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Cartoonist Mike Holmes signs Bravest Warriors (and Freebies for you, too!)

Cartoonist Mike Holmes (www.mikeholmesdraws.com) will be signing comics at the Halifax Strange Adventures from 11AM to noon this Saturday, Dec. 1st! A signed comic-book makes for a fine stocking stuffer!

Mike has worked on Adventure Time comics, graphic novels such as Shenanigans as well as The Coast newspaper strip, True Story! He also illustrated the lead story in the hit Hobo with a Shotgun comic-book!

AND the first 100 people at Strange Adventures this Saturday get a FREE copy of the “bravely bold” variant edition of Bravest Warriors #2 with a spiffy cover by Mike!

RSVP at the facebook event here:

http://www.facebook.com/events/225603630906291/

The Bravely Bold variant cover to Bravest Warriors #2!

the Bravely Bold variant cover for Bravest Warriors #2 is out this week!

Illustrated by Mike Holmes and written by Joey Comeau, the comic book series

expands on the adventures of intrepid space heroes created by Adventure Time’s Pendleton Ward!

Available in select stores in the US and Canada:

Alternate Reality Comics
www.alternaterealitycomics.net

Another Dimension
www.facebook.com/AnotherDimensionComics

Austin Books & Comics
www.austinbooks.com

Beach Ball Comics
www.facebook.com/pages/Beach-Ball-Comics/124733384214

Brave New Worlds
www.bravenewworldscomics.com

Bridge City Comics
www.bridgecitycomics.com

Bunjee’s Comics
www.bunjeescomics.com

Casablanca Comics
www.casablancacomics.com

Chapel Hill Comics
www.chapelhillcomics.com/

Chicago Comics
www.chicagocomics.com

Comic Oasis
www.shop.comicoasis.com

Comicopia
www.comicopia.com

CornerStoreComics
www.cornerstorecomics.com

Earth-2 Comics
www.facebook.com/Earth2Comics

Fantasy Books and Games
www.fantasybooksinc.com/

Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff
FlyingColorsComics.com

Keith’s Comics
www.facebook.com/keithscomics

Laughing Ogre Comics
www.laughingogrecomics.com

Local Heroes
www.localheroescomics.com

Main Street Comics
www.facebook.com/mainstreetcomics

More Fun Comics
www.facebook.com/morefuncomics

Secret Headquarters
www.thesecretheadquarters.com

Speeding Bullet Comics
www.speedingbulletcomics.com

Star Clipper
www.facebook.com/StarClipperSTL

Strange Adventures Comix & Curiosities
www.strangeadventures.com

TATE’S Comics
www.tatescomics.com

Artist Mike Holmes will be signing copies at the Halifax branch of Strange Adventures on Saturday, Dec. 1st from 11-noon!

November news and nonsense

The creative team behind the hit new comic-book series, Bravest Warriors, will be signing copies at Strange Adventures in Halifax on Saturday, Nov. 10th from 2 to 4 PM! Drop by and meet writer Joey Comeau and artist Mike Holmes! We might even have some treats, too!

all kinds of good deals to be had at your local Strange Adventures comic-book shops! Fredericton has a board game sale on now! Dartmouth has stacks of comics, graphic novels, and toys for 50% off! and Halifax has some very sweet deals on select graphic novels as seen in the photo. EC Annuals for five bucks! Understanding Comics for five bucks! We keep adding more stuff all the time, so get yourself into your nearest Strange Adventures and check them out!

Here’s a shot of the Dartmouth mural as it grows ever closer to completion. The famous and fabulous Lockerbie boys have been working on it when time and weather permits!

if you haven’t seen Field Notes, do yourself a favour and do so. They’re very convenient and durable notebooks available in plain, graph and ruled paper, perfect pocket-size and in many stylish colours. The newest addition to the family is “The Traveling Salesman” in a thick brown cover with ledger-style sheets inside. Packs of three for $9.95 and available at all Strange Adventures locations!

and finally in news, we have restocked our tote bags! Modelled here by the fashionable yet deadly Nathan Boone, they’re made of black cotton, long handles, and the world-famous Strange Adventures symbol designed by Signalnoise. Only five bones! Did I already say it makes a great gift?

Coming soon: a bigger sale in Dartmouth, more deals, lots of great comic-books and hopefully many more Strange Adventures!

sale in Dartmouth this weekend! Adventure Time cartoonist signing!

drop by the Dartmouth Strange Adventures today or tomorrow and grab a FREE comic or graphic novel! And we have shelves full of half-price graphic novels and comics! Action figures on half-price too!

AND Mike Holmes, the cartoonist behind The Coast’s True Story and Invisible Publishings This American Drive, will be here at 2PM to sign copies of the Adventure Time comics that feature his work!

Strange Adventures Dartmouth-Medium

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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X-men artist in Fredericton and other poop

Wolverine & The X-Men artist, Nick Bradshaw, will be at Fredericton’s Strange Adventures on Saturday, June 30th! Drop by and say hi and get your comics signed! We’ll have lots of extra copies of Nick’s work as well as some cool posters and prints!

