Chapel Hill Comics is very happy to announce that for the third year in a row, we were voted Best Comic Book Store in the Triangle by the readers of the Independent Weekly! Thanks again for all your support!  Since 2007 was the first year they added the category to the awards, we’ve won every year!  Wow!

Here’s a link to their list:
Best of the Triangle 2009!

We’re in the Goods and Services section. If you pick up a paper copy of the Independent, which came out Wednesday, June 10, and should be out through Tuesday, June 16, you’ll see that an image of Chapel Hill Comics was used as the header for the Goods and Services section. Very cool!

Thanks once again for all you support, not just at Best of the Triangle Voting time, but throughout the year!

WOOOOO,
Andrew Neal
Chapel Hill Comics
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Chapel Hill Comics is proud to announce a drawing for free tickets to one of this weekend’s finest entertainment opportunities.  MC CHRIS will be appearing at the Cat’s Cradle in lovely Carrboro, North Carolina, this Saturday, February 21, as part of the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival!

He’ll be appearing twice, the Saturday, February 21, 2009.  The first set at 8pm is a comedy set featuring Death by Roo Roo, The Beatbox, and MC CHRIS, and the second set at 11pm is an MC CHRIS show!  That’s two fantastic comedy shows.  What do you have to do to get these tickets?  Just come to the store and fill out a slip!  We’ll draw the names of two lucky folks, and each of them will receive passes for two to both shows!  These tickets go for $25 each, so that’s a $50 value for you if you win!

8:00 pm — Cat’s Cradle, February 21, 2009.

• Death by Roo Roo [New York, NY, USA]
• The Beatbox [Chicago, IL, USA]
• MC CHRIS [New York City, NY, USA]

11:00 pm — Cat’s Cradle, February 21, 2009.

• MC CHRIS [New York City, NY, USA]

We’ll be giving away two sets of two tickets each to two lucky winners.  All you have to do is come into the store - that’s Chapel Hill Comics at 316 West Franklin Street - and fill out a form with your name and number, and your email address if you want to be added to our email newsletter.  You gotta be 18 to enter the drawing, and you can enter once per day.  There is no purchase required! We’ll do the drawing sometime Friday evening, at which point we’ll call the lucky winners and let them know.

Come on down to the shop and register!

Please investigate further here:

• North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival
• mc chris
• mc chris videoblog ad for the show
• Death by Roo Roo
• The Beatbox
  

Thanks,
Andrew Neal
Chapel Hill Comics
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Holy Cow! All the preparations for our big move kept me from announcing that Chapel Hill Comics was a finalist for the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award!

The Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award is an annual, international award given to an individual retailer who has done an outstanding job of supporting the comics art medium both in the community and within the industry at large. It’s given each year at the San Diego Comic Con. All of the finalists this year were fantastic choices and could easily have been the winner. We’re proud to have been included!

LINKS
Click Here for the ComicsPRO page congratulating Brave New World and listing the other finalists!
Click Here for the Spirit Award’s official page.

LINKS TO THE FINALISTS
Brave New World Comics - Santa Clarita, California (Atom! and Portlyn Freeman, owners) (This year’s winner)
Casablanca Comics - Portland, Maine (Rick Lowell and Laura O’Meara, owners)
Chapel Hill Comics - Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Andrew Neal, owner)
Happy Harbor Comics - Edmonton, Alberta (Shawna Roe and Jay Bardyla, owners)
Rocketship - Brooklyn, New York (Alex Cox and Mary Gibbons, owners)
Tate’s Comics - Lauderhill, Flordia (Tate Ottati, owner)

Our slide at the Award Ceremony!

Thanks,
Andrew Neal
Chapel Hill Comics
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

We’re proud to announce that we were voted Best Comic Book Store in the Triangle for the second year in a row at the Independent Weekly’s Best of 2008 Awards!

Thanks for your votes, everyone!

Thanks,
Andrew Neal
Chapel Hill Comics
412 W Franklin St
(Soon to be 316 W Franklin St)
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

We won!

Click Here to read all of the Independent Weekly’s Best of the Triangle Awards!

I just wanted to send out a big thank you to everyone who voted for us in the Independent’s Best of the Triangle 2007 Awards! We just checked out today’s Independent and we were listed as the winner for Best Comic Book Store!

So once again, thank you for your votes. Also, thanks to the Independent for adding the “Best Comic Book Store” category to the polls this year!

Thanks again,
Andrew Neal
Chapel Hill Comics