The best place in lansing to pick up new comics every week, back issues, graphic novels, and other comicrelated merchandise. The best 10 comic books in lansing, mi last updated. The cata bus system serves east lansing, providing numerous connections to points around the neighborhood. Visit us by appointment or see us at shows around the country.
Originally started in a basement in 1969, the store has since expanded to three floors of over 50,000 wellorganized books, magazines, and other paper items. It is the largest library comic book collection in the world. Starts at 12am sat couch collectables online auction. Archives book shop in east lansing archives book shop 519 w. Hollow mountain comics llc 815 northlawn ave east lansing. But ebooks and amazon have made it more difficult for the independent, and even the big box. Curious book shop is a used and rare book store located in downtown east lansing.
A sister to curious books in east lansing, the arvhives is much small and cozier. Sep 02, 2010 archives book shop of east lansing, mi. As vp of entrepreneurship and innovation for the leap and president of the lansing proto accelerator, willis. Archives book shop east lansing, mi book store in east. If youre looking for a hard to find back issue, we probably have it. Capital city comic con po box 4345 east lansing, mi 488264345. Clems collectibles in downtown lansing is another favorite haunt of claytors, and even sells some of his collected and then one days comics. As vp of entrepreneurship and innovation for the leap and president of. While the bulk of the collection is made up of american comic books, it also includes over 1,000 books of collected newspaper comic strips, nearly 15,000 comics from other countries, and several thousand books and periodicals about the subject.
Lansing michigan show march 25th comic events cgc comic. Established in 2002, free comic book day is an annual event arranged by the. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Reinking comics, graphic novels, and anime, whaley explores graphic novel production and comic book fandom. East lansings 21st century comics and games showcases claytors student signing event, and he loves the stores offerings of both mainstream and alternative comics.
I thought this place would be a decent comic book store in the midst of the city of lansing. Politowski games llc east lansing, mi business information. Hollow mountain comics llc 815 northlawn ave east lansing mi 48823. Capital city comic con will be held on september 11th12th, 2020, at the summit sports and ice complex in dimondale, michigan, just outside lansing. Its very rare i ever leave without something in hand. Sep 16, 2016 lansing and east lansing, at one time, were home to many bookstores, some with several locations. In closing, the msu comics forum committee and i would like to thank the 2020 msu comics forum sponsors for allowing all the events associated with the msu comics forum to remain free and open to the public, the many comics artists and scholars who have helped create our most ambitious programming roster to date, the attendees who continue to. We offer modern, bronze age, silver age, and golden age comics. Lansing area comic book and comic art collector dan frazier will display 10 of his original drawings at the store. We take great pride in supplying books to the community everything from recent paperbacks to scarce. Most of these items are american comic books, but also included are over 1,000 books of collected newspaper comic strips, over 50,000 international comic. Check and update your company profile or add your business now.
He references films such as sin city, v for vendetta and 300 as examples of comic book stories that have. Parking in east lansing can be a challenge, particularly on weekdays near campus. A movie is being filmed in riverdale and its based on a popular romance novel by olivia smithingtonjamesdont know who that is. With over 5,000 science fiction paperbacks and magazines, rare books behind the counter, and vintage comic books, curious caters to all kinds of curious learners. What began as motown komix, on michigan states campus in east lansing, mi grew into blank komix as i traveled from florida to colorado to new jersey to pennsylvania and from new york to cali.
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