Thanksgiving Week Hours

Tuesday November 21 11am-7pm
Wednesday November 22 11am-8pm
Thursday November 23---Closed for THANKSGIVING!
Friday November 24 11am-7pm
Saturday November 25 11am-7pm
Sunday November 26 12noon-7pm

Tons of New & Cool Stuff will be in-store first thing Wed. 11/22!

...and FLYING COLORS Holiday Sale runs all day Friday 11/24 and Saturday 11/25, with some great deals on Contra Costa's most amazing selection of comics & other ccool stuff. Don't miss it, OK?

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

Katie is Supergirl!

Here's another of our new TV ads. This one will start running locally about a week from now on the Astound and Comcast cable systems.

This one features our "Girls Comics Guru" Jenny, JT Tavernier (son of former comics' retailer, Clay), the young Jacob Kirkpatrick (with his "Someday You'll Ask for My Autograph" t-shirt), and the unmistakable, chinchilltastic smile of Katie, seen here in her Supergirl disguise.

Katie is the reason I'm posting this one a little early, since Sunday 11/19 is her birthday. Everyone, sing "HBD2K"!!



Remember---Flying Colors Holiday Sale is coming up Friday November 24 and Saturday November 25. Be here for sure!

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

NEW & COOL & NOW!

Some highlights from the New & Cool Stuff hitting the racks Wednesday Novembe 15th---

* Absolute DC NEW FRONTIER slipcased hardcover!
* Astonishing X-Men #18
* Astro City: Dark Age Book Two #1
* Bomb Queen V2 #2
* CIVIL WAR #5 (!)
* And CW crossovers: Iron Man #13, New Avengers #25
* Daredevil: Father #6 (The ending of the series when it seemed it would never end!)
* EC Archives: SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES
* The Escapists #5
* Girls #18 and also Volume 3 Survival trade paperback
* Infiniteens #1
* Moon Knight #6
* Sonic X #14
* White Tiger #1
* 100 Bullets #78
---and so many more good new titles!

Plus---
New Star Wars Bust-ups
DC Re-Activated Action Figures, with classic figures of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and LOBO!

See you in Flying Colors!

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

Cool Holiday Savings Coming Nov. 24 & 25

Here are some dates to save:
FLYING COLORS' Holiday Sale is Friday November 24 and Saturday November 25! We'll have lots of cool deals on comics & other cool stuff, so make it a point to be here!

Over the next couple of weeks, you may be seeing this TV ad on a number of cable stations (on the ASTOUND and Comcast Cable systems.) Here's a sneak peek:



And, for those of you who have been asking:
YES! All our new TV ads are complete and will be running once the Holiday Sale is over. Stay tuned here because we will also be debuting the ads here and on YouTube.com before they air on TV.

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

Comic Books ARE Books, too!!!

Interesting piece I found yesterday while searching for comic book news on ye old Internet.
Read the piece HERE!

The new Gene Yang graphic novel (to a degree it's more properly "graphic non-fiction") called AMERICAN BORN CHINESE is up for the National Book Award, one of the highest honors in book publishing. And writer Tony Long doesn't like that a graphic novel is up for the National Book Award.

You can read Gene Yang's response to Tony Long's comments HERE!

Gene Yang's career features a number of fun, thoughful, entertaining and even spiritual works, including LOYOLA CHIN & THE SAN PELIGRAN ORDER, GORDON YAMAMOTO AND THE KING OF THE GEEKS (both from Slave Labor Graphics' Amaze Ink imprint), DUNCAN'S KINGDOM from Image Comics (with Derek Kirk Kim) and even a graphic novel adaptation of the ROSARY published by Pauline Press.

AMERICAN BORN CHINESE (published by First Second Books) delves into Gene's childhood, exploring prejudice of his own as the only Chinese-American in his class. Using the Chinese fable of the Monkey King, along with some very poignant moments, AMERICAN BORN CHINESE is really one of the year's must-reads.

There are some folks, though, who don't consider anything with panel-to-panel storytelling to be "books", no matter how rich and deep the subject matter, no matter how strong the book spine, no matter how acclaimed the work. Some folks are simply prejudiced against the medium of comics and graphic novels.

Given the attention AMERICAN BORN CHINESE is receiving as a finalist for the National Book Award, I do invite you to check it out next time you visit FLYING COLORS.

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

New TV Ads on the Way---

We'll be getting a couple of our new FLYING COLORS TV Ads on the air in the next week or two. Until that happens, though, I wanted to give you a peek behind the camera with these photos from our ad shoot.

We'll be using some of the footage we shot on Free Comic Book Day, along with some new footage. These ads are one of the ways we reach out to the wider community in the hopes of finding new customers. If you look around at all visual media--- TV, movies, video games---comic book related content is more popular than ever, so I hope that means more poeple than ever willbe willing to take a deeper look at all the amazingly entertaining things going on in comics and graphic novels.

Back by popular demand, both Jenny and Brian will be in the new ads. This shot is one of Jenny's out-takes, as she doubled over laughing after flubbing one of her lines. She did a great job with her ads! This girl should be on TV full-time!

