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Thien Pham: Sumo & Slam!

SPECIAL EVENT Alert: 

Please join us Saturday December 15 at 1PM as we welcome back artist & writer THIEN PHAM to Flying Colors. 

Thien's new graphic novel is called SUMO and it tells the tale of Scott, a washed-up football player whose girlfriend abandons him along with his dreams of playing pro football. But then a new chapter begins in Scott's as he is offered a position in a Japanese sumo training "stable." He abandons his old life--- everything--- to become an aspiring sumo wrestler. When he does, he begins to find some kind of center in himself...a center that had seemed lost forever.

Thien Pham, the acclaimed illustrator of Gene Luen Yang's Level Up, returns as the writer and artist of a unique new graphic novel. Highly poetic and structured to echo the slow build and sudden clash of a sumo match, Pham's SUMO is an unusual and beautiful book. It's nearly a contradiction in terms: a delicate, deft, tender tale about...sumo wrestling." 

 

SUMO is highly and heartily recommended! Flying Colors will also feature an exclusive bookplate for Thien Pham to sign. 

And just to make it an even crazier day, Thien Pham has agreed to take part in another of Flying Colors nearly famous COMIC SLAM!© events.

COMIC SLAM! is like beat poetry except using comic book dialogue. We'll have members of the Flying Colors Retailing Brigade ---and Thien Pham--- perform short monologues and character soliloquies from favorite classic comics. 

If you would like to be a COMIC SLAM! participant, we will may have a couple of openings for performers. Please sign up in the store with the monologue you would like to perform. We'll choose a few from those who sign up with the hopes we'll have enough time to squeeze in all the ones that are chosen. 

And if we're lucky, we'll also get Thien to do a couple of quick draw demonstrations! 

Don't miss it! 

Sumo and SLAM! at Flying Colors, Saturday December 15th at 1PM.  

Peace! 

FlyCoJoe

NOWHERE MEN #1 --- Please Listen

WHERE: Flying Colors Comics

WHEN: Saturday December 1 at 1pm

WHO: Image Comics Publisher and writer Eric Stephenson

WHAT: It's the debut of Eric Stephenson's new series, NOWHERE MEN, where scientists are recognized like rock stars for their work.

WHY: Well, our events here at Flying Colors are always a lot of fun. It's also chance to get this first issue of Image Comics NOWHERE MEN signed by its writer/creator. That would make for a pretty cool stocking stuffer for the fans of comics, rock n roll and science on your list.... or maybe just for yourself.

Watch this space for a special deal to go along with this event. Make you plans now to be here on Saturday December 1!

Let us know you'll be coming by
going to our Facebook Events page and click on "Going!" And please invite your friends, too!

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

Sweet Deals & FREE Calendar Poster Highlight Flying Colors on Small Business Saturday Nov 24

Check out the deals HERE!

Special Bonus: Get a FREE copy of Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Volume 8 --- a $25 value --- when you spend $100 this weekend at Flying Colors! 

When it happens in comics, it happens in Flying Colors!

Thanksgiving Weekend Specials @ Flying Colors!

Click HERE for our latest email with news about our
Thanksgiving Weekend Sale
and 2013 Calendar Release Event!

And THANK YOU for keeping us in business for the last 24 years!

Flying Colors will be CLOSED on
Thanksgiving Day
Thursday November 22 to
observe the holiday.

We'll be back in action from 11AM-7PM on Friday.

Peace 'n' Stuffing!

FlyCoJoe

The Ghost has done it again!

SAGA, the Image Comics series by writer Brian K Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples is perhaps the biggest break-out new hit series of 2012!

What is SAGA? 
Two soldiers from opposite sides of a torturous galactic war fall in love and then risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. Writer Brian K. Vaughan (New York Times bestselling writer of Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina) works with acclaimed artist Fiona Staples, making Saga the widescreen epic of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction lovers love SAGA!

Pictured here is the limited edition GHOST VARIANT for SAGA #7, with art by Paul Pope and color art by Fiona Staples. This special Ghost Variant is only available from a relative handful of comic shops all over North America... and of course, Flying Colors is one of those featured outlets. 


With the recent release of
SAGA Volume One compiling the first six issues of the series for the great price of $9.99, and today's release of Saga #7, there's never been a better time to jump on this series.

We hope to see you in the store soon so we can tell you about this cool series!

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

(For those too far away to drive to Flying Colors in Concord, we have copies of SAGA #7 Ghost Variant Edition available at eBay.com.) 

Oakland Coliseum in the Twilight Zone!

...it's amazing what kinds of odd and unexpected shots I can get using the "panorama" setting in Apple's iOs 6 for the iPhone.

Notice: No "Mount Davis"---just clear blue sky. Though it's somewhat pesky that the tarped third deck is collapsing into the Coliseum's Plaza level.

Here's my off-season hope that a deal will get done for a new ballpark at Jack London Square in downtown Oakland. The symmetry of having the SF Giants' west-side waterfront ball-park face a new A's East Bay-side waterfront ballpark would be wonderful for the entire Bay Area.

95 days 'til pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training 2013!

Marvel NOW! Come & Get 'em!

Halloween 2012: Flying Colors Welcomes Trick or Treaters!

Be here for the fun! FREE Comics & Halloween Treats! Costume Contest! And a pretty cool sale, too! get the details HERE!

We'll be OPEN on Halloween from 11AM-7PM!

Peace 'n' comics!

FlyCoJoe

Halloween ComicFest @ Flying Colors 10/27-10/31

Flying Colors Halloween ComicFest starts Saturday October 27 and runs through Halloween Night, Wednesday October 31!

Here's what's happening:

We know that many Halloween parties will start this weekend, including getting into your great costumes for the first time.  So please stop by Flying Colors and show off your costume! Enter our costume contest for a chance to win the WALKING DEAD Complete Season 2 Special Edition Blu-Ray set ($100 value)! 

Anyone coming to Flying Colors in costume from Saturday to Wednesday will also get a choice of FREE Halloween comics!

Also, we're running one of our very rare sale events with specials that are outrageously good! Do some early holiday shopping if you want because you will not see prices like this again!

On Halloween, Wednesday October 31, Flying Colors will be open from 11am-6:00pm and we'll have treats for everyone!

For the full scoop, hit this link!  

Peace 'n' Spooky Cool fun!

FlyCoJoe