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Got a craving for comics?

Get your fill Sunday, August 19th at the first ever Dartmouth Comics Arts Festival or if you want to be hip about it, DCAF for short. Located on the Dartmouth waterfront at Alderney Landing and running from 11am to 5pm, DCAF is part comic celebration, part craft fair and all awesome. We’ll have more than two dozen comic book creators that include such superstars like Faith Erin Hicks (FRIENDS WITH BOYS, ADVENTURE TIME, WAR AT ELLESMERE, ZOMBIES CALLING), Nick Bradshaw (WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN, ASTONISHING X-MEN, ARMY OF DARKNESS), Mike Holmes (ADVENTURE TIME, TRUE STORY), Steve McNiven (MARVEL: CIVIL WAR, NEMESIS, WOLVERINE: OLD MAN LOGAN), and Darwyn Cooke (PARKER, DC: NEW FRONTIER, BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN & SILK SPECTRE). There will be heaps of locally-made comic books, prints, t-shirts and oh, so much more. Best of all, it’s easily accessible by bus or ferry, there is plenty of free parking and admission is 100% completely, totally free to all. So, if you’re in need of some sequential stimulation this summer, why not try DCAF?

FREE ADMISSION!

FREE PARKING!

11AM – 5PM SUNDAY AUGUST 19TH
For more information check out these links:

The DCAF Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/events/189821017815999/

The DCAF blog http://dartmouthcomicartsfestival.blogspot.ca/

Alderney Landing http://www.alderneylanding.com/

DCAF: Dartmouth Comic Arts Fest & August Sale!

Supersale!

20% off all comics and graphic novels for the rest of August!

We made it to 20! Twenty years of comic bookery and we

would like to thank all of you with a 20% off sale on all comics

and graphic novels for the rest of August!

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Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival! August 19th!

the first-ever Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival will be held on

Sunday August 19th from 11am to 5pm at Alderney Landing

on the lovely Dartmouth Waterfront!

Free admission – free parking – easy to get to via the ferry or

bus! Join more than two dozen cartoonists who will be exhibiting

their work, there will be comics for sale, posters, prints, t-shirts and

lots more!

Facebook event info: http://www.facebook.com/events/189821017815999/

The DCAF blog: http://dartmouthcomicartsfestival.blogspot.ca/

Where it’s at: http://www.alderneylanding.com/

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Any questions, comments, concerns, complaints?

Let us know! e-mail us at shop@strangeadventures.com

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It belongs in a museum!

#itbelongsinamuseum is a hashtag that’s been trending in the maritimes lately – it’s about the new exhibit on its way to Halifax’s Museum of Natural History starting on May 18th and continuing until August 26th when it leaves for Naples, Florida and then back into the unknown worlds!

What is it?

It’s called “Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television”

An original exhibition of costumes from Blade Runner, The Terminator, Star Trek and many more of the most popular films and television shows of all time, to tell the story how costumes play a crucial role in defining characters for visual storytelling in media. The collection was organized by empmuseum.org in Seattle.

The exhibition examines how costume design incorporates color, style, scale, materials, historical traditions and cultural cues to help performers and audiences engage with the characters being portrayed. The exhibition’s purpose is to offer museum visitors new ways of seeing characters as defined by their costumes.

Organized into sections based on themes such as “Heroes and Villains,” “Creating the Character,” and “Caped Crusaders” as well as specific franchises such as Star Trek.
Exhibition Includes:

Hat worn by Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Leather jacket worn by Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and Indy’s whip from the film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Leather jacket worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film The Terminator (1984)

Costume worn by Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond Stantz in the film Ghostbusters II (1989).

Embroidered robe worn by actor Joe Turkel as Eldon Tyrell, creator of the replicants, in Blade Runner (1982)

Costume worn by George Clooney as Batman in the film Batman & Robin (1997)

Tunic and sash worn by William Shatner as Captain Kirk in the Star Trek episode “Mirror Mirror” (1967)
and more!

HAL-CON WEEKEND (& CAL-CON!)

The Halifax store will be closed on Friday, November 11th for Remembrance Day and to get ready for the big Hal-Con weekend! The big sci-fi convention takes place at the Convention Center on Argyle Street in the heart of downtown.

Stay tuned to our twitter feed and facebook page for updates on special deals all weekend at Cal-Con, ridiculously good deals on Star Wars poop and Doctor Whatsit stuff!

Strange Adventures will be playing host at a signing booth in the autograph area and here’s a partial schedule of events:

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AUGUSTUS NOTES

our August sale is still one. Save 20% off all comics, graphic novels and toys. Especially good if you need some reading for the beach or cottage! We have some terrific EC annuals which collect 3-5 of the original EC classics such as Vault of Horror, Frontline Combat and Piracy! (one of my favourites to read on the beach)

The big DC relaunch starts on August 31st with the release of Flashpoint #5 and Justice League #1. We’re thinking of taking part in the midnight release so folks in the maritimes will be among the very first in the world to read these comics!

I thought this was kind of cool:

Marvel Hero cupcakes you can make at home! We are bringing in the Han Solo in carbonite ice cube trays…maybe we should try to get these as well?

Do you have the twitter?
Do you follow us?
Fredericton tweets under the
handle @StrangeNB; Dartmouth does so as @DartmouthComix; and Halifax is @strangeadventrz! We post things that hopefully will interest you or at the very least, entertain you for 140 or so characters. We also use twitter to mention spotlight sales, special deals, stuff we found, movie ticket giveaways, etc.

