Welcome to the Chapel Hill Comics Old Timey Picture Parade! Within these hallowed halls reside photos which should have been posted on our website over the course of the last year but for various legitimate reasons (i.e. naptime, Dracula, thinking about kittens) they were not.  Apologies all around.  We do believe that the onslaught of magnificence will make up for the tardiness, however, and we will make every attempt to avoid this nonsense in the future.  Thank you very much.  Just click on the titles to see photographs related to:

August 2008: MOVING THE STORE PART 1

August 2008: MOVING THE STORE PART 2

August 2008: MOVING THE STORE PART 3

August 2008: MOVING THE STORE PART 4

August 2008: MOVING THE STORE PART 5

October 2008: HALLOWEEN!

December 2008: ANNUAL KIDS’ ART SHOW

January 2009: HAVE YOU SEEN OUR AWESOME BATHROOM WALL?

January 2009: SNOW ON FRANKLIN STREET ON INAUGURATION DAY

February 2009: MUR LAFFERTY SIGNING

March 2009: KEN MARCUS SIGNING

May 2009: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

May 2009: KIDS’ CONCERT WITH KATHERINE WHALEN AND WILLIAM DAWSON

June 2009: URSULA VERNON SIGNING

We hope you enjoy the pictures!

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

In June of 2009, we hosted Ursula Vernon for a signing of her new book, Dragonbreath, as well as one of her previous books, Nurk. Holy cow, Ursula has a big fan base, and folks drove in from far away to attend.  I ordered an awful lot of books for this signing and wound up selling out to the last person who arrived 10 minutes before the end of the event, which means I have now ordered books for an event perfectly once!  AWESOME.

Ursula has more books in the Dragonbreath series on the way, so expect to see more of her a Chapel Hill Comics!

Attention: These photos were not taken by the staff at Chapel Hill Comics.  They were taken by guests of the event who were glad enought to send them our way, and I would like to credit them.  If you know who took these pictures, please email with their information!

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

On to the next installment of the Old-Timey Picture Parade!

In May of 2009, we were lucky enough to host William Dawson (of The Alcazar Hotel) and Katherine Whalen (of Squirrel Nut Zippers and Katherine Whalen’s Jazz Squad) for a kids’ concert.  The show was lots of fun.  William made balloon animals for the kids before they started, and they folks singing along to the classics as well as original kids’ songs!

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

Free Comic Book Day falls on the first Saturday of May every year.  This year was Chapel Hill Comics’ most highly attended Free Comic Book Day by about a hundred people.  It was a remarkable success, even beyond the regular remarkable successes of Free Comic Book Day.

I didn’t get a ton of photos, as I had to put down my camera and work pretty quickly.  Thanks to everyone who came out and picked up Free Comics, and especially to those folks who discovered the store on Free Comic Book Day and have come back since.

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

Here’s the next installment in our Old-Timey Picture Parade.  In March of 2009, Ken Marcus made the trip to the store to promote his comic, Super Human Resources, which is about the HR department of a superhero-run company.  The signing was a lot of fun, and we turned a lot of folks onto the series, which is very entertaining!  Thanks for coming, Ken, and thanks for coming, folks who picked up a copy of Super Human Resources!

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

Here’s the next installment in our Old-Timey Photo Parade.  In February of 2009, we were happy to host a signing with local author Mur Lafferty, for her book Playing for Keeps. What’s that you say? “That’s not a comic book, and you’re a comic book store?” Well, that’s true, but regardless of the medium, we like to support our local creators by partying down with them. Check it out! Here’s Mur’s website if you’re interested in learning more about her stuff: http://murverse.com/

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

Inauguration Day was also Snow Day in Chapel Hill!  We were open for business, and despite the snow and the fact that everyone’s attention was on the TV or the computer or the Star Trek communicator or whatever you kids are using, we did a brisk business.  What a pretty day!

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

So you may not know that our bathroom wall is TOTALLY INTERACTIVE.  It’s painted with chalkboard paint, so you can totally draw on the wall!  Here are some shots from before we cleaned the walls for the first time.  What’s in there now?  Come and see!

Here’s a link to a big version of the image if you can’t read it here: link!

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

Here’s the next installment in our Old Timey Picture Parade, where we’re posting the images which got lost in my hard drive for a year!  These are images from the opening for our annual kids art show.  The art show happens every December, and is always a lot of fun.  Please enjoy the images!

Fun, fun, fun!

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

From the vaults of time come these terrifying images of ghouls, ghosts, and a tiny little dragon.  A big thanks to everyone who showed up for Halloween 2008 at Chapel Hill Comics!  I promise that Halloween 2009 pictures will go up, uh, actually in 2009.  How embarrassing.  I think I’ll be quiet and let the costumes do the talking.  Please enjoy:

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