It was fun shooting the ads, since we did it here on a Wednesday during a busy New Releases Day. The whole shoot took less than two hours, but there were a number of FlyCo regulars who became audience members as the lights came up and the camera rolled. As always, we have fun doing what we do---and we laughed a LOT through the ad shoot.



And here are a couple shots from Halloween here in FlyCo Land.

It was pretty low-key around here--- I dressed up as a comic book retailer (of all things!).

But the kids in my home neighborhood really liked getting comics and candy when they came by our place.

Now that Halloween is past, we're getting to the point of the year when thoughts turn to gift lists for the Holidays. As always, we're happy to help you get just the gift you want for the Comics' Fan on your list.

Come see us soon!

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

A Peek at the Picks!

Here's a photo look at the FLYING COLORS Staff Picks' board, drawn every week by long-time Retailing Brigade member Mike. next to the picks' board is another white-board re-done every week by Jenny listing all the titles of new comics and graphic novels that hit the racks each New Releases' Day (47 out of 52 weeeks a year that happens on Wednesday!).

Lots of great stuff in store tomorrow morning.

Be here, y'hear?

FlyCoJoe

HITTING THE RACKS Wed. 10/18

Here's a list of just some of the highlights of new & cool comics available Wednesday at 11am at FLYING COLORS COMICS & Other Cool Stuff---

AGNES QUILL AN ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTERY GN
AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #1
ANITA BLAKE VAMPIRE HUNTER: GUILTY PLEASURES #1
AUTHORITY #1
BIRDS OF PREY #99
CIVIL WAR X-MEN #4 (OF 4)
CIVIL WARDROBE
E-MAN RECHARGED
ESSENTIAL MARVEL HORROR VOL 1 TP
FABLES 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL HC (MR)
HIGHLANDER #1
Archie's HOLIDAY FUN DIGEST #11
JOHN WOOS SEVEN BROTHERS #1
KRYPTO THE SUPER DOG #2
LITTLE LULU VOL 12 LEAVE IT TO LULU TP
OMEGA MEN #1
SANDMAN #1 SPECIAL EDITION (MR)
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN FERAL PREMIERE HC
SEVEN SONS GN
SHOWCASE CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN VOL 1 TP
SIMPSONS COMICS #123
WILDCATS #1
WOLVERINE #47 CIVIL WAR

What's your pick of the week?

FlyCoJoe

FLYING COLORS Welcomes Young Collectors!

I had the pleasure today of hosting Cub Scout Pack 815 Den #9 Wolf Cubs from Greenbrook Elementary School in Danville, led by Dan Chevez, Elizabeth Donohue and Cheryl Burns.

The topic for the scout meeting was "Collecting", so it sure made sense to have the meeting here in FLYING COLORS. I showed off some of my old baseball cards and comics, and I hopefully got across that collecting is a lot more about FUN than it is about making money later. When that outlook is fully embraced---by the collector and by those close to the collector--- everyone comes away happier for the experience.

I learned the great pleasure of havng a hobby from my Dad who was an avid stamp collector. When I was about the age of the Cub Scouts I met today, Dad tried his best to get me into stamp collecting, and I was into it for only a short while. One of the things all parents learn along the way is that kids have a way of finding their own areas of interest. Some of those interests will intersect with those of our parents---my love of baseball sure came from my Dad. Some of those interests will make parents scratch their heads, too. Rocks? Bottle Caps? Yu-Gi-Oh cards? C-c-c-c-comic Books? You betcha!

Just kids' stuff, right? Well, no, not at all!
Being a collector is all about finding something fun to pursue--- it's as primal as the early humans hunting and gathering and then showing off their stuff to the others back in the cave. In his recent book "Rejuvenile", Christopher Noxon said "The culture of childhood brims with qualities - wonder, adventure, absurdity, make-believe - in short supply in the adult world."

Or, as I've been putting for years: "The reason people can get so goofy about their collections and their hobbies, is to keep from going crazy about things in general."

Keep it fun, y'all!

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

New & Cool & In-Store Wed. 10/11

It's Columbus Day today---and I want to make sure you know, despite this holdiay, we WILL have New Comics & Other Cool Stuff hittting the racks here on Wednesday, as usual.

Here's a list of just a few of the items we'll have in-store Wednesday October 11, 2006
52 WEEK #23
ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL 1 HC (MR)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN MASTERWORKS VOL 8
ANTIGONE
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #2
BOMB QUEEN VOL 2 #1
CAPTAIN AMERICA WINTER SOLDIER VOL 2 TP
CHIP ZDARSKYS MONSTER COPS #1
CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #7
DARKMAN VS ARMY OF DARKNESS #1
DMZ #12
DORK #11
ESCAPISTS #4
FABLES #54
FABLES SPECIAL EDITION #1
INFINITE CRISIS COMPANION TP
INVINCIBLE VOL 7
STAN LEE MEETS DR STRANGE
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED #1
ULTIMATE POWER #1
UNCANNY X-MEN #479
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #7

See you this week!

FlyCoJoe