FanExpo takes place in a couple of weeks in Toronto. Dave and Nathan from the Halifax store will be heading there. Nathan for his first-ever comic convention, and Dave to debut the latest issue of Slam-a-rama! Issue #4 of Slam-a-rama will make its first appearance at his table in the FanExpo artist alley. I think his booth is #128 and he’s sharing with The Wordburglar and other fine comic book folks. If you are going to FanExpo, be sure to say “hi!” We’ll have copies of Slam-a-rama in our stores as soon as Dave gets back to Halifax.

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Animaritime Time!

HAPPY CANADA DAY!
WE’RE CLOSED FRIDAY JULY 1ST!
Regular hours Saturday onwards

>>>>>>>>HOWEVER….

due to the Canada Day holiday, our new stuff won’t be
sorted and ready for sale until 5PM on Wednesday, July 6th

ITEM!: Animaritime!
The biggest little show in Atlantic Canada is on this weekend
at the Delta Beausejour Hotel in Moncton.

You can get more info at their website:
http://animaritime.org/

and if you’re in Moncton for the convention, be sure to drop
by our tables in the Vendors / Artist Alley room!

We’ll have some spiffy signed prints and the debut of Kate or Die #2,
the internet’s newest favourite comic!

As well as lots of manga, graphic novels, some cool toys,
wall scrolls, and more! Hope to see you there!

CAL-CON AT HAL-CON

Hal-con is on this weekend in halifax! The first sci-fi convention here in a loooong time. Strange Adventures will be set up in the vendor’s area and since cal is the one who’s mostly going to be working it, we’re calling it Cal-con!

We’ll have some new and vintage sci-fi toys for sale as well as comix and graphic novels – AND several amazing cartoonists will be in attendance!

Meet some terrific cartoonists!
Buy their books & get’em signed!

Darwyn Cooke (darwyncooke.ca):
Saturday 1-5PM • Sunday 11AM – 3PM
Darwyn’s latest book is an adaptation of Richard Stark’s crime thriller The Outfit and like the previous book, The Hunter, it’s a New York Times best-seller!

Caanan Grall (occasionalcomics.com):
Friday 2-4PM & 6-9PM
Saturday 9-11AM & 1-3PM
According to Caanan’s website, he is an Australian cartoonist formerly living in Toronto, now Nova Scotia! He travelled to Canada because they have lotsof water and Degrassi.He has a formal degree in advertising/copywriting, and no desire to use it. His big break came with a local Ballarat company, Wizard Books (later ziptales.com) illustrating children’s literacy books. Since then he has gone on to do uncountable storyboards, some work for Cambridge Press, and Oxford Press, some self-published comics, and the 180 page Celadore at zudacomics.com, a story about monster busting, wish fulfillment, spitting in cereal, and whatever else I could fit in there.

Faith Erin Hicks (faitherinhicks.com):
Saturday 10AM – 2PM
Faith’s bio reads: Born in the wilds of British Columbia, the young Faith frolicked among the Sasquatch native to the province before moving to Ontario at age five. There she was homeschooled with her three brothers, and developed an unnatural passion for galloping around on horseback, though never without a proper helmet (because you only get one skull). After twenty years of suffering through Ontario’s obscenely hot summers, she migrated east, and now lives beside the other ocean in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She worked in animation for a bit, and now draws comics full time. She’s not sure how that happened either.

Dave Howlett (tucocomics.blogspot.com)
Saturday 2-4PM • Sunday 11AM – 3PM
Dave manages the Halifax branch of Strange Adventures and has been
writing and drawing comics for years. He’s designed several album
covers and done illustration work for many newspapers, websites, and
magazines. His newest books are the first two issues of Slamarama and
he’s just released a collected edition of his Scenester comic series.

Mark Oakley (iboxpublishing.com)
Friday, Saturday & Sunday – all days!
Originally from Ontario, Mark makes his home in the wilds of Wolfville and has been self-publishing his comics and graphic novels since the 1980s. Thieves & Kings, Stardrop, The Walking Mage are among his best known works.

We hope to see you at Cal-Con!

BITS AND BITES

I JUST GOT SOME NEW T-SHIRTS IN STOCK – A NEW DESIGN BY MIKE HOLMES THAT WILL ALSO BE SHOWING UP AS THE COVER TO A MAG THAT I MAY SOMEDAY GET FINISHED. WORKING ON GETTING SOME NEW HOODIES DONE – I’LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN THEY COME IN.

HALCON HAS A NEW MASCOT AND IS LOOKING FOR SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR A NAME. I LIKE HALBOT, BUT IT’S PROB’LY TOO PLAIN. CHECK OUT THEIR WEBSITE HERE OR THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE HERE

FREDERICTON WAS PRETTY MUCH SHUT DOWN TODAY DUE TO THE SNOWSTORM – MORE THAN A FOOT OF SNOW FELL IN NEW BRUNSWICK, COMBINED WITH BLOWING SNOW, ICE AND YOU GET ONE HECK OF A MESS. THE FREDERICTON STRANGE ADVENTURES IS CLOSED TODAY AS ARE MOST THINGS. HOPEFULLY SPRING WILL COME SOON….THOUGH NOT SO SOON THAT IT CAUSES ANOTHER FLOOD!!

ANIMARITIME IS IN 2 WEEKS. HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!

HAVE YOU SEEN THE SHIELD YET? JUST ARRIVED IN HALIFAX – MADE OF STURDY VIBRANIUM AND ADAMANTIUM AND MODELLED BY DAVE: