day exclusive releases, so please hurry in soon for the best selection!

Coming up this week:
Wednesday November 23 is New Releases Day. Click HERE for a look at this week's New Releases!

Thursday November 24 is Thanksgiving. We hope you'll take the day off for family, friends and good food like we will. Fyying Colors will be CLOSED on Thanksgiving Day.

Friday November 25 has the ominous moniker of "Black Friday." Flying Colors will be open from 11AM-7PM with some cool deals. Low stress shopping and there's usually plenty of easy parking around here...and massive amounts of cool stuff inside Flying Colors!
Hint: If you are not yet signed up for our email list, look to the left column here for a quick and easy way to sign up. (Please note: We do not send many emails, so we will not fill up you in-box with unwanted, unnecessary stuff.)

Saturday November 26 is Small Business Saturday. Please support your favorite locally owned independent businesses! In return, we'll continue to deliver you honest value, friendly service, some cool deals... and the area's best selection of comics & other cool stuff!

See you soon...in Flying Colors!

Meet artist Darick Robertson on Local Comic Shop Day Nov 19

Please join us Saturday November 19 at Flying Colors Comics for the 2nd Annual LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY! Our Special Guest will be artist DARICK ROBERTSON. He'll be here promoting his new series HARBINGER RENEGADES from Valiant Comics.

Darick Robertson continues to have success in a long and illustrious career. He has worked with top publishers in comics plying his art skills on many of top characters, including Wolverine, Deadpool, Nick Fury, Punisher, Justice League, New Warriors and many more.

Darick is also the co-creator of Transmetropolitan with writer Warren Ellis and The Boys with writer Garth Ennis.

It's a great day for comics fans, with exclusive items available only (or available first) on LCSD. Visit LocalComicShopDay.com for info about the cool items we'll have for you.

Be sure to "like" us on Facebook and visit our event page for current info and chatter about LCSD.

Look to the cosmos!

One thing we can all agree on...

Find what's being released Wednesday November 9 right HERE!

See you soon... in Flying Colors!

Halloween Comic-Fest: Saturday October 29 at Flying Colors!

Event info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1061760590571802/

And Now a Word from Captain Four Color!

Until you're a comics fan, you'll never know how every Wednesday is a kind of holiday! 

(Panels from Savage Dragon #165 by Erik Larsen, featuring Flying Colors own Captain Four Color. Find this story and many other in Savage Dragon Archives Volume Seven, hitting comic shops everywhere on October 12.)

New this Week at Flying Colors: http://bit.ly/1sOtkJS 

FlyCo's 28th!

No big celebrations for this anniversary of the opening of Flying Colors. Although when this day comes around, I do reflect on all that it takes to keep this business healthy, profitable and engaging for our wonderful FlyCo Faithful.

When I made the decision to get out of radio and leave KJOY, I had no idea if the move to comics retail would last a year or two, let alone 28. But with the help of so many people, here we are.

A few people who really deserve special attention for really being there for me, especially in those early, very tenuous days...

* My dad, the late great Joe Field, gave me a lot of his time and energy in helping us find the right spot to lease. We drove all over central Contra Costa, looking at commercial spaces, occasionally stopping for hot dogs.

* My father in law, Wayne H. "Bud" Fisher. Though the signs of early on-set Alzheimers were just beginning to emerge in him, he was still obviously such a business genius. He helped me make some very valuable connections to get this business off on the right foot.

* My three daughters, Michelle, Jenny and Cynthia ("Cindy"). Back then, comic shops were often clubhouse businesses for guys who didn't care much about moving forward and certainly didn't care about having comics reach much wider audiences (like the female 50%+ of the population!). My daughters were my marketing research team. Even though they were all only between 4-8 years old, their insights into the other shops we visited were invaluable. We always wanted Flying Colors to be the "one comic shop for the whole family" and their enthusiasm helped us get there. All three worked at Flying Colors over the years in some capacity---and all still make appearances at special events here, as their busy schedules allow.

* Most importantly, I want to thank my sensational wife Libby. Wow! She was the leader of our marketing research team. She trusted me with this crazy idea. In those first five years, when I commuted six days a week from Stockton to Concord, she in essence became a single parent (I have lots of regrets about that, believe me). She held us all together, working hard, praying harder, and always being a bright light, a truly positive partner who continues to make Flying Colors better with her organization, her Bud Fisher-like CEO-ness...and her sweet presence in the lives of so many FlyCo peeps, especially our staff and customers.

Bottom line, I really had no idea what I was doing in those early days. If not for my great FlyCo Retailing Brigade (our 50+ staff members over the years, starting with Anne, Mark, Teri, Tom, Steve, Sam, Gavin... all the way through to our current staff Michael, Martin, Casey, Anna and Eryn), Flying Colors wouldn't be what it is today.

Years ago, I asked a retailing mentor of mine, the late John Barrett, how to find good staff for my shop. He said in a very Zen-like way "Good people find good people. So be a good person and other good people will find their way to you." Thank you all for being the good people you are!!

I know there are many others to thank for their contributions to Flying Colors, but I'm seriously doubting anyone actually read this far. So whether you are family, staff, friends and/or customers or suppliers, please accept my humble thanks for being part of the 28 years success story of Flying Colors!

Love, Peace & Cool Comics!

--- Joe