FCBD Guest Announcement #2: Flying Colors Welcomes Top Cow's Matt Hawkins

 
Flying Colors is happy to announce another of our Free Comic Book Day guests! 

Writer, physicist, social media maven and all around swell guy, MATT HAWKINS has published over 1,000 comic books in his 20 year career at Image Comics and Top Cow. 

He's  created and/or written many including Think Tank, Aphrodite IX, The Test, Alibi, Necromancer and Lady Pendragon. 

Despite producing TV series, feature films and video games, Matt still considers himself to be a comic book dude.  

Top Cow's APHRODITE IX is one of the Free Comic Book Day editions, so get your copy signed by Matt, then sign up to get future issues at Flying Colors Comics! 

More announcements coming soon!

(Stay tuned for signing hours)

Flying Colors to host writer James Robinson on Free Comic Book Day

The entire Retailing Brigade here at Flying Colors Comics is proud to announce our first guest for our Free Comic Book Day event on Saturday May 4, 2013.

James Robinson is the writer of the current DC New 52 hit series, Earth 2.  James also wrote the critically acclaimed recent mini-series The Shade, featuring the popular supporting character from his Eisner Award nominated series Starman.
James also has a new mini-series coming from Image Comics called The Saviors.

"I'm thrilled to be signing at Flying Colors, the birthplace of FCBD," said James. To which we echo that we are thrilled to host him as our guest on Free Comic Book Day.

(Stay tuned for James signing time here on May 4.)

Madefire Story Night @ Flying Colors, Thur 3/7 @ 6PM

Flying Colors Comics is excited to announce our next FlyCo Fans Pizza Night will be Thursday March 7 at 6PM. We'll be serving pizza, beer & sodas in our ongoing effort to build a bigger and better Bay Area comics community--- one slice at a time!

We're excited to announce this event will feature the ultra-talented crew from Madefire, setting the digital comics world on fire with their Madefire app for the iPhone and iPad. 

We’ll have iPads loaded up with all of Madefire's titles during the pizza night so you can see for yourself the fantastic things Madefire does with its Motion Books. Bring your friends, and appetite for food, drink and stories.

Here's a brief video about Madefire: 

Will Eisner Week at Flying Colors

Will Eisner (1917 –  2005) is widely regarded as the father of the American graphic novel. 

He was a pioneer in the field of comic books, as an artist, writer & studio head. He was the creator The Spirit, a character that was in newspaper strip, comics, TV and movies. 

Flying Colors joins in the celebration of "Will Eisner Week" March 1-10 in two ways: 

1) Every Eisner graphic novel is 20% off from March 1-10. This is great chance for those who haven't yet experienced Eisner's creative force. 

2) We are also asking anyone who would like to participate to come into Flying Colors and let us know you would like to go on video with either a tribute to Will Eisner or thoughts about what graphic novels mean to you. 

We also encourage everyone to get into the Spirit of "Will Eisner Week" by reading a graphic novel. 

Peace! 

Joe "FlyCoJoe" Field

Valentine's Day Reminder: Go Local!

Fifty Years Later, the Amazing Spider-Man Gets a Second Chance to Warn His First Issue Readers....

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From the pages of 
Amazing Spider-Man #1, cover-dated March 1963, but released sometime in late '62.






























And for a list of this coming week's New Releases, please click HERE!

New JayBee Funnies!

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More Jeff Bonivert comics, including his

72 page Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

graphic novel "Muscle & Faith"

can be found HERE!

100 Days Until FREE Comic Book Day!

The 12th Annual Free Comic Book Day will be Saturday May 4 at Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff and 2000 other comic book stores in 50 countries all over the world.

We'll be announcing our Special Guests for the event soon! In the meantime, here's a cool video produced by Dusty Caravan Productions that was shot here at Flying Colors on Free Comic Book Day 2012.



More:
The official Free Comic Book Day site has info about the comics we'll be giving away!
Here's an interview I did with Comics Bulletin about FCBD.
And here's the column I wrote back in 2001 that started it all!

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

FlyCo Fans Pizza night Friday Jan 25!

Are you a fan of Flying Colors? Love comics and want to meet others who also love comics? Then consider yourself invited to the first FlyCo Fans Pizza Night at Flying Colors Comics, Friday January 25 from 6:30-8:30pm.

We'll supply the pizza and beverages. All we ask is that you respond to the invitation so we can plan the right amount of pizza and drinks.  Please RSVP by visiting our Flying Colors Facebook Fan Page. The Pizza Party event is HERE! Then hit "Going."

Hope to see you Friday (and of course, we hope to see you sooner than that since our New Releases Day is every Wednesday at Flying Colors!)---

Peace!

FlyCoJoe

2012 Top-Selling Books @ Flying Colors Comics

The results are in! Here are 

Flying Colors Top-Selling Book-Format Comics for 2012!

   

1. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 01 DAYS GONE BYE                
2. AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 01 PROMISE       
3. BATMAN EARTH ONE HC                  
4. SAGA TP VOL 01                    
5. AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 02 PROMISE       
6. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 02 MILES BEHIND US                                                                                                    AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 03 PROMISE       
7. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 16 A LARGER WORLD                       
8. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 03 SAFETY BEHIND BARS              
9. NINJAGO GN VOL 03 RISE O/T SERPENTINE             
10. LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN III CENTURY #3              
11. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 17 SOMETHING TO FEAR              
12. AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER LOST ADVENTURES TP VOL 01                    
13. BATMAN HUSH COMPLETE TP            
14. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 04 HEARTS DESIRE            
15. BATMAN THE LONG HALLOWEEN TP NEW ED                   

      NINJAGO GN VOL 04 TOMB O/T FANGPYRE      

             WALKING DEAD TP VOL 15 WE FIND OURSELVES

    19.   JUSTICE LEAGUE HC VOL 01 ORIGIN            

     TUNE SUMO GN        

     WALKING DEAD TP VOL 05 BEST DEFENSE

22. BATMAN HC VOL 01 THE COURT OF OWLS              

      SUPERMAN EARTH ONE HC VOL 02            

      THANOS QUEST #1  

25. DAREDEVIL BY MARK WAID TP VOL 01                    
26. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 14 NO WAY OUT
27. DESTROYER TP                   

     WALKING DEAD TP VOL 13 TOO FAR GONE        

29. BATMAN & ROBIN HC VOL 01 BORN TO KILL                

      BATMAN DARK KNIGHT RETURNS TP             

      BATMAN YEAR ONE DELUXE SC             

      SANDMAN TP VOL 01 PRELUDES & NOCTURNES   

      WALKING DEAD TP VOL 12 LIFE AMONG THEM

34. CHEW TP VOL 05 MAJOR LEAGUE CHEW             

      FABLES TP VOL 17 INHERIT THE WIND       

      TINY TITANS TP VOL 07 GROWING UP TINY          

      WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM TP VOL 01              

      WATCHMEN TP

39. BATMAN THE KILLING JOKE SPECIAL ED HC                  

            BONE COLOR ED SC VOL 01 OUT BONEVILLE1   

      HELLBOY TP VOL 12 THE STORM AND THE FURY              

      INFINITY GAUNTLET TP NEW PTG                 

      SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES TP VOL 00 BEGINNING

44. AMULET SC VOL 05 PRINCE OF THE ELVES             

      DEADPOOL TP VOL 01 SECRET INVASION       

      EMPOWERED TP VOL 07              

      SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES TP VOL 01       

      TINY TITANS TP VOL 04 THE FIRST RULE OF PET CLUB       

      WALKING DEAD TP VOL 06 SORROWFUL LIFE           

      WALKING DEAD TP VOL 08 MADE TO SUFFER          

      WALKING DEAD TP VOL 10 WHAT WE BECOME

       52. AMULET SC VOL 01 STONEKEEPER            

      BATMAN AND ROBIN TP VOL 01 BATMAN REBORN          

      BATMAN HAUNTED KNIGHT TP      

      BATMAN KNIGHTFALL TP NEW EDITION VOL 01            

      BLACKEST NIGHT TP        

      RICHARD STARKS PARKER THE SCORE            

      SCOTT PILGRIM COLOR HC VOL 01 (OF 6)              

      SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES TP VOL 18       

      TINY TITANS TP VOL 02 ADVENTURES IN AWESOMENESS               

      TINY TITANS TP VOL 06 THE TREEHOUSE AND BEYOND          

      WALKING DEAD TP VOL 09 HERE WE REMAIN

63. ANIMAL MAN TP VOL 01 THE HUNT              

      FATALE TP VOL 01 DEATH CHASES ME            

      POWER RANGERS SUPER SAMURAI GN VOL 01  SHORT   MEMORY                  

      POWERPUFF GIRLS TP VOL 01 TITANS OF TOWNSVILLE             

      STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 03              

      STAR WARS CLONE WARS YR TP VOL 07 ENEMY WITHIN           

      WALKING DEAD TP VOL 11 FEAR THE HUNTERS

70. COW BOY A BOY AND HIS HORSE HC                  

      FLASHPOINT TP                          

      KNUCKLES THE ECHIDNA ARCHIVES TP VOL 02       

      NINJAGO GN VOL 01 CHALLENGE OF SAMUKAI        

      SUPERGIRL COSMIC ADVENTURES IN THE EIGHTH GRADE TP       

      TINY TITANS TP VOL 05 FIELD TRIPPIN          

      WALKING DEAD TP VOL 07 THE CALM BEFORE    

77. AMULET SC VOL 04 LAST COUNCIL                    

     ATOMIC ROBO TP VOL 01 NEW PTG        

     ATOMIC ROBO TP VOL 06 GHOST OF STATION X      

     BATMAN AND ROBIN TP VOL 03 BATMAN ROBIN MUST DIE       

     CATWOMAN TP VOL 01 THE GAME             

     CHEW TP VOL 01       

     CIVIL WAR TP          

     DRAMA GN            

     FLEX MENTALLO MAN OF MUSCLE MYSTERY DLX HC           

     MARVEL MASTERWORKS AVENGERS TP VOL 01       

     SAILOR MOON TP KODANSHA ED VOL 04              

     SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES TP VOL 02       

     SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES TP VOL 17       

     STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 04              

     SUPERMAN RED SON TP             

     UNDERWATER WELDER GN

93. AQUAMAN HC VOL 01 THE TRENCH                     

      BATMAN CHRONICLES TP VOL 01              

      BATMAN DEATH BY DESIGN DELUXE ED HC             

      BATMAN NINE LIVES SC             

      CHEW TP VOL 04 FLAMBE          

      COMIC BOOK HISTORY OF COMICS GN            

     FRANKLIN RICHARDS TP SON OF GENIUS ULT COLL          

     GREEN LANTERN SINESTRO CORPS WAR TP          

     INCOGNEGRO SC             

     NINJAGO GN VOL 05 KINGDOM O/T SNAKES          

     PRO ONE SHOT       

     SAILOR MOON TP KODANSHA ED VOL 01              

     SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES VOL 5 TP         

     STUFF OF LEGEND TP     

107. ALL STAR SUPERMAN TP                

      AMULET SC VOL 02 STONEKEEPERS CURSE            

      ATOMIC ROBO TP VOL 02 DOGS OF WAR               

      BATMAN AND ROBIN TP VOL 02 BATMAN VS ROBIN        

      BATMAN BATTLE FOR THE COWL TP        

      BATMAN DARK VICTORY TP             

      BATMAN THE MAN WHO LAUGHS TP             

      BRIDES STORY HC GN BOOK 01              

      CAPTAIN AMERICA WINTER SOLDIER ULTIMATE COLLECTION TP             

     DEADPOOL TP VOL 02 DARK REIGN             

     DISNEY FAIRIES GN VOL 09 TINKER BELL & HER MAGICAL ARRIVAL        

     GET JIRO HC          

     GRAND DUKE HC        

     INVINCIBLE TP VOL 16 FAMILY TIES                

     JOKER HC            

     KICK-ASS 2 PREM HC        

     KING CITY TP          

     KNUCKLES THE ECHIDNA ARCHIVES TP VOL 03       

     MORNING GLORIES TP VOL 03 P.E.                 

     NINJAGO GN VOL 02 MASK OF THE SENSEI            

     POKEMON BLACK & WHITE GN VOL 01            

     RACHEL RISING TP VOL 01 SHADOW OF DEATH       

     SANDMAN TP VOL 02 THE DOLLS HOUSE            

     SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES TP VOL 03       

     SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES TP VOL 10       

     STAR WARS CLONE WARS YR TP VOL 09 SITH HUNTERS        

     TINTIN GN SECRET OF THE UNICORN  

    134. ADVENTURE TIME TP VOL 011

      ARKHAM ASYLUM ANNIVERSARY ED SC

      ATOMIC ROBO TP VOL 04 OTHER STRANGENESS           

      BABYS IN BLACK HC

      BATMAN DETECTIVE COMICS HC VOL 01 FACES OF DEATH      

      BATMAN INCORPORATED DELUXE HC VOL 01

      BATMAN KNIGHTFALL TP NEW ED VOL 02 KNIGHTQUEST           

      BATMAN MAD LOVE AND OTHER STORIES TP 

      BLACKSAD SILENT HELL HC   

      CARNAGE FAMILY FEUD TP   

CHEW TP VOL 06 SPACE CAKES      

CINDERELLA FABLES ARE FOREVER TP 

EPIC MAD TP    

FABLES TP VOL 01 LEGENDS IN EXILE

FRANKLIN RICHARDS TP SON OF GENIUS ULT COL GN BK 02   

GREEN LANTERN HC VOL 01 SINESTRO 

GREEN LANTERN SECRET ORIGIN TP 

HELLBLAZER TP VOL 01 ORIGINAL SINS          

HOBBIT TP 

I KILL GIANTS TP

KICK-ASS TP      

KORGI GN VOL 01 SPROUTING WINGS   

LOCKE & KEY TP VOL 01 WELCOME TO LOVECRAFT   

LOCKE & KEY TP VOL 04 KEYS TO THE KINGDOM 

MARVEL MASTERWORKS FANTASTIC FOUR TP VOL 08      

POKEMON BLACK & WHITE GN VOL 08

PUNISHER MAX TP VOL 01 IN THE BEGINNING

SMILE SC 

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES VOL 6 TP   

STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 01

WALKING DEAD HC VOL 01 NEW PTG  

WONDER WOMAN HC VOL 01 BLOOD      

X-MEN SEASON ONE PREM HC

Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 01 UNMANNED   

Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 05 RING OF TRUTH      

Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 07 PAPER DOLLS