Note: Due to books selling the exact same number of copies, we stretched the list to a Top 107.
Looking at the list, it's pretty obvious Flying Colors is a very family-friendly shop with tons of all-ages graphic novels among our best-sellers.
Also, just a small bit of trivia: Flying Colors sold at least one copy of about 5000 different graphic novel titles. Yowza! That's one very long tail!
Designed by cartoonist Jeff Bonivert (Captain Four Color's co-creator!), this is the 16th annual calendar we've done. We think you'll dig it.
And in case you aren't local to Concord and you still would like to get one (or two), Flying Colors 2022 poster/calendar is also available by mail order!
FlyCo Faithful... start your holiday shopping engines!
How it was then... and how it is now!
Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff first opened on October 3, 1988...
33 years
ago!
Our first customer was a kind gentleman named Tony who bought a few packs of
baseball cards. That opening day we did all of $63 in
sales (truly a soft opening!). We made up a lot of things as we went, trying to invent little systems
where there were none before, trying to make friends and win customers one at a
time, one day at a time... hoping we could survive long enough to "make
it."
And here we are... 12,052 days since October 3 1988!
We've tried our best to make Flying Colors
live up to our original mission to be "the one comic shop for the entire
family." Little did I know that so many of you have become like family to
us. That's a beautiful thing!
Heaping mounds of gratitude to my Libby who has been as integral to the success
of Flying Colors as anyone, even though she prefers me to be the public face of
Flying Colors. I was the comics geek, after all.
And then there's our FlyCo
Retailing Brigade (with thanks to cartoonist Jeff Bonivert for originally
naming the group... plus designing and co-creating our Flying Colors' superhero
mascot, Captain Four Color!
In order from 1988 to present, I wish to thank each and every one of our frankly fabulous FlyCo Retailing Brigadeers:
Anne, Mark, Teri, Tom, Steve, Scott, Scott, Sam, Doug, Gavin, Jason, Marleigha, Alan, Cara Mia, Quinn, Shaw, Matt, Ken, Colin, Chris M, Adrian, Jerry, Erin, Paul, Chris J, Maria, Jan, Robert, Mike A , Mike E, Adam, Melissa, Taylor, Brian H, Brian, Cindy, Adric, Jenny, Robert, Andrew, Ed, Marty, Jazmine, Leticia, Melissa, Susie, Aaron, Kenni, Casey, Anna, Eryn, Spencer, Dylan, Chad, Andrew, Aidan, Cyrus!
Finally, let's face the facts.
A business
without customers just doesn't last. So I want to genuinely thank you all,
past and present, who have trusted us with your business over all these
years. You are all FlyCo Faithful... and I am FlyCoJoe, your grateful Local
Comic Shop owner.
And I hope we'll be around for many more years of Slinging Comics to Concord,
to Contra Costa County and to the Cosmos!
Bless you all, each and every one!
Peace 'n' Comics!
Joe "FlyCoJoe" Field
Mel Smith is the mastermind behind the popular Rock and Roll Biography series from Acme Ink, plus other series including Dead Ahead, 7 Lives of Dr. Phibes, Death Race: Lords of the Road, Heavy Metal, Vincent Price Presents--- and the new series Becoming Frankenstein, featured in the 10 Ton Press FCBD 2021 special edition.
Get a taste of Charley & Humphrey in "10 Tons of Fun" the FCBD
special edition comic.
These guests will be signing at Flying Colors on Free Comic Book Day, Saturday August 14 from 11AM until 2PM.
