Free Comic Book Day at Flying Colors is Saturday May 5

Make Your Plans for Free Comic Book Day @ Flying Colors!

Flying Colors Voted #1 Comic Shop in Bay Area!

New @ Flying Colors!

 

Save this Date! 25 Days Until FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2012! 

 

Also, each week over on our Flying Colors Facebook page, we post a list of
all the New & Cool stuff, including comics, books, toys, etc. that are first available on our New Releases Day, (which is every Wednesday).

If you haven't participated on our Facebook page, please accept this invitation to hit the 'like' button and join the discussions there! 

Flying Colors Open Easter Sunday from Noon-5PM

Wednesday April 4: Avengers vs X-Men Launch Party!

What: It's the launch of the epic battle series of 2012---  AVENGERS VS X-MEN!
Where: At Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff, natch!
When: Wednesday April 4 @ 11am. Be here for the buzz of New Releases' Day!
Who: YOU and all your friends are invited!

You may have read online that a number of comic shops in other areas are doing their parties on Tuesday night, April 3. Given that we would be restrained from selling any of the other great comics being released this week, we made the decision to have our party for Avengers vs X-Men on Wednesday April 4, which, as all comics' fans know is the New Releases' Day for comics.

So not only will you be able to jump on the massive Avengers vs X-Men event, but you'll also be able to see the full line of new comics & other cool stuff being released this week.

We will be taking an unusual "vote" --- choose an Avengers' cookie or choose an X-Men cookie and yur vote will be recorded for which team you most want to win this epic battle! Be here early, we don't know how long the custom cookies will last!

Sign up to get the entire series and you'll get a FREE X-Men vs Avengers lithograph.

Vote Now in ABC-7's Bay Area A-List!

ABC-7's Bay Area A-List is a way for you to show love to your favorite businesses--- hopefully, that means Flying Colors Comics!

Voting ends on Friday March 30, so head on over to vote for your favorite businesses. This is a direct link to take you to the page to vote for Flying Colors.

If by chance Flying Colors is not your favorite Bay Area comic book store, by all means vote for your favorite!  

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

Blue Star Moms team with Flying Colors Comics to get comics to our super-heroes overseas

Flying Colors Comics is honored to have donated thousands of comic books to go into "care packages," put together with lots of love by the Blue Star Moms Chapter 101 in Danville CA, going to service members in Afghanistan, Iraq and other outposts the world over.

The whole team here at Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff is thrilled to get emails like this one from Lt John Farr aboard the USS Pearl Harbor.

Dear Comic Aficionados,

We have received a number of packages from Blue Star Moms in San Ramon, CA and each of them had at least one comic book. Thank you for sending them along, they are much appreciated, and they make the rounds rather quickly. It’s always a treat to get care packages from home, and the ones from supporters like yourselves and Blue Star Moms mean so much because you’re sending cool stuff to people you’ve never met.

A little about us – we’re aboard the USS Pearl Harbor just past the halfway point of our seven month deployment to the Persian Gulf. We are a landing dock ship which basically means that we carry a bunch of Marines and their very cool gear, wherever they are needed. We have a well deck from which we can launch or receive LCACs (landing craft air cushion), AAAVs (amphibious assault vehicle), and LCUs (landing craft utility – like the ones in Saving Private Ryan on D-Day). It’s pretty cool when we launch or recover a craft because we fill our well deck with sea water – it’s a controlled partial sinking, with style!

We have hundreds of Sailors and Marines on board and we are very busy doing ship stuff – maintenance, preservation, drills, etc. But our embarked Marines have more time on their hands than we Sailors do and occasionally it’s difficult for them to find things to fill the time. When we do get free time, like a ‘holiday routine’ on Saturdays, we rest as much as we can – and relax, with movies, books, and of course, comics! 

Please continue sending comics when you can, it does make a difference to our deployed troops. When I was in Afghanistan in 2010, I remember getting packages from Blue Star Moms with comics, and if I remember correctly, they were from Flying Colors Comics as well. Thanks again for taking the time and effort to brighten the day of a deployed American warrior!

Sincerely,

LT John Tarr

United States Navy

Command Chaplain

USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52)

Thank you so much for this, Chaplain John! We're happy to know the comics we send overseas are well-received and give a moment's respite to those doing difficult jobs with honor and dignity!

Peace!

Joe "FlyCoJoe" Field

Rest in Peace, Jean "Moebius" Giraud

Highly influential French artist Jean Moebius" Giraud passed away today in Paris.

I'll let others wax rhapsodic about the mastery of his art in comics ("The Airtight Garage", "Arzach", "The Incal", "Silver Surfer: Parable", "Blueberry", etc.,  and and his design work in film ("Alien", "Tron"., "Willow", among others). 

Instead, I'll share a couple of visuals. Two photos from WonderCon 1999... and the original sketch I was given by him at the same event.

Flying Colors Comics at the Concord Mayor's Luncheon

Back in July 2011, Flying Colors Comics was honored to receive the City of Concord's Business Recognition Award, saluting our 23+ years of doing business in Concord.

This week, Libby and I were invited to the 27th Annual City of Concord Mayor's Luncheon. We dined with Mayor Ron Leone and other small business owners (from BJ's Brewhouse, Hoffman's Reptiles and Western Vacuum) and were given our plaques commemorating the awards.

The award says Flying Colors is being recognized for "Outstanding Contributions to Our Community"--- and I'd like to say that without your support, there wouldn't be a Flying Colors Comics to get an award like this! 
 
Our staff works hard to make Flying Colors a Concord highlight for anyone visiting the area, but particularly for those who come in week after week to seek out the best in Comics & Other Cool Stuff. 

We are honored daily by your patronage, by the many friends we've made here over the years... and we look forward to being here for many more years. 

There are challenges ahead---  like there are for any "mom and pop" operation, but for right now, all we would like to say is "Thank You!" 

Peace! 

Joe & Libby Field  

(photos by Joyce Davidson-Seitz. Thanks, Joyce! Bottom photo: Concord Mayor Ron Leone on the left with Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce President Ken Dami on the right)