FCBD SPECIAL GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT!  Artist/Animator BOBBY RUBIO Scheduled to sign at Flying Colors on Saturday May 4 for Free Comic Book Day! Bobby Rubio is a highly accomplished Animation Artist with work for Pixar, Disney, Nickelodeon and Paramount Animation. He is currently the Story Supervisor on "Transformers One" for Paramount Animation. Among Bobby's notable projects are the Peabody-nominated animated Pixar short "Float" for which he was the Writer and Director. He served as Story Artist on "Inside Out," "Up," "Incredibles 2" and "Brave." For "Avatar the Last Airben ..read more

 April 5, 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact: Joe Field Flying Colors Comics joe@flyingcolorscomics.com 925-825-5410 FREE COMIC BOOK DAY AT FLYING COLORS COMICS MAY 4! The Final Free Comic Book Day Event at its Founding Location Free Comic Book Day Features Comics for Everyone!   Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff in Concord CA celebrates the biggest day in the comics, Saturday, May 4 with Free Comic Book Day. Now in its 23rd year, Free Comic Book Day is the World's Largest Comic Book related event and was founded by Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff pr ..read more

Please join us at Flying Colors for another fantastic New Releases Day on Wednesday March 6 at 11AM as we welcome back FlyCo Hall of Fave member and stellar artist LIAM SHARP! Thanks to our friends at Alien Books/Valiant Comics we will have a limited number of FREE copies of X-O MANOWAR for Liam to sign for you. Plus he'll have some good stories to share, as well as advance looks at his upcoming artwork. Make plans to be here! We've Got Your Cool Stuff Right Here in Flying Colors ..read more

  DEAL ALERT!! Among this week's New Releases is the BATMAN DETECTIVE COMICS Gotham Nocturne Act 1 Hardcover. Regularly priced at $29.99, you can get it this week at Flying Colors for only $19.99... or Get it FREE with a $100 pre-tax purchase! Every week, we post of list of New Releases here: https://flyingcolorscomics.blogspot.com/.../new-this-week ..read more

FREE Comic Book Day @ Flying Colors Comics Saturday May 4 (May the 4th be With You!) FREE Comic Book Day is the World's Largest Comic Book Event and it was founded right here at Flying Colors! FCBD is always lots of fun, but FCBD 2024 may be a little bittersweet, as it will be the final Free Comic Book Day at the shop were it was founded. We hope you'll plan to be here, for the thousands of comics we'll give away for FREE, to the amazing cosplayers (maybe one of them will be you if you come in costume)... and there will be more announcements to come so stay in touch! TELL US YOU'RE COMING TO ..read more

At the start of every New Year, I take a look back to see what’s working and what’s not working in the hopes of improving our shop here. As many of you already know, 2024 will be a year of BIG changes for Flying Colors. Our current lease expires in January 2025 and that will mean that Flying Colors will not be in Concord’s Oak Grove Plaza after that. In the weeks and months ahead, we  (and by ‘we’ I mean Libby and me along with our family and our FlyCo Retailing Brigade, as well as some of FlyCo Faithful) will be discussing options for the future of Flying Colors Comics. A move to a di ..read more

 A Tale of Two Lists! Let's start with Flying Colors Best-Selling Comics for 2023. To be honest, it wasn't worth doing a long detailed chart of the Top 100 or Top 50 because the list of best-selling comics at Flying Colors in 2023 was absolutely dominated by two titles--- BATMAN and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. However, there were also welcome surprises! The two biggest sales surprises of 2023 are VOID RIVALS and TRANSFORMERS from Skybound/Hasbro. The emergence of the Energon Universe has been nothing short of a fan favorite. Here's a little factoid: TRANSFORMERS from Skybound is outselling t ..read more

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We're thrilled to announce a very Special Event at Flying Colors Comics! Sunday February 11 at 3PM, meet KAZU KIBUISHI, the creator/writer/artist of the phenomenally popular AMULET series. Kazu will be here soon after the release of AMULET 9: WAVERIDER,  the long-awaited conclusion to the best-selling fantasy series! Kazu Kibuishi is the creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling AMULET series. He is also the creator of Copper, a collection of his popular webcomic that features an adventuresome boy-and-dog pair. Kazu was also behind the popular anthology series, Flight and Explorer. A ..read more

During the course of the last year, ICV2.com, the comics business-oriented site, has published a series of articles about the history and the players in comics' Direct Market. Former DC Publisher Paul Levitz filed his thoughts about The Direct Market HERE! One of my comics retailing mentors and dearly departed friends, the Big Kahuna, Bill Liebowitz of Los Angeles' Golden Apple shops was featured HERE!  And now, it's my turn. Read the feature/interview HERE! Honestly, when compared to so many others who helped lay the groundwork for this little industry, the comics specialty retail ma ..read more