Chapel Hill Comics is a proudly independent, locally-owned bookstore which specializes in comics and graphic novels. We’re the oldest comic book specialty store in the triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, NC). We carry a wide variety of comics, graphic novels, books, and gifts.
“Chapel Hill Comics continues to be the best, most welcoming, and most accommodating of any book store, geek-focused or otherwise, in the Triangle.”
- A very kind anonymous commenter at Indyweek.com
Chapel Hill Comics is proud to announce our next signing event:
On Saturday, May 26, from 1pm until 3pm, Writer Jeremy Whitley will be signing the new collection of his comic Princeless! We will also give a FREE poster of the Princeless banner (see below) to the first 25 people who buy a copy of the book!
Princeless is the story of Princess Adrienne, one princess who’s tired of waiting to be rescued. Join Adrienne and her guardian dragon, Sparky, as they begin their own quest in an all-ages action adventure designed specifically for those who are tired of waiting to be rescued… and who are ready to save themselves.
Princeless has been nominated for two 2012 Eisner Awards:
Best Single Issue (or One-Shot) for Princeless #3, by Jeremy Whitley and M. Goodwin (Action Lab)
Best Publication for Kids (ages 8-12) for Princeless, by Jeremy Whitley and M. Goodwin (Action Lab)
Princeless has also been nominated for five 2012 Glyph Awards, which honor the best in comics’ portrayal of African-Americans:
Story of the Year for Princeless, Jeremy Whitley, writer, M. Goodwin, artist
Best Writer for Jeremy Whitley, Princeless
Best Artist for M. Goodwin, Princeless
Best Female Character for Adrienne, Princeless; created by Jeremy Whitley, writer, and M. Goodwin, artist
Best Cover for Princeless #1, M. Goodwin, illustrator
Please come on out and bring your kids! You can pick up a copy of the Princeless paperback, get it signed, and ask Jeremy about making comics! It should be a lot of fun!
Princeless Signing with Jeremy Whitley
Saturday, May 26, 1pm until 3pm
Chapel Hill Comics
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 5, and Chapel Hill Comics will once again give away lots and lots of Free Comics!
Here’s what we’ll be giving away this year!
FCBD 2012 ATOMIC ROBO & FRIENDS
FCBD 2012 AVENGERS #12.1
FCBD 2012 BAD MEDICINE #1
FCBD 2012 BARNABY
FCBD 2012 BONGO FREE-FOR-ALL / SPONGEBOB FREESTYLE
FCBD 2012 BUFFY THE GUILD
FCBD 2012 DC COMICS THE NEW 52 SPECIAL ED
FCBD 2012 DC NATION SUPERMAN FAMILY FLIP BOOK
FCBD 2012 FINDING GOSSAMYR STUFF OF LEGEND
FCBD 2012 IMAGE 20
FCBD 2012 MARBLE SEASON
FCBD 2012 MEGA MAN
FCBD 2012 MOOMIN COLOR SPECIAL
FCBD 2012 MOUSE GUARD LABYRINTH & MORE HC
FCBD 2012 PEANUTS ADVENTURE TIME FLIPBOOK
FCBD 2012 SMURFS & DISNEY FAIRIES FEAT TINKER BELL
FCBD 2012 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
FCBD 2012 SPIDER-MAN SEASON ONE
FCBD 2012 STAR WARS SERENITY
FCBD 2012 TOP SHELF KIDS CLUB
FCBD 2012 TRANSFORMERS #80.5
FCBD 2012 VALIANT PREVIEW
FCBD 2012 WALT DISNEYS DONALD DUCK FAMILY COMICS
FCBD 2012 YO GABBA GABBA FREE COMIC BOOK TIME
As well as the following items which are not produced specifically for FCBD:
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO SPECIAL #1
SECRET INVASION FRONT LINE TRADE PAPERBACK (NORMALLY $14.99)
STAND AMERICAN NIGHTMARES PREMIUM HARDCOVER (NORMALLY $24.99)
Plus, fantastic artist Thomas Boatwright (Zeke Deadwood, Zombie Lawman; Cemetery Blues; Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom) will be on hand doing free brush sketches from 11am until 4pm! Thomas was here for last year’s event and was a big hit! Here are some of his pieces from last year:
Plus, we’ll probably find some other stuff to give away as well!
Want to let us know you’re coming, or invite your friends? Click here for our Facebook Event Page!
Here’s the calendar information:
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2012, starting at 11am
CHAPEL HILL COMICS
316 W FRANKLIN ST
CHAPEL HILL, NC 27516
We hope to see you then!
It’s time for the Independent Weekly’s Annual Best of the Triangle Awards, and that means it’s time to vote for your favorite local businesses! We’ve won the Best Comic Book Store category every year since they introduced it, and we’d love to win it again. Why does it mean so much to us to win? We get new customers every year who find out about the store because of the Best of the Triangle issue, so you are helping us a lot when you vote for us.
Click here to vote! You have until April 15. We are on page 4 of the survey. You don’t have to fill out the whole thing, but you do fill out at least 20 categories for your vote to be counted. Thank you so much.
Andrew Neal, Owner
Chapel Hill Comics
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Chapel Hill Comics is proud to announce that we will be hosting John Porcellino on Wednesday, March 14, from 5pm until 7pm! John will sign his zines and books, and will do a slideshow and question and answer session, so bring all your questions about self-publishing!
JOHN PORCELLINO was born in Chicago, in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, a collection of King-Cat stories about Porcellino’s experiences as a pest control worker, won an Ignatz Award in 2005, and Perfect Example, first published in 2000, chronicles his struggles with depression as a teenager. King-Cat Classix and Map of My Heart, published in 2007/2009, offer a comprehensive overview of the zine’s first sixty-one issues, while Thoreau at Walden (2008) is a poetic expression of the great philosopher’s experience and ideals. According to cartoonist Chris Ware, “John Porcellino’s comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive.”
