Sunday, May 19: Drama by Raina Telgemeier Book Club!

Posted by Neal at 10:44 pm Store Events

May 152013

Yay! This Sunday, May 19, from 2pm to 3:30pm, is our next Chapel Hill Comics Book Club Meeting!

We’ll be discussing Raina Telgemeier’s Drama, which is suitable for readers young and old! Here are some reviews, taken from Raina’s website:

Reviews

★ The author follows up her award-winning graphic novel Smile with another dead-on look at the confusing world of middle school, sweetly capturing all the drama swirling around the school production. . . . Should be eagerly devoured by her many fans.
–Publishers Weekly, starred review

★ With the clear, stylish art, the strongly appealing characters and just the right pinch of drama, this book will undoubtedly make readers stand up and cheer. Brava!
–Kirkus, starred review

★ In this realistic and sympathetic story, feelings and thoughts leap off the page, revealing Telgemeier’s keen eye for young teen life.
–Booklist, starred review

★ An entertaining and enlightening read.
–School Library Journal, starred review

Telgemeier draws up-by-their-book-bags characters who value hard work and seize a chance that has nothing to do with looks or even with love. . . . The better Telgemeier’s books sell, the less hand-wringing to do over the next generation. If this is what the youth of America are into, the kids are all right.
–New York Times Book Review

Hilarious. . . . Telgemeier’s graphic artist skills make this novel a pleasure to read and re-read.
–Horn Book

Raina Telgemeier delivers a star turn with her graphic novel follow-up to Smile, with this tale of Callie and her middle-grade drama (double entendre intended). Encore!
–Shelf Awareness

Please try to make it out for this edition of Chapel Hill Comics Book Club!
Book Club: Drama by Raina Telgemeier!
Sunday, May 19, 2pm.
Facebook event here!

Lisa Hanawalt signs My Dirty Dumb Eyes on Saturday, June 29, from 6pm-9pm!

Posted by Neal at 4:19 pm Store Events

May 032013

Whoa whoa whoa you guys! Chapel Hill Comics is proud to announce that as part of our 10th/35th Anniversary Festivities, we will host Lisa Hanawalt on Saturday, June 29, from 6pm until 9pm, when she will sign her new book, My Dirty Dumb Eyes!

We are super-excited about this one. Store owner Andrew Neal’s favorite publication last year was Lisa’s mini-comic Sell Your Boobs. She’s really funny, man. You want to see some funny stuff she has done? OK. Here are some links for you.

Here’s an illustrated review of War Horse that she did for Hairpin.

How about this thing called The Secret Lives of Chefs, which she did for Lucky Peach?

Or heck, just visit her website (which is probably NSFW if you work at a place that doesn’t like you to look at superhero nudity at work).

Plus, check out what Slate said about the book (full review here):

…Lisa Hanawalt’s first book is out this month. It’s called My Dirty Dumb Eyes and it is exactly as weird, obscene, hilarious, and gross as you might expect. It is awash in penises, butts, poop, and pudenda. It features talking anthropomorphic horses and birds that fart out of the tops of their heads.

I hope we don’t need to convince you to come to this event. It’s going to be great, and if you don’t make it, you will probably regret it for a considerable amount of time. There will be more information posted soon!

(images on this page taken from Drawn & Quarterly)

MY DUMB DIRTY EYES SIGNING
With Lisa Hanawalt
Saturday, June 29, 6pm-9pm
Chapel Hill Comics
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Saturday, June 8: Tom Batiuk will sign FUNKY WINKERBEAN!

Posted by Neal at 11:57 pm Store Events

Apr 302013

Chapel Hill Comics is proud to announce that as part of our 10th/35th Anniversary Festivities, we will host Tom Batiuk on Saturday, June 8, from 2pm until 4pm, when he will sign The Complete Funky Winkerbean books one and two!

From Comic Book Resources:

For more than four decades, Tom Batiuk’s “Funky Winkerbean” has been a fixture in the comics page of newspapers nationwide. Initially set in high school centered around a group of students and a handful of teachers and employees — including the secretary who actually ran the school and Harry L. Dinkle, the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest band director.” In 1992, Batiuk relaunched the strip, jumping forward in time, something he did again in 2007.

During this time Batiuk has received both praise and criticism for combining dramatic and comedic elements and tackling issues ranging from bullying to teen pregnancy to cancer and death. In 2007, Batiuk was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for “”Lisa’s Story”,” a story arc in which the character succumbed to cancer. In addition to his work on “Funky,” from 1979-1990 Batiuk wrote the strip “John Darling” and since 1987 has been writing “Crankshaft” for his former classmate Chuck Ayers to draw.

Come meet the creator of one of the nation’s most recognizable comic strips!

Tom Batiuk, Creator of Funky Winkerbean
Saturday, June 8, 2-4pm
Chapel Hill Comics
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Click here if you want to RSVP at the Facebook page for the event (not required)!

We will have the following books in stock for the event:

Complete Funky Winkerbean, volume 1, $45.

Complete Funky Winkerbean, volume 2, $45.

Lisa's Story, $18.95.

Saturday, June 1: Mur Lafferty will sign The Shambling Guide to New York City!

Posted by Neal at 10:54 pm Store Events

Apr 302013

Chapel Hill Comics is proud to announce that as part of our 10th/35th Anniversary Festivities, we will host a release party for Mur Lafferty’s new book, The Shambling Guide to New York City! The event will be from 7pm until 9pm on Saturday, June 1. What’s the book about? Here you go:

A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city – for the undead!

Because of the disaster that was her last job, Zoe is searching for a fresh start as a travel book editor in the tourist-centric New York City. After stumbling across a seemingly perfect position though, Zoe is blocked at every turn because of the one thing she can’t take off her resume — human.

Not to be put off by anything — especially not her blood drinking boss or death goddess coworker — Zoe delves deep into the monster world. But her job turns deadly when the careful balance between human and monsters starts to crumble — with Zoe right in the middle.

We’ll have copies of the book on hand, and we’d love you to come down and meet the author! This is a prose novel, not a comic, though it does sport a fantastic cover by noted comic artist Jamie McKelvie!

Plus, check it out: the book is already getting good reviews! Publisher’s Weekly listed The Shambling Guide as one of the best summer books of 2013!

Mur Lafferty is an author and podcaster based in Durham, NC. She is the host of the I Should Be Writing podcast and a two time John W. Campbell Award nominee.

Release Party: The Shambling Guide to New York City
With Author Mur Lafferty
Saturday, June 1, 7pm-9pm
Chapel Hill Comics
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Here is the Facebook Page for the event if you want to RSVP (not required)!

ALL STAR-SUPERMAN Book Club meets Sunday, April 28 from 2-3:30pm!

Posted by Neal at 4:00 pm Comics, Store Events

Apr 162013

All right! Next Sunday, April 28, from 2pm until 3:30pm is our next book club meeting! This time, Alicia will host a discussion on Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely’s All Star Superman!

If you don’t have a copy, we are scheduled to receive a big shipment on Friday, April 19, so we’ll have them available!

Click here for the Facebook event if you would like to RSVP or invite your friends!

“Written by GRANT MORRISON. Art and cover by FRANK QUITELY. The complete 12-issue run of ALL-STAR SUPERMAN by Morrison and Quitely is collected in a single trade paperback! Witness the Man of Steel in exciting adventures featuring Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Bizarro, and more! Plus: Superman goes toe-to-toe with Bizarro, his oddball twin, and the new character Zibarro, also from the Bizarro planet.”