Nick has worked on many different series over the years including Army of Darkness, Astonishing X-men and Danger Girl as well as being a very popular cover artist!

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2012 is Strange Adventures’ 20th Anniversary and we’ll be having spotlight deals on various items throughout the year so be sure to follow us on twitter or join our Facebook group or just drop in to your local Strange Adventures and ask about any specials we have going on! (as an example, Justice League and Justice Society trade paperbacks are 20% off at the Halifax store!)

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The CW network has a preview of the upcoming ARROW

television series based on DC’s GREEN ARROW. Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaq6S_Hcwn4&feature=player_embedded

The clip introduces Katie Cassidy, who will play Dinah Laurel
Lance (aka Black Canary), in the new series.

CW’s Arrow will debut in October in a prime Wednesday
night spot as a lead-in the Supernatural. Arrow will air at
8pm Eastern / 9pm Atlantic.

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Minutemen #1 is out now and it’s very good – would make a fine Father’s Day gift since your Dad may have read Watchmen when it originally came out in 1986! You could even get him a subscription at your friendly neighbourhood comic book store!

Fiona Staples, artist on Saga, appearing in Halifax

If you’ve been reading good comics, you’re probably familiar with the work of Fiona Staples. North 40, The Mystery Society, to name a couple, and the lastest, Saga; a science-fiction hit series from Image Comics co-created with Bryan K Vaughan of Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina fame!

Fiona will be at the Halifax store on Saturday, May 26th from 2 to 4pm. Bring your copies of Saga and get’em signed! We’ll also have a FREE print for the first 50 people!

And, like the Hinterland Who’s Who of our youth, to find out more about the Fiona Staples, check out her blog at fiona staples dot com

Meet the comic book makers!

Saturday, May 12th, is a busy day at Strange Adventures in Halifax!

From noon to 2PM, cartoonist Mike Holmes will be signing copies of his new book, Mikenesses, as well as the Adventure Time comic from Free Comic Book Day which he illustrated! More info on the Facebook event here: Meet cartoonist Mike Holmes at Strange Adventures!

From 2 to 4PM another comic book creator arrives in the shape of Jim Zub! Jim has worked with UDON Studios for many years, has written Street Fighter comics, the Makeshift Miracle graphic novel (new hardcover will debut this Saturday!) and is currently writing the hit Image comic book series, SKULLKICKERS! Jim and artist Edwin Huang make SKULLKICKERS the comic book equivalent of a particularly drunken Dungeons & Dragons session. A fast-paced, freewheeling mash-up of action, fantasy, comedy, and Spaghetti Western, this series follows the misadventures of a pair of freelance tough guys–a bald giant and a red-bearded dwarf–as they hack, slash, punch, and kick their way through a medieval fantasy world. It helps if, as the giant does, you wield what appears to be this world’s only firearm, a solid-gold cannon of a six-shooter. After witnessing a political assassination and vowing to track down the killer, the death-dealing duo becomes embroiled in a massive conspiracy involving necromancers, zombies, an elvish assassin, and the most murderous fairies ever depicted on the comic page. There’s also a talking squirrel named Nutski, a subplot involving the dwarf’s leg becoming demon-possessed and repeatedly kicking him in the ass (shades of EVIL DEAD II), and a giant plant monster that threatens to devour an entire town and everyone in it. In addition to the single issues (14 so far), SKULLKICKERS is also available in two paperback collections, “1000 Opas and a Dead Body” and “Five Funerals and a Bucket Of Blood”. And for the deluxe edition connoisseur, there’s the “Treasure Trove Edition”, an oversized hardback containing the first 11 issues plus a variety of extras including bonus short stories, fantasy RPG stats for the two leads, character designs, and a recipe for “Skullkicker Stew”! If you miss this one, you’ll kick yourself.

Meet writer & cartoonist Jim Zub at Strange Adventures!

Hot on the heels of her appearance at the Toronto Comics Art Festival last weekend, our very own Kate Leth unleashes this brand-spankin’ new compilation that includes a selection of material previously seen in the sold-out KATE OR DIE #1-3 as well as brand new comics & illustrations seeing print here for the very first time! Come by this Saturday to pick it up as well as get it signed!

See you Saturday!

GIRLS, CUPCAKES & COMICS

The latest Ladies Night event seemed to go very well according to all involved.

Jay, the manager at the Fredericton Strange Adventures reported, “As you’ve seen on the Twitters & the Facebooks, Ladies’ Night went over swimmingly! The lineup before opening went past Peter Roberts! I visited a couple times (just outside looking in) and the place was packed almost the entire time and everyone seemed to have a great time.

Pictured on the right are more cupcakes. I think these were made by Kelly, intrepid Strange staff member. They look great! (Another swiped
photo from Kate’s instagram:

http://instagr.am/p/I2kb6hncVq/)

We’ll hopefully have some more pics soon.
Thanks to all who attended and the ladies (and a couple of boys) who put the event together!

Some great photos are here on the facebook event page!